SLIME

Our activity this morning came from a question.
Levi gets to ask one question every night before bed.  (A rule that started because he would call us back to his room multiple times after being put to bed...telling us he "had a question."  Gotta love sleep stall tactics!)  Anyway, I don't usually hear the questions because I do the books part of the bed time routine and Gabe does the final tucking in/one question part.

With Gabe out of town, I've had the pleasure of hearing (and trying to answer) Levi's questions.  They usually sound something like: "My one question is...what is __________________ made of?"
One night last week the question was: "What is frogs skin made of?"
My answer of skin cells wasn't quite good enough I guess because Levi chimed in, "What about slime?"  I tried to explain that some frogs might feel slimy because they need their skin to stay moist but slime isn't really part of it.  So, we agreed to make our own slime!

This morning we took a quick trip to the store for the needed supplies:
A little bit of Borax
Some clear glue (We were hoping to get sparkle glue but our Freddie's didn't have any.)

We added water and a little green food coloring.  Slime was made!
(And I think we've gotten at least an hour of entertainment out of it today!)

Sledding at White River

Our original plan for this holiday weekend was to take our trailer up to Mt. Hood and get some serious sledding time in on the mountain.  But with Gabe's last minute trip to Florida (he got home at 1am on Saturday morning) and his trip to North Carolina/Virginia this week (he leaves at 8am tomorrow...yes, on the holiday) we could only get up there for the day.

And a beautiful day it was.

As you can see, it was clear up on the mountain (although the wind was pretty fierce from time to time).  We got an early start and were on the hill about 9am.  The very first ones!  AWESOME!

We did lots of sledding and when it got really busy about 11.  Levi was pretty tired and ready for some "warm" cocoa.
Oh, I almost forgot the snow angels too!

Listen for the giggles of complete glee!

Early Valentine's Day

Since Gabe will be out of town for the next two weeks.  (First in FL, then in NC...last minute meetings with customers about the power unit he designed.)
We celebrated an early Valentine's day around here this weekend.
First, Levi and I made cards.

That's all we can show you since the grandparents (our loyal blog readers) will be receiving one in the mail this week!

Then for our "Valentine's" dinner tonight Gabe made this.  We had spinach fettuccine as the pasta.
Gabe and I loved it!  Levi not so much.  I don't understand why our child doesn't like pasta.  He had leftover cod.

This afternoon I whipped this up:

I LOVE chocolate mousse.  And I wasn't disappointed in this recipe.  Yummy!
Levi did approve of dessert.  The strawberries we added on top instead of more whipped cream helped with that I'm sure.  Not a big surprise!

Since we were busy with home projects in January (and because Gabe will be gone for much of the next two weeks) we took a family trip to the zoo yesterday.
We saw baby elephant Lily again.  And were please to see the tigers out.  They are always hiding in the back of their enclosure.

And Gabe did get one more home project off the to-do list.  Gutters are clean!
I sure hope the work week goes quickly!  It's tough to have Gabe three time zones away...