The last weekend of January was lots of fun. The weather was fantastic. It was warm, and snowy. The kind of weather where snow sticks together perfectly.
On Saturday we made a couple of big snow forts in the backyard. L and Dad used doors that we'd pulled out of the basement to construct a fort. The kids and I made a snow fort.
Sunday we went swimming at the local indoor pool with the Sunday School. It's always SO noisy in there, but it's nice and warm. This was one of those times when I really could see progress in G. He managed all the noise just fine, was swimming without a lifejacket, and had no problem jumping into the pool or getting thrown and getting his head underwater. L paddled around the pool in her lifejacket, and M stuck in the little pool or in her hippo. We all had a great time!
When we got home, the afternoon project involved spray bottles with colored water. It was time to decorate our forts. G decided we needed to vote on which fort was the best. Mine won ;-) Once we were done decorating, it was time for a snowball fight. Everyone had fun. I'm a little surprised that there weren't any tears, because Dad was throwing enormous chunks of snow with far too much accuracy. The weather was colder than Saturday, so lots of those snowballs were pretty hard. Luckily no windows were sacrificed to the snow battle!
