Sneeeeew

The snow has finally stopped. In untouched spots there is over 4 feet of snow. We got hit with snow all week. Trevor was shoveling snow just to go out hours later and shovel 6 more inches. School was canceled on Thursday and Friday. We have had a great 4 day weekend shoveling snow. Maddyn calls the snow "Snneeeew". It is so cute. She loved playing outside. We could not get her to come in. When she finally did, she would cry for a half hour while her hands and feet warmed up and hurt.



Trevor's parents have a bunch of chickens down a little ways from their house. This is the beginning of the trail they had to dig to get to them. It was waist deep most of the way.
This is Maddyn and Trevor almost ready to go into the Chicken Coupe.

This is the entrance to the coupe. You can tell how much snow there is here. All the chickens survived!!!

This is our side fence that is 4 feet tall. Trevor was able to walk right up to it.

Maddyn wanted to help with every bit of the work.

Even plowing the snow with a four wheeler.

This is the front of our house. We almost can't see out our windows.

Trevor trying to get back to our satellite so that we can watch TV. It is up to his waist. Some of the trees that are small are completely covered.

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What we have been up to

Well it is a snow day today and I finally get a chance to sit down and blog. We are getting DUMPED on. I will post pictures later when it stops snowing. The last two days we have woke up with 8 inches each morning. This morning we woke up and it was a blizzard and it has not stopped.

Maddyn has been learning so much lately. She found my therapy blocks and decided to prove to me why I became a therapist. As you can see in the pictures, there are holes in the top of the container. Well she decided she wanted to try to put the shapes through the correct holes. However, she does not know shapes and would try to shove the square through the circle. When she would do this and it would not work, she would clinch her fists and teeth, hold her breath and scream. I thought her eyeballs were going to pop out of her head. I had to teach her how to do deep breathing techniques so she wouldn't get so mad. After that every time she got mad we had to say "Maddyn just breath". I can't believe I had to teach my 22 month old anger management.

This is also what we do every waking moment of the day, Sing If Your Happy and You Know it!!! My mom got her this book and she LOVES it. We can't just sing the song, we have to have the book there also. I am working on getting the video up also.

Maddyn is also loving taking pictures of herself. She calls the camera a Cheese. I think she looks like a little girl in this picture. She also insists on wearing a necklace if mom is.

This is a picture of me at 24 weeks. I am getting close to the third trimester. I feel good, but I have had a horrible cough for 2 months. The doctor finally gave me an inhaler. Maddyn wants to crawl all over my belly and have me carry her everywhere.

Christmas

This year was so fun with a little one. We took so many videos. If you want to see how funny Maddyn was check out all of our videos at www.dropshots.com/trevorandniki . We started out the morning by having to wake Maddyn up. Trevor and I were up the night before until 11:00 p.m. putting together her toys. We came up with the idea to wrap her presents so they were ready to be played with when they came out of the wrapping. Lucky for us we did this; she had one present from a friend that was in the box and she freaked out. She ran to get the hammer to get the toy out of the box quicker (see the video on dropshots). When she came out she first saw her car that santa had brought. Every toy opened there after had to be placed in the trunk of the car. If the toy did not fit, then she would freak out (see video on dropshots als0). Maddyn has not stopped playing with this car since. She gets so mad if we move it out of the living room to clean. Opening presents took us 2 hours. Maddyn wanted to play with each toy before she opened the next. We stopped to eat snacks a few times also. Maddyn made out with some fantastic presents that she loves: magnadoodle, princess shoes and purse, rocking horse, little cars, money, a huge minnie, and a shopping cart. I can't wait for next christmas when she understands that there is a Santa!




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