Whew!!
We have spent the 3 days following Christmas thawing out. The snow is finally melting, and our street looks like Glacier Bay right now, with water and little icebergs everywhere. I snapped a couple fun pics of christmas lights in the snow before the meltoff began in earnest.
Here is a pic of our front yard at night, followed by our next door neighbors' yard lights peering out from the snow...
With the roads finally navigble, we spent most of the weekend in Seattle, taking the kids to the Pacific Science Center to check out the planetarium, the dinosaurs, and the butterflies. Both kids loved the butterflies especially, and we were very impressed at Mackenzie's self control. She never once tried to touch a butterfly! Of course I am sure we will pay for all of that self restraint at some point:)
On Sunday I took Jackson to the Huskies basketball game, where Jackson made his first ever purchase. He chose to invest his $5 of Halloween money from his grandma on a purple foam #1 finger. When asked later if he was sad that he didn't have his $5 anymore or if he was happy that he now had a foam finger, he said he's happy that he has the foam finger. So no buyers remorse after purchase #1. I think the most exciting element of his purchase was carrying his money in his wallet and digging it out to pay for the foam finger, holding up a line of 5 customers for a good couple of minutes in the process.
While we went to the game, Mackenzie and Steph did a little power shopping. Mackenzie is still happily oblivious to how things get paid for. I think Steph is trying to make sure we don't stunt her shopping growth by introducing fiscal responsibility at too early an age.
So we're back to work tomorrow. I'll wrap up with another Kenzie carol... Away in a Manger
