Leaps and Bounds

Patrick seems to be doing a lot of growing up recently. A few weeks ago he jumped off the high dive:

Yesterday he read me an extremely detailed story about the Steelers playing a football game for literacy day: 

So it was even more bittersweet when on a recent Saturday Patrick and a friend asked me to take them to Blue Park, where they swung on the swings and raced around like the big little kids they are: 

Pinewood Derby Champs!

Patrick and The Golden Bear came in second place overall in the Pinewood Derby today!

Snow Fun

Huge breakthrough for this year's ski trip: the boys skied down the hill and hopped on the lift themselves! Madeline suffered a case of "cold toes," but everyone had fun tubing the next day.

On the lift!

Snowplow

Snow bunnies

More snow bunnies

Tubing

Ready to race

The gang

Winter Scenes

Skating with Cousin Soph

Frozen Karaoke

Taking a spin

Hosting a "sale": paper airplanes for $3 each!