First Flurries of the Season!

Yes, it flurried like mad out there Monday afternoon! In the morning it was sleeting! Mike ran into flurries on his way to work, it was just raining here until about 11am... and after that it was sleet and flurries. BRRRR. Around 2pm it was a blizzard out there! Fortunately none of it stuck.


Just thought I would post some interesting weather facts... while we were trick or treating at the first house (sweet old couple) they said that not too long ago there was a blizzard on Halloween... I found it on this website: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mkx/wiwx.php
"Halloween Snow Storm - October 31- November 2, 1991. Northwest and west central Wisconsin. 15 to 30 inches of snow. 6 to 10 foot drifts" As well as some interesting weather info on Couderay: "State's record coldest temperature -55 F set in Couderay on February 2nd and 4th 1996"
Mike finally got his weather center up and running - and it automatically updates hourly at http://www.redwing.net/~kdemarr/mikespage.htm it is the accurate weather from our house ;) Of course the temp gauge only goes to -21, so if it gets colder than that it will read an error... we did have a few days last year that were -32! I will eventually get a website up and running on our free space from our internet provider... but for now you will all just have to settle for the weather page ;)



****Several people have told me that they've had problems trying to post comments on the blog... I am going to have to guess that the problem is that I usually leave a blog I'm working on active and up on the computer for days at a time... so maybe if I start logging out of blogger (it saves drafts anyway, so I don't have to worry about losing them) people will be able to leave comments... so go ahead and try commenting again.****




What else has been going on this week?? Beatrice has not had any screaming fits - so now I'm convinced that it was my eating the spicy chipotle sauce from McDonald's like 3 days in a row that caused her such discomfort. So, no more spicy chipotle :(





Beatrice has slept through the night for the past week and a half!! Of course last night she woke up around 3am, but I think it was only because the dog was whining... that stupid dog! Jo-Jo is afraid of the dark... she jumps at the door to get in once it starts getting dark out... now with the time change it's pitch black by 5 or so - and it's nearly impossible to make her go out after dark. The other night she started whining at midnight, so last night I made sure she went out around 9... well she must have eaten some food when she went out because last night she was whining at midnight so I got up and let her out... then she was whining at 3am, 5am, 6am... ugh! I refused to let her out again, thinking I didn't want her to make a habit of having to go out in the middle of the night... and I won't even finish this story because it ends in tragedy with me dragging the kennel out the back door and scrubbing the floor at 6am...





Both little ones are congested and have runny noses :( I think it's because Duncan pretended to eat (and put his mouth on) some fake food at playgroup...


We got a really awesome electric stove heater :) it's so pretty :) and nice and warm :) Of course after a couple of days we realized that the kitchen was freezing because the house heater wasn't kicking on... so we have to move the electric heater from beneath the thermostat... it was the perfect place to put it if it weren't for the thermostat... so now we have to do a little rearranging...




Duncan has taken it upon himself to start yelling at himself when he's doing something naughty... He'll stand up on the couch and jump and yell at himself "sit downs!" he'll climb on top of his toy box and yell at himself "no kimbins dit downs!" He's become such a parrot! He repeats just about everything he hears, including random phrases from the television. He still loves playing inside his toy box... and I'm teaching him the colors green, yellow and brown in an interesting way ;) (just threw that in to see if anyone actually reads this).









Maria is doing good. Madly in love with the high school musical hat and gloves I picked up for her yesterday at Wal-Mart - she wore the hat all night. Oddly she was way too exited about the Wisconsin tests this week. Couldn't wait all weekend... the night before the tests started the truth came out - they were giving away FREE BREAKFAST at school on the testing days! If it's got to do with food, Maria is excited about it. "Mom, can I join the D.A.R.E. program at school? It's got something to do with drugs, I can't remember what it stands for, but at the end of it there's an ice cream party!"


Beatrice found her thumb! and keeps finding it ;) it's damn cute! And she is holding on to toys :)