I'm Dreaming of a White April

I'm Dreaming of a White April

Winter appears to be making up for our green Christmas by giving us snow for Tax Day. How thoughtful.

The kids are doing well. Although poor Zoe has cavities. She went to the dentist Wednesday and I thought all would go well. Instead she's slated to have 2 fillings done in July. As Matt's teeth are astoundingly healthy, I can only assume they have inherited my bad teeth genes. (Sascha's 1-year molars all have some degree of decay.) Fingers crossed that they don't get my genes for eyesight as well, or they'll both be wearing glasses by the time they are 7.

Zoe's saying quite a few new words: yeah, bye, cheese, juice, baby (she said this once...we haven't heard it since), ball, bowl, and mine. "Mine" seems to be one of those words that second children learn fairly early! Zoe uses it constantly...sometimes she sounds like one of the seagulls from Finding Nemo.

Sascha is starting to figure out spelling...she asks how to spell words, and what certain words start with. Yesterday we were reading about snakes and she had a lot of questions, so we pulled out the encyclopedia and learned where cobras live, how antivenom works, how baby snakes get out of their eggs without breaking them open, and why snakes shed their skin.

Sascha also wants to go exploring in the woods...which I would be much more enthusiastic about if it weren't 33 degrees and snowing. Before we got more snow, she was riding her bike (with training wheels) and she is much faster than last year! Of course Zoe wants to ride a bike too, but her feet don't yet reach the pedals of the tricycle. She has grown about an inch in the past 2 months, but is still wearing 12-18 month clothing.

Here's a pic of Sascha watching ToddWorld this afternoon (based on the books by Todd Parr):



And here's some from Easter morning: