Thursday, February 11, 2010

dog days of winter

Our 4th not-so-miraculous-anymore snow storm settled over Lubbock this morning, covering everything in 2 inches of white, slushy yuck.  So, we prepared to hunker down for the day.  By 8 a.m. Stuey was requesting his 3rd dvd and I wasn't sure I was going to make it through the day without putting a boot through the TV screen.  But thanks to the inspired example of a good friend, I decided to give the morning a theme to mix things up a bit. We dubbed today "the dog day of winter."
Behold...


We colored dog pictures with markers--a special treat at our house (even the washables manage to stain things.) (And speaking of inspired--by a true stroke of genius I thought to purchase a couple 200 ft. rolls of Christmas wrapping paper when it was on sale for $1 at Walmart. We use it ALL the time. Next year I'm buying 4 rolls.)



We ate our snacks and drank our water from dog bowls. We also read every story book in the house that included a dog character and then practiced panting and barking and wagging our tails.




Here is Stuey's tail. I did take a picture of Whitney's tail but won't be including it here. By the time I got around to taking pictures of the tails Whitney had pulled out her braids and taken all her clothes off. I feel like including a picture of that would be admitting defeat. But her hair WAS braided and she WAS wearing clothes for a couple hours today, and Goonies never say die.

4 comments:

Kerri said...

lovin' the theme...we've had that theme here for a few days in a row...although we go between cats and dogs! cookies super easy melted almond bark piped onto wax paper. So fun. Shark not so easy a twinkie cut and frosted and fruit by the footed! love you

Lindsey said...

Hellooooo??? What do you mean Walmart had 200ft rolls of wrapping paper on sale for $1??? And I missed it? That sounds like such a big bucket full-o-fun! Good job turning a frustrating morning into a happy day, Mama.

k_laurelle said...

is this the comment rob thought was cracked out lol. he's dumb makes sense to me to haha

Amelia Jane said...

I love it! You are so clever becky! I almost wish I could have been there to participate.