Chillin’ at home

I’m so grateful for our little neighborhood and house.  This is the view of what we see when we look out the front windows of our house.  To our right are some more houses and then fields and countryside right behind them.  For two weeks now it has been really cold.  The rest of the winter has hovered around 40 degrees.  The past two weeks have been in the 10-20 degree range.  We have had a lot of snow and slick roads.  We are definitely in the worst of Winter right now.  Cole and I stay home a lot right now.  I enjoy the winter from this view!!  I do feel really bad for the kids and Jared who have to brave the cold every day as they walk out the door at 7:20 am.  Most days Jared can take them and drop them at the bus stop on his way.  There are a few mornings that he has to leave earlier and then I drive them down.  With the slick roads and lots of traffic while the weather is bad we do not want them walking to the bus stop.  
Our house stays pretty warm in comparison to a lot of the older style German homes that several people I know live in.  We do get a lot of drafts through doors on the bottom floor, but otherwise its pretty warm.  We lucked out with this quiet corner with lots of kids and little traffic. 

Cole already is bugging me about going to school.  When I tell him he’s not big enough he says, “I am bigger now” and it usually leads to a frustrated three year old.  He used to say I’m ten whenever anyone asked how old he is.  He also used to be obsessed with 10 o clock and would ask all day what time it was.  When we would tell him what time it was , he would say “NO!  It’s 10 o’clock!  He went through a phase of claiming to be four years old after he got over the ten thing and now in the past few weeks is finally telling people he is three and holding up his three fingers to show them at the same time.   Like all of my little boys have done, he loves to put on hats, gloves, boots, and costumes all day every day.