Three Musketeers: Zachary, Wyatt, & Yannick: Feb 6: Snowflake Festival

The Christian Heritage Academy (a private Christian school about 25 min away) gave out flyers for their annual Snowflake Festival. We got a flyer from Zach's cubbies class. We were not going to miss this - face painting, cookie decoration, storytime, crafts, etc - all for FREE (our favorite admission!). We piled into the car and headed out there. Aptly, it began snowing, and snowing and snowing. We made it there safely and parked our little Honda Fit in among the sea of minivans. We felt like the tiny calf among the herd of elephants. Zach asked "do ALL of these people have 3 kids??" (I had told him that we don't have a minivan b/c you need to have 3 kids to have a minivan, and he is ready for us to get another kid!). It was a fun outing! First, we stopped off at the Kindermusik class for a short interlude. Before the class started, the teachers dumped out a box of instruments. Both Zachary and Wyatt clamored for the drums.

If the class had been just drums, our boys would have been totally happy. However, they did more organized things like playing with scarfs, and dancing, and walking to the beat of the music, etc. An enjoyable time.

Next off to winter sports. Cute. My favorite thing was snowball basketball. They had 3 toddler basketball hoops set up and the kids used white shower poofs as snowballs. Some ice fishing w/ poles and magnetic fish. And a big school bus which kept Wyatt busy for awhile.

It was difficult to get a good picture of this b/c he kept moving around, so it's basically here for posterity

Then Art and Zachary went off to work on a snowman for the wall mural. I kept Wyatt in the winter sports room so he would not be a bother to the artists. Here is a series of pictures from the mural time.

Art and Zach working on the Mural

Me saying "smile" and Zach doing his eye squint thing

Me saying "open your eyes" and Zach opening his eyes AND mouth

Finally a good smile. Zach's snowman has the 2 feathers on it

Later, Wyatt thought he should get a chance to help a bit

Next stop: library for winter storytime. The librarian read several books. Wyatt got bored and Art had to take him outside to play in the hallway until storytime was over. But Zach enjoyed it.

Next stop: COOKIE DECORATING Fun fun fun. We ran into the Scaleros, a family from church, whose kids attend CHA. The cookies were huge, and the kids did a good job spreading the white frosting and sprinking the white and blue snowflakes. Art ate all of Wyatt's cookie, but Zach was unwilling to share. Hruumph.

Final stop: face painting. Zach had really been looking forward to this all morning. When time came, he decided he'd rather have a tatoo on his hand. Well, unfortunately, there were no car tatoos, just winter things like snowmen and penguins. Devastated. In swoops one of the volunteers to the rescue. She takes Zach over to a (young!!) facepainting artist who can be commissioned to paint a car on Zach's arm. Happy happy boy! Luckily, it even stayed on mostly, after we went swimming later that evening!