Another Snow Day-Family style

We got hit again with a ton of snow this week. Piper was so jazzed to see 5 inches come falling down and stick to the ground. This meant fun time! Since it snowed so much and the roads were horrible, we opted to stay home for 2 days and enjoy the white wet wonderland. We even got daddy to stay home on Wednesday so we could all play outside.



Piper gets a mouthful of yummy snow on a cold winter day. yummmmA little snow angel- Piper is having fun in the snow!

We don't know of any hills in the area, but since our backyard is big, we got out the sled and mama and papa got some good exercise pulling Piper all over the yard. She thought it was a bunch of fun...mama thought she needed to get into better shape!!!

And of course, the making of a new and bigger snowman was in the mind of papa! We will make him bigger and stronger....

...and give him a mohawk? sure why not! and a feather boa to match. We know how to style out mr..or ms. snow..person.

Piper gives our happy snowperson a quick kiss! how sweeeeeet

Portland Children's Museum

One of the big things I really love about Portland is the amount of family friendly, child oreiented and even animal oriented places to go eat, events, you name it. My favourite alternate radio stations even has a program called 'greasy kid's stuff', which is all kinds of silly, kid oriented songs by all kinds of bands, every saturday morning. We steer our kids in different directions here in Portland. We veer away from the cookie cutter TV generation. We go outside to play, listen to the radio, explore!

We have memberships to OMSI and the Zoo, but had yet to be to the Children's Museum-and were we missing out. Needless to say, we bought a year pass when we left. IT was that good. We missed the 'Baby Loves Disco' at the crystal ballroom- but we will head over next month for that one.

Piper and Mama met Mama's friend Andrea from their Intel days. She brought her Newphew Garrett to the museum and we had so much fun. The kids were worn out completely. After 3 hours of play ending with the Marachi band playing in the children's theatre that Piper was absolutly glued to.

This water play area is three times as big as the one at OMSI, which makes Piper very happy indeed.
Here Piper and new friend Garrett play around in part of the playhouse

What a Look!!!! Little miss Piper is taking a good look at herself before transforming herself with the face paints.

Arrr matey! Watch out for the notorious green beard!

Piper and Garrett get into a little impromto jam session with some other kids at the CM.
Andrea and Garrett show Piper how to make music on the xylophone. pretty music

Snow Day in Portland

Piper and mama were SO excited to see big phat flakes of snow falling down when they woke up this morning. Piper got all bundled up and we headed outside for a bit of playing in the wet white snow. Mama showed Piper how to build a snowman and Piper had fun throwing snowballs at mama (don't know where she learned that one!) By Noon the sun was out, not a cloud in the sky and snow is almost all gone. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.



It's sticking to my mittens!!!Check out my snowman!!!!

bed time routines

As many of you know, since we moved 6 months ago, Piper has refused to sleep in her room in her bed and has made the couch her resting place for naps and bedtime. After trying and failing many times to revert her back into her room for rest, we gave up for a while. After the holiday craziness, we tried again.
We are happy to report that we have had a full week of nap and bedtime sleeping in her own bed again. This is huge! Now we can hang out in the living room and not worry about waking her up at night.
so proud of my girl!