Last Thursday we went to see the Nordic Museum, which was pretty awesome.
This poem was the Mayor's favorite part
This lace dress was the Hobbit Wife's favorite part
This Viking shield was Boookie's favorite part
With real battle damage!
The longboats were Ela's favorite part
Seimi and Eejee both agreed that this model of the Swedish ship "Vasa" was their favorite part
Seimi and Eejee made a LEGO model of the Vasa and Seimi wrote out his summary of a Swedish-Danish naval battle that happened a few decades after the Vasa sank.
Inspired by all the ships, Seimi had this LEGO Viking ship constructed within 45 minutes of coming home from the museum trip.
Several of our hobbitling-Vikings recently sustained battle injuries. Eejee had a brief 2AM trip to the ER to help with some breathing. Eejee is all mended up and is back to adventuring.
Boookie underwent surgery on both feet this week, but he is also mending well.
The Mayor made Eejee and Seimi custom cardboard-duct tape Viking helmets today, which they eagerly put to use.
Eejee has an intense dislike of lettuce. Whenever it is part of a meal, he has taken to intentionally falling asleep at the table in order to avoid being made to eat lettuce.
This is both unacceptable and funny (notice all the grins in the window reflection). We're working on this!
The Mayor celebrated his 39th birthday yesterday and his mama made him these awesome hummingbird potholders. The hummingbird potholders go nicely with the hummingbird tattoo the Hobbit Wife gave him for his birthday (she paid for it, but let a professional do the needle work).
The Mayor has greatly enjoyed storing food outside in the snow. There is nothing quite like grabbing a shovel to dig up a vat of meatballs that you buried a couple days ago. There isn't much snow left in the yard, but the Mayor is going to keep living like a caveman as long as possible.
You can file this under "Things They Don't Teach in Food Handling Class."
After two weeks of crazy snow, we're starting to get back to a semblance of normal. A week ago, we were doing crazy things like getting a pub lunch delivered to our house on Monday.
The melting snow created our own mini polar ice.
Now we're doing normal things like eating a LEGO pub lunch,
pretending to be pillows,
and celebrating the one-year anniversary of Lee's miraculous repair by Grammy!
Seimi and Eejee taking shelter from the rain in the remains of the snow fort.
The mail was delayed due to the snow, so Valentine's Day LEGOs were assembled a few days late.
We woke this morning to find the snow was deeper than ever, although the temperature is beginning to climb, so today is probably the beginning of the end.
Lamp post with a funny snow hat.
Somewhere in this corner of the yard is Bookie's ruler, buried far above the 12" mark. We have over 15 inches of accumulated snow in areas where we haven't trampled it down.
Here's a time-lapse video of us building a snow fort and then having a snowball fight.
Getting the Sons of Thunder into position for a photo.
Posing with the completed snow fort!
Rosy cheeks after playing outside.
It's currently rain mixed with snow, but it's been a fun Staycation/Snopocalypse while it lasted!
The snow has continued to fall and we've been enjoying being snowed in. We got lots of cooking ahead done (below is a picture of a pot of soup cooling in the snow on Friday night).
Snowy morning views.
We've been hovering between 8 and 12 inches of snow, depending on where we are at between snowfalls.
Footprints out to the hummingbird feeder.
Lots of inside time to read.
Here is Doggy Lee reading alongside Seimi.
Lots and lots of screentime - we moved the computers from the Mayor's shop into the corner of Ela's room.
Nice and cozy!
And of course, lots of opportunities to play outside in the snow.
