snow bound

  We had a great time at the Nease Family Circus Vacation at Lake Tahoe, NV.  Evi is a professional skier...well almost.  She really enjoyed it and was once again brave enough to try jumps.  She also asked me to get off the bunny slopes, which is where I prefer to be if I have to ski.  As soon as we got off the lift and I saw the way down, I was petrified!  I did the one run and told Evi and Scott they were on their own.  I'd like to claim that most of my fears are based on the fact that I'm the bread winner at the moment and we'd be a little screwed if I got hurt!  Yea, that's the ticket! :-)

Eli took lessons with Mila one afternoon, which was totally hilarious! They were like marshmallow puffs and would fall over with the slightest provocation.  Let's just say that they didn't learn much, but we sure enjoyed the show!  Eli did ski with Scott on the bunny slopes a few times and totally loved it.  He would giggle the whole way down but never quite got it enough to be let loose completely.  Next time I know he'll be right behind Evi and not missing a beat.
Now the sledding, that's where the fun was at!  The kids LOVED it. And the adults enjoyed themselves maybe just a little bit too much too!
Eli has learned so much at school already.  First off, with a class full of boys, he is making up for all his girly tendencies from always being around girls.  (except the painting of the nails, if Evi's getting her nails painted, he's in line and won't take no for an answer...I at least use blue and green for his nails) He's learning to play fight, shoot guns and of course all potty talk is hilarious and he tries to say the word poop as many times in one day as he can.  Thanks boys.
He has also learned his alphabet (or his version of it), to count to 10 and the pledge of allegiance. The pledge is highly entertaining and so cute.  The last line goes like this " and justin for all". HAHAHA!!
He has learned to write his name.  At first every time he wrote it, he would shake his hand the whole time he was writing it and we couldn't understand why.  UNTIL we realized Ms. Flo (who is a lovely OLDER white haired assistant in his class) was helping him and you know how old people sometimes shake when they write...;-)





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