This just has to be its own post, because I don't want this picture to get lost on the shuffle of large posts.
Poor Beezy is slowly crawling around. But sometimes your mom puts you in a dress. And the dress gets int he way of your moving knees. So you lift your knees, And suddenly you're on your feet- and your hands, And you don't know how to get back down! Help! Mama! I'm stuck! Why are you grabbing that camera?!?
We were invited to the Chinese New Year celebration at the Clemson Chinese Christian Church (Brandon loves that- CCCC).
Luckily, we had our Chinese New Year clothes ready for the occasion.
Don't worry. We layered turtlenecks and tights underneath it. It's still really cold and windy down here. We're not used to multiple days of temps below 40, let alone weeks!
Yet our kids still manage to spend their time mostly naked. Being absolutely adorable.
Of course June is wearing a strapless beach cover-up. Thanks for the cool suitcase, Grams!
We had to really bundle up to go stand outside to sell Girl Scout cookies. Apparently, 1st grade is when you become too cool to wear a hat when you're outside for 2 hours and it's 30 degrees.
Later, we went to a birthday party for our friend, Abby. Abby's parents throw awesome, whole-family birthday parties. This year they had a Frozen-themed dance party at the local dance studio.
Georgie was super into it. So many Frozen songs.
And fun games.
Plus Georgie was always right up front, so there were lots of cute pictures taken.
They also caught this moment when June and I were practicing our "Statue of Liberty" pose.
But when it came down to the dancing, June wasn't quite as enthusiastic.
In the end, Georgie downed a pixy stick. (Why is it so hard for kids to not put their mouths on them?!)
The first day of the ice storm (but the second day off of school, remember) was fun. But the ice all melted by noon and there was just a bunch of mud outside. Then we got word in the afternoon what school was cancelled AGAIN on Wednesday! Ugh!
Even though all the ice had melted, the girls still had to huddle together under blankets to keep warm.
Everyone is huddled under blankets because they refuse to wear socks, or shirts. But shirts might get in the way of trying to move a cookie from your nose to your mouth without your hands.
Bea has mastered how to get food into her mouth with no hands too. She's got a mom for that. And she LOVES miso carrot soup.
Miss Kerri constructed another #icedin scavenger hunt. This one was fun because what she was looking for was open to interpretation. Plus, the first task was to do a chore and the last task was to put everything away.
Georgie thought it was so fun, the big kids designed another hunt for her.
No one let Beatrice go outside. Instead she stayed inside and kept warm eating homemade beignets. Mom made a big batch of dough and kept the fryer handy to fry up a few at a time all day long.
We've got to keep those cheeks chubby!
Bea got some alone time with mom and dad when they pushed her around on the bed, which is sooo funny.
Clearly, bedtime is a very calm, soothing time in this house.
Mom pulled out Bea's quilt and finished more lattice-work. Maybe she'll get her newborn quilt done by Bea's first birthday.
June decided she wanted shorter hair. Mom was more than happy to oblige.
Not too bad! Mom was really in a hair cutting mood, but Henry still wouldn't let anyone close to his hair.
The kids made it to school and we dropped off Gerogie at preschool just in time to find out that all of the schools were closing preemptively due to the threat of bad weather.
Come on, South Carolina. The bad weather isn't even supposed to start until 3p and you're dismissing schools before 10?
But I will admit, it is pretty cold. Southern furnaces just can't keep up when it gets below freezing.
At 5pm, we were a little bummed that it hadn't started snowing yet, so we snuck off to clothe the cold- specifically the statue in front of the elementary school.
We know we're dorks, but Juliet and I did feel a little dangerous.
The weather did eventually start (after they'd already cancelled school for the following day), but it never really made it to snow. No matter, because I do enjoy a good ice storm.
And the ice was really thick!
June and Georgie headed out to check out the splendor.
And to eat icicles.
And to pelt their mother with them too.
I really liked it when it warmed up and started to thaw just a bit.
You could slide the ice off the magolia leaves in one solid piece.
We started a fun collection.
Georgie tried to toll a snowball, but didn't get past this.
Next we headed over to pick up the Davis girls.
I love snowdays. The whole neighborhood comes out.
The ice was really good on the long hill, so the kids decided to sled on that.
You can pick up some speed over ice on a smooth surface.
But after a few times down, I decided that sledding quickly down asphalt without a helmet was a bad idea. Lame, mom.
This group was not happy about my decision.
But we moved to the front yard, where the slope was steeper and you have to overcome a huge bump to get up on the road. I'm not sure if it was that much safer. You can tell at this point it was really starting to warm up. We'd all cast off our hats and unbuttoned our coats. And Georgie had to give Henry and Katie a kick to get them going.
Even though it was really cold and windy (and not even just for our thin southern blood), we all packed up the car and headed to Atlanta to see Sister Mary.
And the circus! How cool is it that our aunt travels with the circus as a spiritual leader?
The rest of the kids didn't want to go, but Georgie and I went down to the floor of the show before it started to meet the performers.
Georgie already has the right tights for the circus.
We all got red clown noses and started getting excited.
The circus really was three rings of fun. And Sister got us really great seats so we could see everything! Including the 10 motorcyclists inside the sphere!
And we ate cotton candy!
This show had everything. Including a pretty lady hanging from a motorcycle on a tightrope!
I sweat June had more fun than she let on.
The fun ended up being too much to bear and Georgie fell asleep on Sister's lap.
Thanks for sharing your birthday with us, Sister Mary!
