Life at the Calkins': February 2014

We made a visit up to Grammy and Grandpy's in January ... No snow yet....

But they did manage to find some ice.....

And of course eat it!

Natalie was even licking the frost off her gloves from the gates. So gross!

A little bit of frozen snow was fun to play on...

and so was Grandpy's spinning chair that he spun them all around on!

until he was more dizzy than they were.... :-)

And while Grammy was inside corrupting our pour Clara, playing poker, Nat and I went out for some fresh air... It was too nice out.. but COLD!

Since the horses were out, we snuck in the chicken coop... Natalie is saying "come here chickens".... She wanted to hold one SO BAD....

And she got one! I didn't get a picture of her holding it since I was to nervous she would squish her if I didn't assist with the process... And while we were there we noticed some eggs had been laid. Natalie wanted to get those eggs for Grammy so off we went to get a container to put them into. Grammy gave her a little snack to feed the chickens while we were in there. Natalie was so excited....

She says as were walking back to the coop, "Mom, there going to be so excited to see me!"

And that they were... She got to touch the chickens, feed them and get some eggs... she was quite happy!

And back at home we had to take a new adventure to the park with our bikes. It was a beautiful day and they had so much fun riding! It's so nice that they enjoy the same things together!

A trip is not complete to this park without a ride on the zip line....

Weeeee....!!! I couldnt' get a picture of Natalie since I didn't dare let go of her!

And now back to some cold weather and even a little snow! And you would never guess what the first thing is they did.... eat it!

Natalie is dodging some of Daddy's snow balls here....

And a little pose for the camera gal....

So you have to take notice of the difference between the photo above and below... Here Natalie is looking up into the sky at the snow ball that is about....

to hit her in the face... Lucky Daddy didn't get 2 inches closer... She is eating some of the splatter of it here!

"why do I have to stop eating the snow?"

Well... then a little ride with it will do...

Calkin Snow Angels!

The girls think it's pretty funny that Pip can carry Nat around. She is pretending to be her baby here.

And having lots of fun before her nap!

And during this nap, Clara, our very crafty little girl, wrote Daddy a nice little note about how much she loved him... then drew him a pretty picture :-) She is growing up WAY to fast!