Skip to main content

Snow Day!!!!!

When there's tons of hype, we get no snow.  When we are told that there's not going to be anymore than a dusting, we get a day off of school!!

Today didn't start out so fabulously.  A snow day meant Caleb had to come with Abby and me to the genetics appointment.  I got an early start to allow for slow travel this morning.  It was a good thing, because it took me twice as long to get out of the county as normal.  (Am I the only one who has landmarks to check my time?  Ie:  out of the county within 30 minutes, get to rt 665 an hour before my scheduled appointment, enter Baltimore City within 20 minutes, etc.  Is that weird?!)  The roads in the southern end of the county were really not so good.  It got significantly better the farther north I got, so I was able to drive closer to the speed limit by the time I got to the county border.

We had just left the county when I heard Caleb yell, "Uh oh!  Uh oh!"  I pulled over, but not quickly enough.  He threw up all over himself.  Awesome.

I called Matt, who was going to meet us so that he could take Caleb home while I continued on to the appointment with Abby.  A few minutes later, I got a call from a very frustrated Matt, who got stuck trying to leave our road.  His little car couldn't handle the ice and snow!  I ended up just going all the way home while Matt called the geneticist to reschedule.  I tried my best, but it just wasn't happening today.  Darn...I was really looking forward to going to the geneticist...! :)

So, I go home.  A neighbor pulled Matt out and cleaned off the road so that he could get to work.  Caleb went to his room for about an hour to rest, but my suspicions were confirmed.  When he has an empty stomach, he throws up.  Since he refused to eat dinner last night, he was a little too empty.  New rule:  not eating dinner is not a choice.

Once I realized that he wasn't really sick, I got the snow gear out and the three of us went outside.  That's when the day started to turn around.  :)

Not the "neatest" snow gear ever, but it worked!  I didn't have Caleb's snow gear hand-me-downs because...he is still wearing the 2T snowsuit...#mykidissosmall!

After throwing a few snowballs at each other, the kids meaning me made a tiny little snowman out of the not-so-packable snow.  It was a little too powdery to make it much bigger than that, but they seemed satisfied!  Caleb did a great job making the face out of a carrot, acorns, and a smiley stick!

We have a pull sled that Abby absolutely loved!  I got my exercise pulling her around the backyard as she squealed, "Weeeeeeeeeeee!" for half an hour.  It was pretty stinkin' cute!

I have not perfected the art of loading videos that I downloaded from my phone, so I can't share the videos I have of us sledding in our disc down the hill.  But that's pretty much what Caleb did for over an hour, and Abby loved going down with me.  I even managed to impress Caleb when I went down on my belly.  I got a few cool points, apparently.  :)

Believe it or not, Caleb went in way before Abby was ready to!  I pulled her around on the sled for another 15 minutes or so before I decided it was time for lunch.  I think they'll be ready for round two when Matt gets home, so we can all go out.

I love snow days!!

Comments

Mary Lou said…
Julie....
My Mom drives on landmarks. I would too. Except for the fact that I do not drive!! So. I do everything else on landmarks!! If it is weird, well, then we are all weird!! I know I am!! ;)
Does Caleb get carsick? I do.... And riding on an empty stomach always triggers it!! :-(
A snow day!! What fun!! And. I love, love, love your snowman. He is adorable!! ;-D
--Raelyn

Popular posts from this blog

Cerebrocostomandibular Syndrome

If you happen to pick up the latest Reader's Digest, there is an article in there about Piper Breinholt , a four year old with CCMS.  If you've been around here a while, you'll remember wayyyyyy back when we first received Abby's diagnosis that I was able to speak to Piper's mom, Reagan.  The article is more about their story and not as much about the ins and outs of CCMS, but I think it's probably enough to get some people googling it and I'm hoping a few will end up here. Every once in a while, I give a blog post the title of Cerebrocostomandibular Syndrome so that it would show up in Google.  My ever-present hope is that people will stumble across my blog and 1) be encouraged by the hope we have in Christ, 2) feel a connection with someone in a similar situation as them, or 3) get excited over the miracles that have been performed in Abby's life!!  (a combination of all 3 is great too!)  :)   Notice that it's not to get famous and it never wi

The Potty Man

Caleb LOVES to go potty! I have never heard a potty training story like this one....Caleb tells us when he needs to go, we take his diaper off, and he goes! Now, is it perfect? No, not at all! We aren't trying to potty train at at all, but we figure every time he goes is one less diaper we have to change! The only time we consistantly put him on the potty is when we give him a bath (he always pees in the tub, so we know he needs to go!) He almost always goes on the potty now instead of the tub though. When he's not "really" going potty, he's pretending to go potty! He's such a funny kid!

Lego Party: Favors

I'm a little slow in posting the Lego Party pictures, but I think I have a few excuses I could use.  At any rate, I wanted to share what I did for the party!  It will take a few posts, so stay with me.  I'll start with how I did the favors. These are the goody bags I made.  I just bought solid colored gift bags and matched scrapbook paper to each bag.  Then I punched circles and attached them with the 3D foam tape so that the circles were raised. I used the keychain (explained below) as a name tag on the outside. These are Duplo blocks.  I put a round magnet on the back and...voila!  A magnet!  (note:  hot glue doesn't work so well...I ended up reglueing them with my apoxy because the magnets fell off.) I made crayons using Lego man crayons.  Yes, I know this guy has lost half of his leg.  The others were already packaged and I didn't want to open one up just to get a picture.  I used a Lego mold  to make the crayons.  Caleb put small pieces of crayon in each m