ole schnikees: 2019

I can't believe it is just 2 weeks and Tova will be one!!! that year went by insanely fast!! she is taking 4-9 steps on her own, if possible she will pull herself up and walk along anything to get places instead of crawling, she slept through the night again this week, she will point to her nose when asked and also will pat her hair when asked, she's a button pusher: she loves remotes and phones, she got her 7th tooth finally another bottom one,

Monday we just lounged in the morning and then sent trevor to school even though he was still a bit tired from having the stomach bug. but we got a big snow storm on Tuesday and I knew they weren't going to have school, so I wanted him to get to go on Monday. he did great at school and we just relaxed that night. Tova was crying/whining most of the night if I wasn't holding her. in fact, she did that Tuesday and most of Wednesday too.

we got another 9 inches of snow on Tuesday and there was no school. trevor and I went out during tova's first nap to shovel and it was hard work. there was already at least 6 inches on the ground and it was a bit heavier snow than the previous ones. also the mountains of snow on the sides of our driveways are so tall that it was a lot of work to get the shovel-fulls of snow up on top or over them. it did the driveway to the sidewalk and the sidewalk but then was beat. thank goodness Al had brought his ford explorer squad home that morning so he didn't have to drive the Volkswagen in that snow to work.

Wednesday was a 2 hour delay for the school district which meant no 4k so another snow day for trevor. Al got off work at 3am, drove the Volkswagen home but our road wasn't plowed yet and he didn't want to chance getting it stuck at 4am in the morning. so he parked it at the gas station 2 blocks away and walked home in the snow in uniform at 4 am. :( I don't like that but it's not like I could have gone to get him or that I faulted his decision to not get the vw stuck. Once he was awake, we'd been plowed and our awesome neighbor, mark, snowblowed the end of our driveway, we all packed up in the car and drove him to get the vw. trevor and I also went to aldi for a few things but mostly to get out of the house; cabin fever!! trevor and I also played out back in the snow in the afternoon; it was fun! but it was so deep!

Thursday was valentine's day! the kids and I went to Jodi's in the morning for a little valentine's day party and we had fun! both kids slept all night and slept in until 8 am!! therefore, Tova didn't nap until we got home and had some lunch, so she went down at noonish. trevor finally had school, so Al and I got our workouts in and some stuff done. then I went to pick up trevor from school. we had heart shaped pizza for supper, had bath/shower night, and then watched a bit of a movie before bed.

Friday morning we just played and then after lunch the kids and I drove up to the cities. we didn't have any actual plans but it was just so nice to get out of the house. during tova's nap, trevor and I ran over to kohl's to exchange one of his birthday presents that we already had and he got to pick out a different toy, which went a lot easier and smoother than I expected. mom made meatballs for supper and unc-o came home in time to eat and hang out until bedtime.

Saturday morning we played (we didn't sleep real well so we were all pretty tired), we had lunch, and then trevor got to play Mario Olympics on the wii with unc-o which he loved! then we headed home. Al was already at work when we got home. we played lots of trouble, some soccer, had supper, took baths, read books and then bedtime.

we came home on Saturday because we got more snow sunday. so sunday was another day inside although trevor and I did go out and shovel. we saw Al for about a half hour before he went in to work.