Just a couple pics...

 Nope, I haven't gotten tired of the deer yet! :) Here is one standing outside Sophia's window.

 I'll follow this up with an "Ode to Sophia" post, but here are 2 pics of her latest wonderfulness: she is now fully capable of chopping fruits and vegetables to help me in the kitchen! She has her own cutting board and chopper (from the "Small Hands" catalogue, which I LOVE)... when I make an apple crisp Sophia does ALL the chopping and I just make the topping! She also chops things like mushrooms, green peppers, etc. for pasta/pizza/stir fry etc. and chops bananas or cheese for her own snacks, etc. It's awesome.

 Margie watching the deer come through the back pasture at sunset (headed towards the pile of rejected hay... there is one deer that also beds every night in the front corral!).

 On our "snow day" on Monday we all enjoyed the gift of an unexpected family day! We mostly hung around indoors and worked on house projects... and Sophia completed all of her Valentines for her school party! She decorated each card, wrote "Sophia W" very carefully, put the card and a candy in an envelope, and sealed each envelope with a heart sticker and a piece of tape and then decorated her envelopes. We made the first one together, and then she made 23 of them herself. VERY project-oriented kid! :)

Sunrise this morning. :) We had a really lovely, dramatic fog in the prairie. It was one of those mornings that is so quiet and still... I didn't hear a single sound except for my own boots in the snow.

And, YES, I realize that I don't have a single pic of Kaia on here! Not good! I guess I've been taking her pics on my phone, and I haven't yet figured out how to get those pics onto my blog. :( I'll get some on here SOON! Basically she's big and fat and happy :)