- Iris has been in ice skating lessons this winter. She's doing pretty well! At least, she's spending more time on her feet than falling on the ice, which is an improvement. Felix passed on the opportunity this year. Instead, Nick has been taking him to the batting cages in preparation for baseball this summer.
- Nick's parents stopped by for a nice, long visit in mid-January. Lately, their visits have ended with dinner at Mikey's in Plover. No complaints there!
- We had friends over for a fancy dinner party, complete with charcuterie and cheese board. We're so adult! We let the kids join us for dinner and they behaved beautifully. Maybe we should do this more often...
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| Awaiting our guests. |
- Iris sold Girl Scout cookies for the first time. She demolished her goal of 5 boxes. :o)
- We joined friends for an art show preview at UWSP and snagged ourselves a lovely blown glass bowl offered by a student artist. Yay, atsy centerpieces!
- We then had my parents over for dinner and visiting before they departed on a trip to Mexico.
- I spent three days home with Iris, who was struck down by the flu. Poor girl! Her fever took a while to be gone completely, but all she needed was ibuprofen and rest to get better. Fortunately, no one else in the family was hit at the same time.
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| Practicing camouflaging while home sick. |
- We once again joined the friends we had over for our dinner party when we got together in Wausau for a WPR event - dinner and an Old Time Radio Drama (The Canterville Ghost). It was a lot of fun.
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| Dapper gentlemen |
- Most excitingly of all, the kids competed in the rescheduled Badger State Games and Tri-Norse ski jumping tournaments yesterday. Despite the weather being either 5 or 45 degrees lately, there was enough snow for the tournaments to proceed. This was our first winter tournament, and so it was definitely a new experience! Pretty busy in the chalet, but it was low 30s and snowy, so being outside wasn't so bad. Felix was disappointed that the snow in his eyes made seeing when to jump difficult, so he wasn't happy with his second place finish. It's a learning experience and we're so proud of both of them. Iris didn't have any competition in the U6F class, but she did her best and had fun. We got to watch jumps on all the hills before the awards ceremony, which was pretty cool.
- In case you haven't noticed, the Olympics have been on. Since we stream our TV, we've been able to pick what we want to watch on delay. We've been watching a lot of curling (naturally), picking up the finer points of ski jumping, and exposing the kids to interesting sports like skeleton and freestyle aerials skiing. I admit, I'm cheering for the Norwegian men's curling team's pants as much as any American athlete... ;o)
Much more is in store for us in the coming months, so stay tuned!
Awesome thing(s): The Olympics, The Good Place, huge BSG medals
Felix: 8.5 yrs & Iris: 5 yrs
