Swimming Monkey...

Alex LOVES swimming:

His favorite part is jumping into the pool and they made it even more exciting by hanging a huge blowup monkey up for them to hit on their way into the pool:

So much fun watching my little monkey swim!!

Snowed in...

My shiny red new friend:

Southern friends, if you don't know what this is, consider yourself LUCKY! It's a snow blower and is a must have if you live in MN (aka Land of Snow and Ice).


So with a clear driveway and sidewalk, here is how Alex came off the bus today:

Walking on the cleared sidewalk is way over-rated for 6 year olds!

Alex made this candycane ornament at school:

It looks beautiful on our tree!

Snow day...

My phone rang at 5:22 am with an automated message that would make my little man ecstatic - NO SCHOOL, it's a snow day!!


He is enjoying watching Dinosaur Train (a PBS cartoon that we've never gotten to watch bc it's on while he's at school) and eating tortilla chips:

And it's still coming down! We're going to head out after lunch to PLAY!!

Hope you're having a wonderful Wednesday!

Little Elf...

My little elf came home last night to find the tree up and ready to decorate! His excitement made my heart smile!


note to self: buy all new lights at the after Christmas sales! I like my tree to resemble the airport landing pad and had to throw away three strands that refused to work, so need more lights.

While getting all our ornaments out I discovered that I'm a tad bit obsessed with buying ornaments with Alex's name on them! I think it stems from never having ornaments with my name on them as a child (other than the gold ones that you could personalize - need to ask momma if I can have those!) - I have no idea why they didn't make "Jonnelle" ornaments, hehe! Oh well, it's a good obsession to have.

Hope you're having a magnificent Monday!!