Cabin Fever

The weather this weekend has been extremely crazy.  We had a snow day on Friday (in all honesty, a 2 hour delay would have been sufficient), an ice storm Friday night and a cold enough day on Saturday that the ice did not melt.  The sun came out Sunday and took all of the ice away.  Monday morning brought the rain, which passed through early afternoon leaving the sun shining away and 60+ degree temps. 

I wanted to go out and take pictures of the ice on Saturday, but I decided not to tempt fate.  My luck I would have fallen and broken a bone, or even worse broken my camera.  When the sun was melting the ice on Sunday morning, I took a couple of pictures, but the pictures didn't come out as true as the real thing.

By Sunday Bobby was climbing the walls with boredom.  Since the ice melted the ground was saturated and muddy, not ideal conditions to go outside and play.  We called Grandma Carolyn, told her that we were coming to get her and going to go to lunch then take Bobby to the Middletown Mall (the old Fairmont mall) and let him run around inside.  He knew exactly where we were and he was happy to walk around the mall a couple of times.  After his walk he sat down and ate his french fries at the Mexican restaurant at the mall. 

We stayed and visited with Grandma Carolyn after lunch.  Bobby found a new "toy,"  Grandma's plant stand.  Grandma took the plants out and let him play.

Saturday evening when we were back at home, Bobby did something that Grandma Prahl considered taboo...

It is bad luck to open an umbrella inside!!

Obviously I had to take Bobby outside to play when we got home from school today.  After all the temps were in the 60s.  It was even muddier and muckier than before but poor Bobby is an outdoor boy. 

Oh no!  He found water!!!

Major wind gusts!!!  It was even too windy to blow bubbles.

He lifted the big blue bucket on top of the water and kept peeking in, not sure what he was hoping to find.  After this we had to come in, he was wet from head to toe!!