The major cold storm was the main story for February, but we did have lots of other little things going on before and after everything was buried in snow for a week. We had lots of park days (hard to believe we had days close to 80 and days -11 below all in the same month), lots of fun at the Discovery Center, we took a day trip to Lubbock, and watched the Super Bowl with friends.
The Panhandle area (Amarillo + surrounding counties) also moved from Level Red to Level Orange for covid!! In practice nothing much changes, but Level Orange does mean our hospital numbers and the daily new cases numbers are both low. Things here spiked out of control around Thanksgiving, and it's been so encouraging to see things finally moving in the right direction again. In fact, this was the first month that I didn't get a covid letter from Sophie's school!
Charlie building big towers while Davey was at school and couldn't knock them down
Some girls had brought their pet bearded dragon to the park and let Sophie hold it for awhile. She keeps wanting to go back to that park to see if they will be there again with the lizard.
Sophie's dream is to take care of animals
Davey wanted to stack the Legos until they were taller than he was. We had to build the towers in the very middle of the table where the Griffin Grabber couldn't reach them.
This is Charlie's treasure box that he keeps in his crib with all his special things. Can you guess his favorite color??
Sophie loves sleepovers with Emery. They beg us to have one pretty much every week and sometimes we let them do it.
Poor Charlie didn't make it home from church awake
We have no loyalties to the Chiefs or Buccaneers, but Davey loves pirates so for the Super Bowl we were Tampa Bay fans. Shockingly they won!!
I got this photo of Davey from his preschool on Valentine's Day
All four kids playing peacefully at the Discovery Center
We had fun at the Science Spectrum in Lubbock on a day off school. This was the first day of freezing cold weather and we debated whether or not to go down. I'm glad we did because after this the kids wouldn't leave the house for the next 8 days.
I took the boys for a walk around the pond once the weather warmed back up. We had to walk to the far side where some ice had melted to get to the ducks. Most of the pond was still frozen solid.
Sophie built Griffin this house of magna tiles at the Discovery Center. It took him about 2 seconds to flatten it after we put him inside.
Smallwoods had a great sale on Valentine's Day so I ordered these giant frames of the kids. They turned out so good and it looks so nice to finally have some pictures on our walls that have been blank for 3 years.
Both kids deny adding "Stinking butt stupid face" to my shopping list, but I did find it hilarious that Alexa categorized it as "meat"
