Enjoying Time with Daddy

We've been enjoying God's little blessings in life these past couple of weeks. God was kind enough to give our little area a lovely "February thaw" of 40s temperatures for a week... enough to melt our backyard!

A surprise care package from Natalie :)

Liam especially enjoyed the puzzle and fish from cousin Portia.

Making sure the driveway is cleared of snow...

... and when it is, put some snow back on it to shovel off later!

Two days later, He decided to humor me and sent 12 more inches of snow the next two days (and since about an inch or two almost everyday- we are near the record of snowfall for February). Although Joel has been on ER this month, the past couple of weeks (not including tonight where he is still not home and told me he's only had breakfast), he's been coming home at decent times- that combined with no anatomy means lots of time spent with us :)

So what do we do when the Daddy is home??

 We play basketball with Daddy and then come home to a feast afterwards.

We read Bible stories to Daddy (until Mom tries to take a picture, to which we get annoyed and tell her "no") while he works on renovating our dining room... pictures of that to come 

 We go to Leo for baptisms (of Tashi, a Jamaican girl), get to see our Uncle B and hang out with our wonderful friends John and Amy, where we share yummy applesauce

We help Daddy shovel snow after a large snowfall 

We go to Jungle Java (with Mommy's cousin Jenny and her kids, as well as Tiffany and her kids), where Daddy surprises us and takes us on the BIG kids playground (which Mommy and her pregnant belly refuse to navigate) 

 Zion and Moriah playing in the toddler area

And last but definitely NOT least...
we watch "Banana" countless times with Daddy.

And laugh each time.