Snow Days

Well, it looks like it is behind us now but Texas has had some unseasonably cold weather lately.  I'm a little bummed that it decided to hit in late February/early March rather than December, but at least the girls got to see some snow this year.  In Texas it usually starts off as rain and everyone goes into panic so that you can't find bread, milk or bottled water at the grocery stores.  We got two days of rain and at the end of the second day it turned to sleet and was pure ice by the next morning.  Of course it looked like snow, but it wasn't.  Kenna got two snow days in a row.

Well, that all melted and a couple days later we got some real snow.  We got to go pick Kenna up from school early and she played with Callie in perfect, powdery snow.  To top it all off school was canceled again the next day.  It was fun to have some winter weather, even if it was March.  Now I know that I should keep some snow gear on hand for the girls so they can play outside without freezing.

In February Kenna convinced us to take her to science night at her school.  It started at the same time as bedtime so neither of us wanted to go but after enough begging I gave in and took here.  Of course Callie had to come too.  I was very impressed with the activities they had.  Both girls got to stand in a bubble which Callie immediately popped.  They got to experiment with sound and lights and all kinds of cool stuff.  The highlight was a computer that was hooked up to lemons and each lemon played a different sound like a piano, but only if you were touching the teacher who was hooked up to the computer.  Kenna was enthralled.

A few more pictures from Mexico...

I thought I'd add a few more pictures from Mexico since it's freezing here and I wish I were there...

Kenna was really excited about holding the parrot.  She was very brave even though it didn't feel great to have his finger nails scratching her (as she put it).

Here we are floating down the river.  Nate took some breaks from floating to cliff jump, zip line and swim with Kenna.

Kenna's band was tied to the camera boxes all over the park, which she figured out how to work instantly.  We got about a million pictures likes this...