Still

We have been snowed in here in Atlanta since Monday, January 10th, with no end in sight. I had joked that we needed a sabbatical after celebrating 6 birthdays over the weekend with 5 get togethers. That was a lot of fun to pack into a weekend! So, a week of being still and enjoying each other was in order.

Jack, Bodie and David, sledding.

Jack LOVES the snow. He stays outside and does not want to come in. The cold doesn't bother him at all. Bodie, not so much.

Bodie+frigid temps= a face like this.

Action shot, sledding

Brothers and blizzard. :)

In the past 2 days. We have been home. On day 2, I am still in my P.J.'s with no apologies. The great thing about snow days is that you have no plans and any plans you thought you had are gone with the warm temperatures. I have had time to enjoy my children and listen, hear and take in the adorable things they say. We have the time to talk and listen this week. Isn't that nice?

Bodie: (as we walk East down our street, a direction that we never walk, but the direction of great sledding) "Ah! This is how we Twick or Tweet, mom!" (in his deep Bodie voice.) We do walk this way on Halloween, of course.

Jack: "MOM! Sam has a dimple on the left side of his cheek and so do IIIII!" "Me too, Jack!" I exclaimed. "We all THREE have the same dimple???!!!! Of course, because Sam is exactly like me! And, I am just like you?" (confused look from Jack.) The first time anyone has ever drawn a relationship between me and Jack and us favoring one another. Needless to say, the boy was perplexed. Genes are funny that way.

Bodie: (sitting beside me watching "Regis and Kelly"- I almost never watch A-dult T.V. with the boys at home) "Mom, is this Hannah Montana?"

Jack: "I am 55 pounds!" Me: "Really?? I thought you were 45 pounds." Jack: "No, 55 pounds, I grow really well because I am on vacation."

Sam: Cooing to his heart's content! Cooing sporadically, Sam seems so surprised at himself. This just started yesterday, it arrived with the snowstorm. ;)

Me to Jack: "How are you doing out here? Are you cold?" Jack: "No, I am fine. (Pause, looks around.) I am not cold because I have two pairs of undies on!!!"
*smile*

Savoring the moment(s),