We've Been Keeping Busy Since Christmas

Three months of activities have happened since the last post.  This post will run from snow pants to short sleeves!  

In early January we attended Cinderella at the Fox Theater in St. Louis.  We were lucky enough to get box seats, and they are so much fun to sit in!  Especially the special intermission dessert list of mountain high cotton candy (with chocolates on the bottom!  because you need more sugar after eating the cotton candy) and an enormous hot fudge sundae.

Both kids received a Superior rating at their Piano Festival.  They practiced so much for this rating!

In January we also attended our first Globetrotters game.  All four of us laughed the entire time, and the kids had such fun before the game in the Globetrotters meet and greet.

Our yearly Valentine's Day tradition of make your own pizzas and ice cream sundaes continues!  

We attended a 100 year birthday party for Joe's grandmother Josephine.  

Olivia had her final Owen Marsh music concert.  The theme was 80s songs, plus the fifth graders sang a fun song to their principal as a way of saying thank you for the fun times.

There was a perfect snow in late February - it snowed on a Friday night, it was a wet snow perfect for making a snowman, yet the day temperature rose to just at freezing making it so nice to be outside.  We built a snowman taller than Ethan, and it lasted about 3 weeks.

And with the snow came plenty of sledding at the local sledding hill.

Both kids had a fantastic time at the Marsh Skateland family night.  They were both moving so fast that I couldn't get any good pictures of them or their friends (Olivia is in pink).

And out come the shorts!  In mid March we had a warm Saturday and decided to spend it in St. Louis.  We had lunch at Jilly's Cupcake Bar, spent the afternoon at the St. Louis zoo (along with the rest of St. Louis - it was packed!), and ate dinner at Mission Taco in the Loop.  It was a perfect day!

Ethan with his favorite animal - the rhino.

A lovely picture of Olivia in the Butterfly House.

A zoo tradition for us is to take Olivia's picture with this penguin.  The very first picture required her to hold on to it since she could barely stand by herself.  Now the penguin doesn't even reach her knees!

Ethan in the reptile house.  For some reason, both kids LOVE going through the reptile house.

Ethan and Olivia having fun in Turtle Park.