The Life and Times of the Cannodes: Cold Winter's Day?

What to do when the plan is to get 8- 14 inches of Cold Snow? Stay inside of course! Gma and Gpa Cannode had stayed overnight on Friday to watch the kids while we went to Jeff "Fa-Fa" Dun-Ham (comedian/ventriloquist). Thankfully, that meant they were snowed in with us on Saturday! That meant Lots of indoor activities and some short stints outside when the sun peaked out. The grown ups spent lots of time doing tasks around the house (no pics of this, but trust me... we were busy). The kids kept busy playing with plato and putting together puzzles while we worked.

Then, we pulled out a colorful art project that was provided by Gma and Gpa Mattson for Valentines day. Colorful markers and a cute wooden cupcake and robot. Karsten was all about putting colors everywhere and did a good job staying in the lines when he wanted to color in the circles on his cupcake. Kasey was pretty funny about his robot. He Carefully drew one line with his marker, recapped it, chose another color and drew another small intricate line. This continued on for almost 45 min. At this rate; it would take him over a month straight to color in his whole robot. He did decide the robot needed eyelashes (more careful lines), but we must admit the finished product didn't have too much 'color' on it. He thought it was Perfect though and as an added plus... we can use his robot to color on another day too!

Another big part of this weekend was that Karsten officially began potty training. We had tried a different weekend, but with limited success. A couple weeks later; we thought we would try again. We have "Karsten's Potty Board" in the bathroom where he gets to put stickers when he is successful and of course we got to pick out some fun underwear. Yep - He is going to kill me later for including these pics, but ... since we have similar ones of Kasey when he met this milestone... it was only fair to embarrass both boys equally! Here is a Big Congratulations to Karsten for moving to this new phase. We know it will be a journey for a bit until we All get a hang of this, but Kris and Amy's savings account couldn't be happier! No More Diapers/Pull ups! (To be fair... both kids still use them at night, but you still see our excitement!) Oh - and Karsten LOVES his new slippers! Wouldn't take them off; even for the picture!

I'm A Big Kid, NOW!

Here is a picture of Kasey's Big Kid transition for comparison.

On Sunday, it warmed up a bit and the sun came out. So; we headed to the Cannode's Motor home to 'dig them out'. Kasey chose to stay inside and build Popsicle stick forts with Gma; while Karsten did the "Heavy Lifting" with Gpa. As you can see from the pictures - we Did Not get the 14 promised inches. Thanks for the accurate forecast, Weatherman!

Afterwards... We decided to take a walk and sled in the snow we could find. Don't forget the fun of throwing snowballs! These snowballs were especially fun to throw as they were nice and wet! All in all. It was a memorable weekend that we hope the boys don't soon forget.