Do you recognize this porch from an earlier post? We woke up this AM to water in places it does not belong. Damn ice damming! Water was coming through the plaster in the wall behind our bed, leeching through the ceiling in the kitchen, creating water spotting in the ceiling by the bay window and actually coming down THROUGH the vent hood onto the stove. Lego Paul (see earlier post) came to bail us out and help us chop through the ice dams on the roof. It is going to be on big clean up project come spring.
Every other Friday at the library, they bring out all the Legos and have a "build off". The kids then get to display their projects for the week in the glass cases. Beckett is ALL about Legos and found a Lego figure I did not recognize. According to him, this is Lego Paul, named fondly after our close friend and builder extraordinaire Paul. Beckett must have been very impressed by Paul's jackhammer skills on the old back steps last summer!
These two are more loved than they will ever know.
Beckett is beyond excited at the prospect of snorkeling on vacation. So, our tiny Jacques Cousteau took to the bath tub with mask and snorkel and his underwater sub. The giggles were awesome!
…there is Rodger. I suspect his trip to Lake Mac last week was a reconnaissance mission for the likelihood of snow kiting on it. He had the entire lake to himself, with the exception of the tip up town shanties of the ice fisherman near the channel. Beckett was having a hay day stepping through the drifts and falling through hip-deep snow.
Kind of bittersweet making class Valentines this year as it is likely Zoe's last before middle school. Beckett loved the glow stick idea!
What do you do, if you are Rodger, and have snow banks at the end of the driveway taller than you? Why create monkey ice sculptures of course!
Rodger took Zoe out today to run a few errands and to check out the ice on Lake Macatawa. This is likely the first time since we have moved here that the lake was completely frozen. I can't help it, seeing her stand on the ice still makes me nervous!
