Birthday Weekend #1

Things are still pretty challenging around here. Heaps and heaps of snow are everywhere and even more is falling tonight. Maddy has another snow day tomorrow (I would assume it was a secret birthday wish of hers, but even she is sick of snow days!)

On the upside, all that snow makes a nice barrier between us and the traffic. This is helpful for the hike to our car as we'll probably not be able to park near our house until June!



On Saturday morning we had to divide and conquer. Bob had to go on a Girl Scout Cookie mission while Maddy and I took the subway to her swim lesson. Maddy never misses an opportunity to reenact her favorite scene from the movie Elf.



In the afternoon, we had a little time to organize our cookies before shipping the kids off on their first sleepover...



...at Auntie Tricia and Uncle Kenny's house. Grandma and Grandfather had to postpone their trip here due to the weather, and since we still needed a sitter for Bob's office party, we thought this would be a great time to break in our new Auntie.



They had a great time watching movies and having ice cream sundaes.



Half of the kids acted reasonable at bedtime. The other half shall remain nameless, Audrey Lynn.



For breakfast, there were 'birthday pancakes' with sprinkles and whipped cream. I didn't think they'd ever want to come home again!



We ran some errands in the snowy and slushy Harvard Square before the birthday girl got to pick a restaurant for lunch. Maddy picked our new favorite place, JW's!



After lunch, all we had to do was hunker down (again), wait for the next 18-24 inches of snow and bake a birthday cake!