Twinkle Twinkle

Wesley had a Nursery Rhyme program at his school on Thursday. Each child got up to the microphone and recited their full name and a nursery rhyme. His nursery rhyme was Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. All of the children did an excellent job and it was so cute to watch!

Here's Wesley before school, in his costume...

Here's a video of our "little star"...



With the cooler winter weather, we have been looking for fun indoor activities. Evelyn and her buddy Jake enjoyed finger painting with pudding, the other day...

Okay, so maybe Evelyn painted her body a little more than she painted on the paper...

Evelyn eating a snack with Wesley's kitty...We had a winter storm this weekend, which meant no school for Wesley on Friday. So, Friday night, while the freezing rain and snow was coming down outside, we had a pizza picnic in the living room...
Evelyn's favorite indoor activity...STICKERS!!!
Well, we didn't have much snow to play in, but we had more than enough ice...So, we made up ice games to play, like sliding pieces of ice and looking for ice "fossils". Evelyn's favorite is swinging on ice.
Wesley's favorite is sledding on ice...Or sweet 10 year old neighbor boy, Jack, pulled Wesley around for a long time on our sled...
We saw a lot of twinkling outside this weekend...Our iced wonderland, despite being a bit dangerous (slick roads, losing power, huge branches falling, etc.), is absolutely beautiful!!!

As the sun was setting yesterday, it really looked like we had billions of twinkling lights in our backyard...

With the storm we did lose power for some of the first night, but it came back on in the early morning hours of Saturday and has stayed on, other than a few short outages, since. Also, some HUGE branches from the trees behind our house have fallen in our yard. Here's Wesley holding one of the smaller ones...

Here are a couple of pictures of the trees...You can see that there are a bunch of branches that are just barely hanging on...

As the ice melts today, we have already lost power once and know that we may lose it again. We also know that more of those big branches will be falling in our yard. However, we feel very blessed, because our problems are so minimal compared to most in this world! We also get a chance to look out our window at all of this beautiful twinkling that God created!