What season is it?

Ah ... February in Calgary ... one day winter, the next day spring. 

After a week of warm days, the great mounds of snow are finally melting a bit and there's lots of moisture in the air.  With all that moisture hanging around, mornings offer lots of eye-candy!  The frost on the trees and bushes is so beautiful.  It melts off over the course of the day, only to return the next morning. 

We'll be hovering around 0 C (32 F) for the next week -- below at night, above during the day -- so I can look forward to another week of frosty mornings. 

twinkle twinkle little star

... that would be the song I can't get out of my head after having the little boys here most of last week!  That song and the "Clean up. Clean up. It is time to clean up" song.  Linda and the boys went home last Thursday. But they were back yesterday.  The boys spent the day with me while John & Linda had a day to themselves. 

We played with cars on our street poster ...  and Jacob hung out with his buddy Fargo ...

We made cookies.  Anthony rolled the dough, cut the shapes, painted the tops and added sprinkles.  Jacob "supervised".

The cookie cutters needed to be washed, and stripping down seemed the best way to stay dry.

After lunch, Jacob napped while Anthony and I created with Play Doh.

We are so blessed to live close and be able to spend so much time with our grandchildren.  (And as an added bonus, Jacob can now say "Oma"!)