why all time sun come out and it still cold?

Spring came with a vengeance last week, 18 inches of snow over a few days just after some beautiful sunshiny spring like days. As I picked Zhong-Lin up from school, he asked, "Why all time sun come out and it still cold?" Well.....it's complicated! a globe, the sun, the earth's position.



Sledding is the all time favorite activity, evidenced in this video.
sledding

and we can't forget snow angels, but yes, they weary of it, being tricked by the sun to think warmer weather is here.


Emma had the brilliant idea of eating dinner on the mini trampoline on the snowy back porch and they relished that!


So, we wait....for "spring" to come.

snow, beautiful snow

The kids have loved the snow (although there has been precious little this year as compared to last year). Amazingly this year it snowed on my birthday, September 29, which set up the expectation that it snows on birthdays and sure enough, come October 16-Hunter's birthday-it snowed again, just like they thought it would. As for our progress on food, they will eat pretty much anything. When they were sick, I just needed Hunter to get some nourishment, so I did a broth with rice and all three marveled that that was what they ate in Taiwan when they were sick! So, easy healthy lunch...rice, broth and add whatever veggies on hand: carrots, celery, cabbage, corn, peas etc. They have each grown about 2 inches and eat like horses all day.