Happy Pi Day!

Today is 3.1415 - once every century! Of course we celebrated with pie, Key Lime and Chocolate Silk.

Today was also the Battle of Guilford Courthouse annual reenactment. It was wet and muddy, not as cold as it was in 1781 though. Jayden had never been to a reenactment before, or Abby. It was fun, and wet, and muddy.

 This reenactor let the kids all hold and look at his gun. I never realized that these old muskets actually had a piece of flint that struck steel to make a spark! This nice kid told us that his gun did not fire once during the reenactment, that they are really inconsistent, especially when it is wet.

When we got home the kids, Jayden included, played Revolutionary War for hours and hours. It helped that Abby was here. She has a way of making everything more exciting and fun and all 4 of my kids adore her. I call her my 5th child, but I guess with Jayden here now I should call her my 6th child :) 

The mix of star wars cloaks becoming soldiers and various and assorted weapons made me laugh. Grace made a colonial hat by wearing a sun bonnet backwards, her gun is also a random piece of wood from the garage. Abby just captured Luke and he is not very happy about it in this pic. 

 Grace and Sophie have been asking me to dye their hair colored for  quite a while know. I am not sure why exactly, but I did it for them this weekend. Sophie's is just on the ends of her bangs and Grace decided to do the whole bottom half of her hair and then cut it off eventually into a long bob. Both turned out really cute. They look so mature and grown up in this picture. So then I had to make sure and post this one too...

Best NC snow day ever!

Last week we got 6+ inches of fluffy, packable snow! The kids had never seen this much snow before. Before playing we had to get jobs done. Grace decided that shoveling would be easier then cleaning inside. I looked out the window and found her like this after 10 minutes. She has never shoveled snow before and did not realize how much work it is! Snow melts here so fast, there is usually no point in shoveling. And before you laugh at us leaving out the hammock, Just last Sunday I went out and used it. It elevates my foot perfectly. The chickens just wouldn't leave me alone. They kept pecking at my hair hanging down through the ropes. Silly birds!

We found a park in town with a great sledding hill. Parking is right at the top of the hill so I could put my foot up on the dashboard and rest it while the kids played and watch them.  We miss our front  yard sledding at William Wallace. I think all of  our neighbors do too! Our renters are not super friendly so the neighborhood kids don't feel like they can sled there anymore.

 Sophie was playing with Abby and fell jumping off the trampoline. She hurt her arm so didn't want to sled. I ended up taking her to the doctor just for them to tell me there was nothing wrong:) This was after 4 days and she was still complaining. Poor kid.