Snow play

Eric's favorite snow activity has always been having snowball fights.  So yesterday morning, he and I went outside to have a fight.

Be afraid.  Be very afraid.  

The start of his snowball stash.  

My stash.

He decided Pie in the Face would be his snowball of choice.  

RUN!!!!!

My one snow

I love having one good snow a year.  One snow.  Powdery, fun to play in, beautiful.  We got snow yesterday, and it was wonderful!  They were the biggest flakes I had ever seen.

I saw it starting in the afternoon while we were doing school.  We immediately ran downstairs and went outside.  

Eric immediately began catching snowflakes on his tongue.  These were easy to catch.  So huge!

Eric said my hair looked just like Elsa's, so he took a picture to show me.  

About three hours later, here was our winter wonderland.  Sigh.  I love it!!!!

FISH!!!!

So, after weeks of research, we finally got some fish for the tank Eric got last month.  Getting fish is much more involved than getting a dog was.  So many things to consider - temperature of tank, ph levels, who can go with whom, who needs a mate and who doesn't, food, etc.  We now own 6 fish.  Hoping and praying it stays at 6.  New tank syndrome kills a lot of fish, but we did everything we could to prevent that.  We have two Neon Tetras, two Black Tetras, one Silver Molly, and one Black Cory.

In the video above, Molly is the Silver Molly.  Dusk is the Black Cory.  The Tetras have not been named yet.  We haven't gotten to know them well enough to give them names.

This is the only picture I have of all 6 together.  They move a lot.  The Black Tetras are on the bottom left.  Dusk is in the center.  The Neon Tetras are next to Molly on the right.  

Captain D

We don't usually swim on Fridays.  His swim is offered 6 days a week.  That is a little much for us.  So, Friday is a day we had chosen to miss.  Two weeks ago, we decided to go on a Friday.  They have a fish award that they give out on Friday to the swimmer that week based on practicing hard, attendance, improvement, performance, etc.  You keep it for one week and then bring it back.  We didn't know this fish, Captain D, existed.  Eric was very excited to get the award that week.  They put the award on hold for a couple of weeks as it is state competition time, so we currently still have the fish in our possession.  He will bring it back next week to move on to a new home.  

I love my goofy little fish boy!

Library

It didn't take long for the librarian here to learn our names.  We go in once or twice a week, and she just immediately checks the hold shelf when she sees us coming.  We often request books from other libraries within the system.  We went in this afternoon and got our weekly haul of books.  He reads about this much plus 2-5 of his own books each week.  I try to read ahead of him on books to find good series for him.  It's tough.  He's a fast little reader.  He doesn't get in the car without a book.  He even brushes his teeth while reading a book.  I was the same way when I was little.  I read as much as possible.

Two of the above books I am hoping to read quickly before he does.  Wish me luck!

I'm not nearly as fast a reader as I used to be. 

This picture book caught his eye, so he wanted to sit and read it before we left.  

Lego at the library

The library here offers a once a month Lego build time.  They dump legos on the table, then there is a free for all to build whatever you want.  This was our first time to go.  Eric build a futuristic military plane.  You then label it and put it on display for the next month.  Then they take it apart for the next build time.

Here is his description: 

Happy Valentine's Day!

First of all, have you notice I have been a blogging machine lately?  I mean, really....

We miss our special Papa Murphy's heart shaped pizza.  We have no Papa Murphy's.  It's a cruel, cruel world here in the ATL.  But Chick-fil-a has a heart shaped biscuit.  All is good again.

And then I had to make Eric's favorite food for lunch.  

Potato soup.  With plenty of bacon.