Fiedler Family Blog: March 2009

Look out Oshkosh Lanes!

We took the girls to the local bowling alley the other afternoon for a quick game - Sophi's first. She bowled an impressive 64 (with the help of a 6 lb. ball, a ramp to launch it off of, and bumpers - but who's keeping track?).

Poor Lucy had a cold and wasn't quite as excited to be there as her sister. :(

Eat your vegetables . .

Sophi has been pretty excited about helping plan for our family's vegetable garden this year, which has made her dollhouse garden from Grandma and Grandpa Ullmer of particular interest.

Soph has successfully grown carrots, cauliflower, parsnips, and turnips.

AND, has gotten everyone to eat them, without complaining!

We're hoping for similar results in the Fiedler household. :)

No heat . . .

. . . was what we woke up to a few weeks ago when our furnace went out.

So, we bundled up and waited for the repairman to arrive. :) Fun (and cold!) memories!

(For the record, we TRIED to get Sophi to put on a coat and hat. She refused, and so we settled for letting her wrap up in her bathrobe and a blanket.)

winter projects . . .

One of the things we loved about our house when we bought it was the fact that it was really old AND had huge walk in closets in every bedroom - a rare combination. Sophi's room happens to have two - so I'd been planning to turn one of them into a little playhouse, which we now call her "play closet".

Artwork is courtesy of Jason - age 5.

The wooden ironing board belonged to my mom, who played with it in her playhouse when she was little. :) Sophi now prefers to use it to iron the "sprinkles" (aka wrinkles) out of her blanket as a means of stalling before bed.