Norah's growth spurt

In two months, Norah grew from 43 to 44 inches tall. We measured and measured. It's confirmed she hit a growth spurt!

Hoo's there? -- Your neighbor owl.

Last night near sunset I heard close hooting sounds by the window. We know we have owls live in the nearby trees. Jackson even picked up their feathers in the past. But we never got a chance to see them or photograph them. 

This time there were two owls hooting to each other. I've never heard so complicated hoo hoohoo sounds before. I imagined the dialog was like "Are we going out tonight? No, honey. We still have winter damage on our house and I need to call a plumber. etc..." Those two were talking right in front of our house and all of us saw the owls. I even caught one on camera. He is so cute!

Surviving Snowvid

On Friday Feb 12, Will suggested to stock up to be prepared for the weather. It's the kids' winter holiday and CNY so I took the day off. I went midday but was surprised at the traffic at Super Target. In my mind, it was just a colder cold front. I was so glad I stocked for more than a week of food as times goes on.

We had to take days off work after we lost internet on Wednesday. Life slowed down when there was no electricity, no internet and snowed in. Will concentrated on insulating the house every possible crack and surface. We watched our house temp drop to the 40es after 6 hours of power outage and lived in the fear of bursting pipes. 

I rediscovered my old hobby that doesn't count on internet and electricity like reading a paper book, photographing the snow, or just playing in the snow.

Jackson and Norah loved the days off and the time with snow. And now we proudly survived the Snowvid 2021.

Texas snowplows

Snow Angels 

Snowball fight

Sledding on a trashcan lid

Finnish Ice Candle

Fireplace was the only source heat for a couple of nights

Lake was so beautiful

We checked and made sure peacocks were okay

Managed to capture the fleeting crystals on my car

Jackson helped our neighbors build a snow fort that was so strong it didn't fall over when Jackson ran into it.

What are we doing lately?

 I noticed that our blog is a little bare lately. So what were we doing the last two months?

We made cookies!

We picked pecans.

We made picture frame

And paint it to the right color

Norah started skate boarding

We did a ton of at home learning

Jackson's at home learning corner

We did a few gingerbread houses

We had peacocks visiting our house

We started to build an outdoor table from scrap fence posts

I got into baking

I got obsessed with food photography

Our table finally finished! 

Will build a slack line. We got into balancing!