Second Snow

Our second snow came on Thursday with Storm Q.  In advance of the storm school was cancelled for Buddy and the kids.  A big storm was expected.  It didn't start snowing until after 5am.  By midmorning it was snowing faster than I had ever seen before.  The kids wanted to go out into the snow and were the first kids out.  The wind was blowing hard and the snow was like ice.  The news said the snow was falling 3 inches per hour at its heaviest.  I couldn't take clear pictures.

By afternoon the snow was over.  The kids played outside several times during the day.  Buddy took the kids sledding but the cheap sled broke quickly.  Nyla still used a portion of it nearby.










Buddy had a delayed start on Friday but the kids were off.  Their school doesn't do early release or delayed starts.  Cora wasn't feeling well in the morning and threw up several times.  She felt fine by about 10.  It felt like old times to have the kids at home without Buddy.  They did school work, painted, and played.  Bohdin and Nyla went outside to play several times although Nyla was out more including a stay at Mo-'s house. 





In the afternoon I stopped at the PX with the slim hope of finding a sled.  There were no sleds but they did have their summer pool inner tubes out.  I thought it might be better than nothing.  It worked for a a little while but it kept losing air.  The neighbors let Bohdin use their extra sled and he played with them for a while. 



Here is the snowman that Nyla built with Mo-.  They also worked on a snow fort.  Nyla says the snowman is called Snowflake.









Bohdin played with the neighbor kids a lot yesterday.  After lunch M- the second grade boy was playing with his friend and Bohdin was the third wheel.  He came in and played with Nyla and Cora.  They were doing a conga line, playing chase, wrestling, and other stuff.  Eventually Bohdin moved on to his own thing and Nyla and Cora played puppy together. 

In the morning we called a few places looking for sleds but we had no luck.  I called another place after dinner and was told they had a few.  All of the kids came with me to see what they had.  It was late when we got home and Cora was pretty tired.  As I was brushing her teeth I noticed something big in her nose.  I asked her what was in her nose and she told me a bead.  It was indeed a bead which had been in there for hours.  Nyla started crying and was really distraught as Buddy tried to remove it.  Bohdin thought it was his fault and Nyla thought it was her fault.  While Cora was playing puppy she accidentally inhaled a bead that Nyla had offered as food. 

This morning Nyla is the one with the throwups as she calls them.  She has it worse than Cora did.  Buddy took Bohdin and Cora out to try out the new sleds.