Aunt Kari and Uncle Tony hang out (Francesca watches a video.)

Voila!

Fun Uncle Tony is an excellent cookie supervisor

Fun Uncle Tony stopped by for a visit on his way to Seattle!

Who now, in an instant, does NOT want to be in class...

"I wanna be wiff YOU, mom. I DON'T WANTTOBEINCLASS!!" End scene.

What a handsome athlete!

Uh oh. Mom has been spotted.

Blaize did so well for the first half hour of class.

(Note: teacher Natalie is dealing with some other kid having a not-following- instructions- breakdown...)

After a half hour outside, the cold finally won out, forcing kids back inside...

As you can see, Blaize was fairly miserable for a short time. He kept scraping up ice with his cloth mittens to eat said ice and his mittens quickly got completely soaked... see bright red hands from the cold. (Mom ordered waterproof gloves for both kids that day.)

In case you missed the icicles on the bicycles....

Same day, 10 minutes later.

On a recent cold day in Portland

Portland Public Schools and Blaize's preschool closed Thursday anticipating snow that never came. Mom left work early so Dad could go to an appointment (a class that had been annoyingly canceled for the same (s)Nopocalyse reason) and we walked around the cold block, that was, it must be said icy in places.

This pic hot off the presses: Daddy and Blaize picnic in the park. Note: blue sky!!

Frost Trahan Construction

Moving on to the construction corner.

Figuring out the sailboat thing.

(Technically this is pre-figuring.)

Second take

Blaize, Francesca and Mommy at OMSI

Two of us are thermal, one of us is regular.

A cold day, a holiday, a tire swing

The kids were really quite excellent and paid attention like big kids.