Ice, Ice Baby!

Every year Plymouth, MI. has an ice festival. We went a couple of years ago and enjoyed it, so we decided to go again. We had actually gotten about 3 inches of snow the night before, about 2 1/2 inches more than we've gotten all winter, to make the experience. (Now, two days later, it's all totally melted because of the rain we received last night! We're on the national "no snow" trend here too.) The kids enjoyed the ice sculptures they could be a part of.

Eskimo Austin

Dinosaur ride.

If you notice, Karissa did not have the best of times. She wanted some of the over-priced carnival-type food, which we would not buy since we had just eaten lunch. She was also coming down with a cold.
A bench.
Polar Bear chair.

She started having more fun at the end.
Check out the giddiness! He got lots of smiles over the pink shades too. I guess we'll get him his own, since he's the only kid who actually keeps sunglasses on for more than 10 minutes.
Erik slept the whole time all cozy warm, but here he is today, on his two-month birthday! He is finally awake more, now that he's gotten over two colds, but he's caught cold number 3. Poor boy! He still slept well last night and has been pretty perky today. Overall, he's more responsive: cooing, smiling, moving his limbs more, now that he's actually awake between daytime feedings.

His favorite thing is to be playfully blotted on the mouth with his burp cloth. That what I just did here and got this huge grin!