Frozen Flood

Our river has decided to exceed its boundries. The funny thing about this flood to me is that most of the water is still frozen. It just looks strange to see huge sheets of ice rising on the water! Karl was sand bagging at neighbors' houses for most of the day, and went in to work at about 7 this evening. I think he'll deserve his sleep tonight! The water is currently returning to its banks, but we're not sure if it will continue to go up or down from here. I'll keep you posted! Our driveway seems a little more impassable than yesterday. The building in the background is our greenhouse, it had water flowing though it most of the day. I took this picture after the water started going down.

The view from our living room. The water was within about 15-20 feet of our house. The white out in the middle is the frozen mass of river water.

Stuck in the Muck

Our driveway is a little, um... un-drivable these days, and today, Heidi decided it wasn't very passable on foot either . We were going to go for a walk together, and I sent her out while I got Hannah and I ready to go. A few minutes later, I opened the door to see her standing in one place and singing at the top of her lungs. (I think the song was something about being stuck in the mud and Jesus is alive). The standing in one place was due to being "wary stuck!" and the singing was just because. I mean, what would you do while waiting to be rescued?

Brilliant!

Mr. Wonderful offered to feed Hannah last night so I could shower (yes, I do try to squeeze that in once or twice a week whether I need it or not) and he had the same problem I do: Hannah getting distracted by Heidi, and thus not eating properly. Difference was, he came up with a solution: Have Heidi feed Hannah! It worked great, and both girls were thrilled! Maybe I ought to have him do things for me more often so I can learn how to do them better!

In other news, Hannah likes boxes...

and grapes!

Poor Heidi

There are some things a firstborn never gets to experience. Such as having an older sibling who drops brownie crumbs on the floor where you can find them. Somebody got introduced to chocolate a little sooner than I had planned.

Spring is on the Way

As evidenced by the first flock of robinns in the snow outside our window and the mud pit which resembles our driveway and needs a "4x4 only" sign at its begining. Yes, Spring must be on its way!

Storm

Tuesday we went to bed with a wet, muddy mess outside our door. I can't say it was overly pretty, but it was making me think spring may be on its way. Wednesday morning, we woke up to this: We've gotten nearly a foot of snow already, and it's still coming down. Heidi loves it and keeps telling me, "It's snowing very loud!" I think the word she wants is "hard", but as usual, she insists that she is correct. I'm still looking forward to spring, but for now I'm being thankful that it's ever so much easier to clean up a little girl after she has been making snow pies than it is to clean the same girl after an afternoon of making those pies out of mud. We've also been without power on and off over the past couple of days and I have discovered a couple of things:
1.)living by candle and lantern light makes Heidi very hyper
2.)that same dim lighting frightens Hannah
3.)this is not a good combination
Other than constantly being at my little one's side, we've been having a good time here. Hannah is quickly working on becoming mobile. She schooched (if that's a word or even how you spell it) a good five feet to capture this prize:

Heidi loves to love on Hannah

Even with all that snow outside, we still can't build snowmen as this silly Manitoba snow doesn't pack properly so we've taken to building some inside.

Hannah's modeling a headband for me that I made as a gift for a friend's newly arrived daughter

Baby Steps

My baby girl is gowing out of these shoes. For some silly reason, I always shed a few tears when I have to put away clothing items my girls have outgrown. It seems to be a tangible reminder of how fleeting time is and how quickly these "little" years go by Another discouraging thing about her being too big for the littlest shoes, is that I really don't have any in the next size up that I like. For Heidi, we just made do with thrift store finds, and it seems that boy shoes are more quickly dicarded in this area than girl. Either that or all the girl moms got there before me. So today I decided to do something about that and set to work designing some femimine little shoes for my Hannah. I thought they turned out okay for a first try, but don't look too close, there's lots of mistakes. I'm so happy God gave me girls to sew for!