My coworkers continue to be fun and goofy.
Kiernan finished painting his Pinewood Derby car. Here is Diamond armor Steve with red background drying after his final coat of paint.
I got a bit sick this week so David took Kiernan to Cub Scouts. He took a few pictures of their visit to the fire station. It was pretty adorable from what I have seen.
With the firehouse visit the boys have completed all their requirements to attain the rank of Tiger. They were scheduling that with a deadline of February so all is well in achievement land.
This fire station visit went with the Safe and Smart elective, for which Kiernan has to memorize a phone number to use in emergencies, make a fire evacuation plan, demonstrate stop drop and roll and the blanket extinguishing techniques (all over Megan a million times with the blanket) and check all of our smoke detectors.
My phone number is the only stumbling block.
Here is a model of Diamond armor Steve next to derby car Diamond armor Steve.
Megan had a good week.
She got a mermaid costume from Aunt Lore. She loves it very much.
David got a day off (Martin Luther King day on Monday) so the kids came to see me for lunch. It was too cold to walk around so we went over to the movie theater where Megs attacked all the games full force.
If only mommy would carry cash.
On Friday in preparation for our big snow, I took the kids to the local ice skating pond.
We brought Kiernan's skates but he and Megs said they just wanted to run around. So they did.
She would have skated but we cant find any tiny skates that are also cheap.
My new boss told us not to come in to work on Friday so I got to spend all day at home and that was lovely.
The snow started between 1 and 2 o'clock. I took pictures every hour or so except for when I was fixing dinner.
I was very pleased to have remembered to grab everything for Kiernan's birthday before it got going
because when we got up in the morning David had to shovel a path out for the dog to the yard.
It looked like this at breakfast time.
Then it snowed all day and into the night.
David cleared a path for the dog and cleared all the weight off the deck.
We started a path up the hill and in between that we celebrated Kiernan's 7th birthday.
He got a shark.
We all got a blizzard.
Pax got to go out front without a leash.
Happy snow dog!
I got a quiet party with no people and no pressure and no cleaning.
I got to spend a day with only my family.
Poor mom had to work but she did it from home instead of camping out in her office all weekend.
I think it was marginally better for her being trapped in a basement instead of an office.
She got to watch birds shelter outside her door on the hot tub.
click that ^
Mom made a Steve cake and we sang happy birthday and ate enchiladas.
Kiernan asked David to leave the corner of the deck untouched so that he could build an igloo.
He was pleased enough with the results.
By that evening there was a clear path 1/3rd up the driveway and the deck was clear and we had introduced a very proud 7 year old to the Incredibles.
7 may be the perfect age for the Incredibles.
We ate pineapple pizza and sat around together feeling cozy and warm.
On Sunday morning I made a pancake breakfast and we girded our loins to see what the storm had wrought.
Pax tried to forge on ahead but was stymied bu snow taller than she was.
This is the view from the top of the driveway. I am standing in the center of the road and my car is on the side there with moms mini just in front of it.
This was my view for the rest of the day.
Good Gracious!
and of course David got us this path of ice free functionality very quickly.
When ever we went into the house there were games afoot.
There were Nerf battles that basically drove me back out of doors.
There were games of Zombie Dice that lured me back in.
Just as David and I freed his car a plow came through.
That guy was really having a hard time. There were many many back ups and shove moments with strategic guess work about where the road was verses where the lawns might be.
He left this thin wall instead of the mountain we were afraid of and then he doubled back and shoved even that out of our way!
A neighbor came over to dig mom out because another neighbor had already dug her out.
I really like the people in Mount Airy.
I heard that one of the church groups went over to the senior center and dug them out too.
That evening David and Kiernan polished the axels and added the graphite and took the derby car for a test spin around the kitchen.
I was hoping for bent axels too but with out an 80 dollar tool that wasn't going to happen easily so we will have to go with fast spin but lots of bounce on the alignment.
Kiernan really got into the sanding and was done with letting daddy tinker with the alignment pretty fast.
Megan really wanted to drive the car but her brother (probably wisely but a little selfishly) wouldn't let her near his car.
David and I both had Monday off and we dug and played some more. I made (with some help from boys life magazine and a little help from Kiernan ) a quinzee shelter that I am very proud of.
Pictures of that to follow if it doesn't cave in
I was quite hoping (to go skiing) for another day off and thought we had gotten it on Tuesday when the Federal Government shut down for another day.
But no
I type this from my desk at work.
ha
Almost no one is here but Dr. Watson survives so my trip is not wasted.
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