February all ready?!! - 02/04

Seems like just yesterday it was Christmas (heck, summer!) and now it's coming up on Valentine's Day, goodness. We're all doing well here, got through a really cold snap last week, back warmer the past couple days, though it's supposed to get cold again next week. Yuck, winter.
Today was supposed to be the older kids (Ruth and Zech) school ski trip - I was planning to take Levi and go with them (not skiing), Isaac was going to go to our friends' house for the day. But last night (after it nicely warmed up) it rained... then froze! The highways are closed from Saskatchewan to Winnipeg, and north of Brandon. So, no skiing today. I am hoping that they'll find another day to reschedule - there should certainly be plenty of days to choose from, lots of winter left. The older 2 were bummed, but all right when they realized that the teachers will most likely try to go again soon. Isaac, on the other hand, was more upset than they were! He's been looking forward to going to the Neufeld's all week and wasn't quite so appeased to know that there still will be a ski trip and he'll still have to go there for the day!

Other than that, we've just been doing school and skating - the kids are doing even better this year! Ruth's doing normal skating lessons and then precision (figure skating) this year - she's having a lot of fun learning new steps and starting spins and jumps! Isaac is doing skating lessons, as he has the past couple years - he's gotten a bunch faster and isn't falling as much this year all ready! And Zech is doing "power skating" for lessons instead of the CanSkate lessons, this other one is more hockey basics than figure skating - much more his speed (no pun intended)! He's also going for "mini sticks" each Thursday night - they do a few hockey drills (passing the puck, stick handling, etc) and then have a scrimmage. They also get to have a couple games against another small town's mini sticks team. We went there last week - we win-ded the game! Zech had a blast playing! (it's a dark picture, but here he is all decked out in his hockey gear! Too cute!!)

There are a few more pictures on the other site, and Josh was able to tape Zech's first shift on ice!

Speaking of videos, there are a few more than that I added today...
Jan 7 - Levi (sort of!) playing Peek-a-Boo - if you listen closely in the first few seconds he says "boo"
Jan 14 - Levi getting the remote (crawling)
Jan 18 - even better crawling!
Jan 26 - just Levi
Jan 27 - Zech's hockey game
Feb 3 - check out this kid's crawling now!!!

And some pictures (more over there!)...
Leave Isaac with an empty laundry basket and a baby and...

Just Levi, being his cute goofy little self!

See? Goofy!