Allie's First "Why...?"

Although she asks "Why?" about everything we tell her to do, Allie has only just started asking me specific "Why" questions like these two (her first two):


Mommy, why did God make us to have chins?


Mommy, why did God make animals?

Snowmageddon 2011: Atlanta

6 inches of snow overnight + 1/2 a day of raining ice on top + a city that has no snow recovery plan or equipment + 5 (FIVE!) days of no school + temperatures constantly below 32 degrees + undriveable roads laden with 1-2 inches of ice-covered-snow + grocery trucks unable to deliver food to any stores + no mail or trash service for 4 days + 3 million residents who have never driven on ice + 4 million residents trapped at home for 3-5 days + cabin fever + concerned citizens blaming the local government + the local government realizing they underestimated mother nature =
SNOWMAGEDDON 2011

Here's what we did on day 4 of Snowmageddon:

This is our "eco-friendly" snowman. All of his features are edible by animals in need of food after 5 days of ice.

This is a tree close to our house. Although the outdoor temperatures did not reach above 33 degrees from Monday until Friday, the heat from our house made the snow on our roof drip off onto trees. Then that moisture would freeze on its way to the ground. The ice was awesome.

This has been going around on Facebook and it made me laugh big time. So very true! See the area on the driver's side of the car? That is ALL road, all the way to that other car. The roads were just like this until Thursday. It was really crazy.

Snow Day 2

We are still cooped up and enjoying our snow days! Tuesday we ventured down the road and tried some sledding down a great hill in our neighborhood. We have some friends who brought some cool homemade sleds since none of us own actual sleds. Super fun!
In these pictures, I would like you to notice the road. We are sledding in the middle of the road on ice-covered snow. Atlanta doesn't really have snow plows to clear the roads, which is mainly why we've had three consecutive snow days - the city really shuts down due to the roads being undriveable. And every night, it freezes again, so the next day they are awful again.

Zachary & his favorite friend Kayla. So cute! See the sled? Homemade and completely functional!

This is Allie & Zachary free-stylin' it down the hill. They were laughing so hard and having a great time! Zachary's sledding on a piece of linoleum, which was super fast and never stayed straight, so he was twisting around like a Tea Cup at Disney. It was a lot of fun! Allie is on a tupperware lid, which definitely wasn't as good as the other 'sleds.'

After the sledding, we had hot chocolate while the kids watched movies and the grown ups played games. Good day!

Snow Day 2011

Well, it seems for the past few years we've had 1 awesome snow here in Atlanta each year. Sunday night around 10pm, it started snowing and dropped 2 inches in about 30 minutes. It kept snowing all night long.
I wanted to wake the kids so badly and take them outside so they could see & hear the beauty of a thick heavy snowfall at night. I resisted my urge and instead walked around outside by myself like a big dork. It was nice though.
Anyway, when Zachary woke up at 5:56 am and started running around looking out all our windows, I knew we'd have a fun day.
This is the most snow we've seen here, I'm pretty sure. Our yard had about 5-6 inches.

Here's Allie, eating the snow. She got the hiccups awhile later...I'm not sure how much she actually ate.

We took a walk down the street and watched some kids sledding down the big hill in our neighborhood. This is the street. As you can see, no snow plowing here in our neighborhood. The kids liked watching them sled. When we got back to our yard, they got their swimming kickboards and tried sledding down our driveway. I'm not sure what went wrong there, but it didn't work at all. It was still fun and very funny to watch.

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Recent conversation overheard in my house:

Zachary: "Allie, are you still on the potty? Hurry up so we can play."

Allie: "Yes, I almost done."

Zachary: "Do you have to wipe?"

Allie: "Yes, I wiping."

Zachary: "Be sure to wipe the front and the back. Because girls have to wipe the front too."

Allie: "I wipe the front and the back because I have two butts. One in the front and one in the back. But boys just have 1 butt and 1 pee pee."