Things I Thought I'd Never Say 1,238

Tonight, 5:43 PM: "The kitchen's not a good place to swing a snake around."

Dad's Day

On Tuesday, January 24, Forrest's school, Montessori Learning Path, hosted their Dad's Day. All dads were invited for a cowboy themed event, where they ate chili and watched their children work. Forrest was especially excited about dressing up as a cowboy, athough a fedora was the closest we could come to a cowboy hat. He dictated the following composition about his father to one of his teachers: He works and does cool stuff on the body. We like to go swimming at the park. We love to spend time together at the Y. I love my dad!

No More Yellow!

Here's the same view - mostly - as the previous picture, but the obnoxiously bright yellow is gone. And Forrest, to his consternation, is no longer allowed in what he called "my cabinet." (Yes, he got the Harry Potter reference - kind of. He commented that he was glad he didn't have muggles for parents.)

Forrest's Cabinet

We finally figured out what we're going to do with our cabinets in the kitchen. Several of the upper ones have glass fronts, and the previous owners had some rather cutsey fabric (coordinating with the *bright* yellow doors) adorning the shelves. Forrest, however, is not eager for us to pick a shelf liner and load the cabinets, because then he couldn't do this:

Snow Day

We got quite a bit of snow on Friday. Forrest and Brian went sledding Saturday. It was great, but I (Forrest) didn't like the jump on the first try. We went to really just two big mountains. One of them had a jump; one of them was not as steep as the other. The steep one was so steep that you needed a rail there just to get up. Good thing they put one there.
Forrest and Brian made a snow fort and a snowman Sunday. We built a snowman first. We made a big ball, then made it bigger by rolling it. We rolled a second ball, then a third, which was the head. And then then we put on the face parts. We used a carrot for a nose. We used leaves for eyes. Then we built the snow fort out of even bigger balls. And they were more ball-ish. We moved them into place by rolling them.