Last week, winter storm Iago was predicted to visit North Carolina and caused much excitement with the anticipation of the white stuff. The girls could barely sleep last Thursday, as we talked about the possibility of snow. The morning dawned with just enough snow to make cover the grass and give us a reason to tromp around in boots and snow suits.
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| H strikes a pose |
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| working the snow suit! |
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| camellia(?) in the snow |
The snow was actually more like crunchy ice and Molly was NOT a big fan, as I think you can tell by her facial expression in all the pictures. She kept falling over because it was so hard to walk on it.
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| seriously mom, enough with the pics. get me out of this stuff. |
Hayden was already scheduled to not have school as part of the MLK weekend, so I had been planning for FUN FRIDAY without even knowing it would be a snow day. One of our main projects was to make a yogurt cake, the
gâteau au yaourt, that is talked about in the book Bringing Up Bebe. It's supposedly a simple cake that French children as young as 3 learn to make on their own. You use the yogurt containers to measure the rest of the ingredients. With a three and five year old who love to bake and eat cake, it seemed like the perfect project. So I printed out the recipe, got all the supplies together and let them have at it. They had a GREAT time.
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| let's begin! |
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| sugar! (does her 'concentrating' face remind you of anyone?) |
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| more sugar! |
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| guess who didn't like being stuck on the ground, but couldn't be trusted in a chair? |
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| cooperative stirring |
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| carefully adding in the dry ingredients |
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| I'm here! Where did the supplies go?!!! |
Part of the process of the French kids making this cake, is that they learn to do it themselves, AND then they have to have patience to wait to eat it at afternoon tea/snack (le gouter). Figuring my kids could learn a little more patience (we always take about having tastes of batter, at the end), we didn't eat the cake until the afternoon. To make a bit more FUN FRIDAY, we invited over our carpool buddy for a tea party. Everyone was dressed up fancy, and everyone enjoyed the cake!
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| our finished product! a little bit dense but very tasty |
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| pouring the tea |
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| Hayden, cake and fancy clothes |
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| this stuff is GOOD! |
Other parts of FUN FRIDAY included coloring on the floor. Hayden's artwork continues to get more detailed and often has an extensive backstory. Molly has discovered art supplies as one of the many things to wreak havoc with. She does try to color, but mainly she enjoys opening markers, waving them around dangerously close to marking many things and then trying to put the top back on.
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| different ages, different approaches to floor art :) |
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| a princess, flowers, a tower, sunshine, and more |
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| it's on my finger, MY FINGER!!!!! |
I also used Fun Friday to try making a whole chicken in the crockpot, plus a potato/sweet potato gratin AND harvesting our broccoli from our back deck. If the broccoli had snow on it, does it count as FRESH or FROZEN?!!!
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| broccoli ala snow |
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| harvested and ready to eat! |
Here's hoping it will snow again, and maybe we can have a REAL snow day with canceled school/work and snow soft enough for snowmen and sledding!
