"Snowpocalypse"????

We were under a huge winter storm advisory starting on Monday, 1/31/11.  So, lo and behold, IUPUI closed their campus for Tuesday before 6pm on Monday!!  It was unheard of.  Subsequentally, ITT and Noah's Ark canceled Tuesday - so, before we went to bed Monday, we knew we were all four out on Tuesday.  Jeff, predictably, went stir-crazy.  Despite the "bad roads," he went to Home Depot twice, to the gas station once, and who knows where else.  The rest of us enjoyed 8,432 puzzles, and a lot of other indoor activities.  We basically stayed in our pajamas all day long....although Mel's interpretation of that was wearing her swimsuit.

Before we went to bed on Tuesday, we learned that we were ALL home again on Wednesday!!  This time, we planned ahead.  We invited our friends over for a PJ breakfast for Wednesday morning, and played the morning away.  It was a great way to pass the time, and the girls loved the diversion.  This time, Jeff went to Home Depot once, to the cleaners, and drove to work "just to see how bad the roads really were."  Joey got into the habit of only taking one nap a day during this timeframe, so Tuesday night, he slept 14.5 hours!!  He was in bed by 5:30pm, and slept until about 8am. 

Before bed on Wednesday, we once again learned that both IUPUI and Noah's Ark were canceled for Thursday!!  Things were really getting strange.  Luckily for Jeff, he was back at work.  Luckily for our sanity, we were able to get out of the house.  Having free days with the kids was great - but even the best of people can start climbing the curtains when you don't have anywhere to go!!-Plus the fact the kids are both still at the age to need mommy or daddy there at all times....(need or want, depending on which one).  Thursday the kids and I went to Babies R Us, went out to lunch, and then headed to Lebanon to Suzi's house.  Melanie, after her traditional warming-up period, did not want to leave.  We had a great time seeing faces other than those who live in our house :)

A couple of funnies from the kids....at Suzi's house on Thursday, she had an orange balloon floating around (which Melanie had told me as she was eating her cake "I want this balloon away from me.")  Suzi gently kicked it at Joey while he was crawling around, and he started crying and crawling away.  So, of course, this mean mommy kicked it to him about three more times, each time he got more hysterical about it.  I have no idea what his aversion to balloons is - Suzi and I then sat down and showed him it was not dangerous.  Also at Suzi's, Melanie was playing with a toy cash register.  She then got my wallet out of my purse and was playing with it.  Later, Suzi found a "real" $5 bill in the register, which Mel denied placing there.  Wyatt confirmed he witnessed the transfer.  I think it's funny she made that connection on her own and made her contribution to the cash register.

As of this post - Thursday night - everyone has work and school tomorrow. The roads are fine - as evidenced by the fact we drove to Lebanon and back today. However, IPS is canceled yet again tomorrow, which is completely unheard of.