ole schnikees: 2019

Tova: she is officially a walker, she'll walk first before crawling everywhere and her balance is getting so good, she can turn now, squat to pick up a toy then stand back up, and go longer distances, Tova got her first molar poking through this week (thank goodness because if we went thru all that for just a little tooth, that other bottom front one is almost thru too, we were in trouble for the molars) I had thought she was working on molars and sure enough one corner of a bottom one is thru, she likes to talk and grunt, she likes to carry a toy in each hand, I started "brushing" her teeth with a real baby tooth brush and then I let her do it and she cries when I take it away,

Monday was a beautiful sunny day although a little windy/cold. Al was off but he didn't get up until 11. then trevor went to school. Monday night we had grandpa peter over for supper and he brought his video game console again which trevor loved until he had to stop playing for bed.

Tuesday morning jenny, kourtlyn, klare, and their black lab Kirby came over for the morning while their house had the inspection done. they're moving to the country in Chippewa and leaving us. :( but the house is beautiful and it's on almost 2 acres with all kinds of different fruit/nut trees and it's right across from the apple orchards up there. it was fun having them over; jenny cut my hair, Kirby was a good boy, and tova had interest in playing with klare (who kept hugging tova :]). then it was time for a little lunch before sending trevor off to school.

Wednesday we got more snow and although trevor wasn't supposed to have school it was a snow day for the rest of the district which meant we didn't get to go to trevor's conference. during tova's first nap, Al, trevor and I went out to shovel. otherwise we had a lazy snow day, watching a movie, having snacks, playing. trevor seemed tired and I had all kinds of sinus pressure and tova was teething/drooling.

Thursday, trevor and I did get outside for a bit, but just stuck inside again.

Friday morning mom, maren, tula and etta drove down for the day. it was lots of fun having them here; the first of my cousin's to come visit us! they got here about 1030am. the kids played while we chatted, we had lunch, played some more and then went on a walk to the park. the kids rode in the sleds and all loved it except Etta. :) we had to walk through a ton of snow to get to the park, but tula and trevor had fun. once home, trevor and tula played outside a bit longer while I put tova down for nap. Al got up and hung out too; he picked up a 6 hour over time shift that night so worked 6-midnight. mom, maren and the girls left about 5ish, so the kids and I had dinner and then a movie night.

Saturday I ran to target but otherwise we just did house stuff and the kids spent time with Al since they'd been missing him. then matt, Jodi, cam, chloe and Carsyn came over for dinner and game night. it was so fun! Al made baked chicken thighs and bacon & brussel sprouts; so good! neither matt nor Jodi had tried brussel sprouts before and they liked them! I played a game of skipbo with the 3 big kids, then all of us but the babies played ninja turtle uno, then 6 of us played partner dog sequence; so fun! then we put a movie on for the kids and the adults played Jodi's new version of cards against humanity; we laughed SO hard!! especially Al! they left about 1030p and we promptly went to bed after that.

Saturday night into sunday morning we got another 8+ inches of snow.... it also got really windy on sunday so we shoveled in shifts. once Al was awake, trevor and I went out and did the driveway down to the sidewalk. we also made a snow fort in the piles where we rested out of the wind for a bit in the middle of shoveling. it got colder and windier throughout the day, so Al did the second shift which was after the plow came by. he got half the end of the driveway done and some of the sidewalk (this snow was much heavier and the piles are SO big along our driveway.) then, while we were eating lunch, some of the neighbors finished the end of our driveway and sidewalk with their snow blower. we played a lot of card games and I got some cleaning done. also, by sunday Tova was full fledged walking everywhere; she's getting so good at it. she can now turn, squat to pick up a toy then stand back up, and go long distances. so crazy that she's a walker already and will be 1 next week!