Warm Thoughts (Part II)

Warm thoughts didn't work this week - it snowed all day on Thursday so the kids' schools were closed on Thursday and Friday.  We watched a couple of movies...

And of course we played outside several times (Clare insisted on bringing her "baby" for one trip):

We played Legos:

We put together puzzles:

We played with Play-Doh:

 And we played outside again:

We made a fort:

Warm thoughts

As we face yet another ice and/or snow storm, let's go back, back, back to Puerto Rico and revisit a fun little nugget from our trip...

...a visit to the Bacardi factory!

We visited the "Cathedral of Rum" and learned about the history of the Bacardi family. Cuba, and Puerto Rico...

  

The Bacardi bat symbol - Sean thought this was super-cool:

The factory was all dressed up for Christmas, too: 

 

The tour, which included a visit to the distillery, a little museum dedicated to the history of the Bacardi family, and a gift store, concluded at an outdoor bar area.  At the bar, we were enjoyed our free Bacardi drink - Thom John chose a Cuba Libre and I chose a Mojito.

The kids enjoyed unlimited fruit punch - yum!

Beauty tips & teeth time sweeties

"The hippo is eating my hair. Then it throws up my hair and that's how my hair is so straight and smooth!"

"Clare, you're a good little brusher, little sister.  I love you."  

"You're a good big tooth brusher too, big brudder.  I love you too, Seany!!!"

Five Day Weekend

Seany had a five day weekend last weekend thanks to a President's Day break and a snow day.  Clare just had a four day weekend :-)

We sure did pack a lot into this weekend.  On Friday, Daddy and Sean got to spend the day together - highlights included going out to lunch and seeing the Spongebob movie.  Saturday was basketball for Sean, swimming for both kids, and then Clare went to a birthday party at the Garden State Children's Museum.  After we got home from the party, we had Grandma and Grandpa Corcoran, plus Aunt Mary over for dinner and dessert!  On Sunday, it was Sean's turn to go to a birthday party - at a hibachi restaurant!  Sean didn't like the food very much, but the cake (from the Cake Boss' new bakery!!) was a hit.  And Monday was time for Sean, Clare, and Mommy to spend the day together.  Because it was about 8 degrees all day, we stayed in and played games, Legos, Wii, colored, and napped.

On Tuesday, we woke up to about 4 inches of snow and no school for the kids.  Luckily, Mommy could work from home but unluckily, she had a lot of work to do.  Thank goodness for Netflix streaming!  But we got to take two breaks to go out and play in the snow:

100 Days

Seany has his 100th day of school on Tuesday (if it doesn't snow, that is).  To celebrate, he and his classmates were assigned their very first school project to do: find 100 of something and present it in a creative way.  Sean thought and thought about what to bring - make a lego ship with 100 pieces?   A necklace made of 100 pieces of macaroni?  A shirt with 100 buttons on it?  Then Sean looked over at the kitchen counter and saw the bucket in which we keep his collection of applesauce caps!  He figured there must be 100 caps and he was right - the bucket had over 100 caps in it!  

Once it was time to make the poster, we dumped the caps out onto the floor and Sean sorted the caps by color and shape...

Then, he counted out 100 caps by making ten rows of ten...

Meanwhile, Clare cut pictures out of magazines - one of her favorite pastimes while Sean is doing schoolwork...

 

After sorting and counting the caps, it was time to glue them onto a piece of poster paper.  I thought Sean was going to glue them in their ten rows of ten, but then Sean suggested making the number 100 out of the 100 caps - brilliant!  So we got busy gluing and arranging the caps.  Once that was done we painted with a little glitter glue to make the poster snazzy and then it was done!

Valentine's Flashback

Decorating a Valentine's cake with Grummy and Pop Pop in 2013:

And today, making a similar cake in anticipation for a visit from their Grandma and Grandpa Corcoran :-)

This week

This past week, just like any other week, has gone by in a blur!  This weekend, Sean had basketball and the kids both had swimming lessons.  Clare is really comfortable in the water and Sean can go underwater all by himself!

We stopped at Wawa and saw what is probably the last pumpkin spice flavored K-cups we'll see until August, I guess :-)

We took a break from Legos and we built wooden blocks castles:

Back to the Legos - Sean built a defensive line of ships:

Sean got to bring home the class pet, a stuffed lamb named Lollipop:

Clare was really happy that Lollipop came home.  She helped changed Lollipop's clothes and had tea parties with the lamb.