Our first true accumulation of snow. Peter and I walked to our local playground with Kahlua. He was so excited as he watched every flake fall from the sky. He enjoyed a snowcone as well on our walk.

Read Across America

Our school hosted a community reading event in celebration of Read Across America, a NEA funded literacy initiative. I organized the kickoff with a coworker and performed a skit from a book called You Read to Me and I'll Read to You. We were a HUGE hit. I was Little Miss. Muffet, and my coworker was the Spider. Peter came to school to partcipate in the activites. He made Cat in the Hat cup cake, he drank pink ink, and played many Dr. Seuss computer games in the computer lab. I think Jeff and Peter are starting to enjoy coming to visit me at work.

President's Day Weekend

Sharon and her family came for a nice visit. We went in DC in our new mini van, all of us fit. We went to the Jefferson Memorial on the tidal basin. As our hunger grew we wound up at Five Guys Burger and Fries. It was a great visit and the weather cooperated. Shar and I did the typical girl things, dyed hair, ate ice cream, got our brows waxed. It made me realize how much I miss girlfriend time, and can't wait to move back to Pennslvania.

Reason for not BLOGGING

I have been so busy at work preparing for the annual Scholastic Book Fair. This year's theme was LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION, BOOK FAIR! It was the biggest book fair event that
JC PARKS Elementary School has ever seen. I got a pop corn maker and popped over 1000 bags of movie theater popcorn. Clifford visited every classroom and I exceeded the school goal. I brought in about $10,000 and we are in a recession. My mom came down to help out as well and on Tuesday night we were on our feet for almost 12 hours.

Making Brownies

Nanny came down for a quick visit and Peter insisted on making brownies.

Claire's 3rd birthday

Peter's friend Claire invited us to her third birthday at Pump It Up! She was having pizza, cake and ice cream. It was such a well organized party. I am not certain who had ore fun, Peter or Jeff. Peter was fearless, jumping and sliding and running his little heart out. It was a great Saturday.

First Snow in Maryland

Some how we managed to get a snow day out of this little mess. Peter loved playing outside. In fact at one point I came in the house and let him play in the back yard with Kahlua. He learned about the life cycle of the Snowman, and was so disappointed when "Frosty" melted.