Carrot nose, Twizzler mouth

Lexi really, really wanted to build a snowman yesterday. Or so she said. As it turns out, what she really wanted to do was throw snowballs at my head while I built her a snowman.


A spring snowman is an unusual creature because his mouth can be made out of Twizzlers colored for Easter.


The weekend's snow also brought an opportunity for me impart an important life lesson: Never eat yellow snow.



Yes, I know. She's a snow angel.

"Dream girl"

Of course, on days when Miss Jessica sends home notes with words like "no listening ears" and "rough day," I tend to think she is uninformed and impatient.

But when I get notes like this one, well, that's what I realize just how smart and intuitive Miss Jessica actually is.

Three months of parties

You wanna know why I haven't been blogging lately? It's not laziness or hecticness or utter depression. No. It's because I've been hauling Lexi all over town to birthday parties for the past three months.


The most exciting, naturally, was her own. And who wouldn't be excited with a gem of a cake like that?


Lexi's birthday was on March 5, but the celebration went on for weeks. Above is a shot from her party at our house, at which she received Bendaroos and a whole stable of My Little Ponies.



The most recent party was Saturday at Lauryn's and included rosy cupcakes, little sammiches, dress-up and general girliness.



The previous party was the previous Saturday at McDonald's in honor of Lexi's B.F.F., Emma. It included cheeseburgers, sock feet and more Bendaroos.



Back in January, it was Kyle's birthday, which included a dog shape caked, dog bone shaped sammiches and a rockin' game of hot potato with a dog bone.



Brian's party had bowling. 'Nuff said.



And way back at the beginning of January was a party for Coop, who turned 4 first and with the greatest style. Cha cha cha.

The party tour is over now. I think. Time to get back to blogging.