Drastic Times Call for Drastic Measures!

So much to tell you!  First let me say, "Happy New Year!"  2014 has been a very unusual year already!  This is the first time in my 6.5 years that I have been allowed to stay up to ring in the new year!!  It was amazing!!!  We had some family over for a game night and me, Myla, Levi and Evan had a great time watching movies, playing games and running around the Academy Lounge!  The adults played games and almost everyone made it to midnight!  Uncle Patrick, Melissa, mommy and daddy made it until 4:00am playing cards and dominoes!!  I think this whole staying up really late is a wonderful tradition and I can't believe I am just getting a chance to do it!!!  I am already planning next year!
Some of you may have heard of the blizzard of '78.  My parents have heard of it...but they were just babies and don't remember. People talk about it every once in a while...well now I have my own story.  I survived Snowmageddon 2014, also known as the Deep Freeze of 2014.  It started snowing Sunday morning and it snowed and snowed and snowed!  It didn't stop all day.  Depending on who you talk to, we had more than 10 inches of snow!  We were supposed to start school Monday morning, but there was just too much snow.  And the BIG story really was the temperatures!!  I survived the wind chill of -40 degrees!
It is now Wednesday and tonight was the first time I'd been out of my house!  Me and Myla were allowed to play in the snow for about 10 minutes because we are having a heat wave of 28 degrees!! Daddy went out for a little bit yesterday just to get the car cleared off and mommy went to work this morning for just a few hours. Tomorrow is Thursday and we STILL haven't been back to school yet.  Mommy thinks we will go back Friday.
Well, drastic times call for drastic measures!  I am not sure if some of you have been stuck in a little place with a 2 year old and a 6 year old before...but it gets tough to keep us entertained!  Daddy went back to work Sunday afternoon, so mommy has been working hard to keep us from going stir crazy!  We've read books, colored, watched movies, played in the bath tub, played school and started my Magic School Bus Journey Into the Human Body Experiment Kit!  I've made a ball and socket joint, learned the difference between the ball and socket and hinge joints.  I made a stethoscope and it really works!!!  We've played games, helped mommy cook and have played with every toy from Christmas we got!  We've hatched dinosaur eggs that came in our stockings, we've decorated and bedazzled Minnie Mouse (and she is as tall as Myla).  We threw boiling water outside to watch it turn into, "smoke." And finally today something happened that I was sure would never happen in our house....MOMMY LET US PLAY WITH PLAY DOH!
The icing on the cake was going outside with daddy and mommy today and playing in the snow.  It wasn't very long, but at last we could play in that glorious white stuff that has been teasing us from the window for 3 long days!!  We are loving these snow/cold days!