Meet "Aladdie Kuperus"

Due to the fact that the number of time-outs our children (not Miriam...yet) receive in a day seems to be directly proportionate to the number of days they have been locked inside the house, yesterday seemed to be a good day to build a snowman.

So, Daddy, Esther and Peter ventured outside to attempt this great task. Esther rolled the snowball until it got too big, Peter kicked the snowball until it broke, and Daddy started all over again and finally made a snowball the right size. The other two snowballs essentially were formed with the same process.

The kids thought decorating was quite fun. We used Girl Scout Peanut Butter Cookies (much to Mommy's dismay) for eyes, a potato for a nose, grapes for a mouth, and fruit snacks for buttons (much to Peter's dismay....but he got to eat the ones we didn't use). When Esther announced that the snowman was a GIRL snowman, Mommy became worried over where Daddy was going to use the two plastic cups.....she was happy to see we used them for ears. We finished it off with a hat that says "Palm Beach" on it, hoping it might help speed spring time along.

Esther then named the snowman....I mean snowgirl. She named her Aladdie Kuperus. "You know," she said. "Like in the song!" Well the song she is referring to is "Did You Ever See a Laddie".....we didn't have the heart to tell her Aladdie wasn't a name.