Cold, frosty days

Hi! Hope that this finds you well and not too wet! We are currently enjoying some brilliant winter sunshine but it is cold! It is only about 26 degrees Fahrenheit when i get up in the morning outside and in places the frost doesn't go all day! However, it has meant that we have enjoyed seeing the sun!

Poor Silas is not well today. He was a bit off colour yesterday but today he looks poorly and was sick this evening. He has a cold and a cough too so I hope that the rest of us escape it! The girls have a bit of a cough and a cold but are fine in themselves. Silas has not eaten much and has been sleepy and clingy today. I did manage to sit him in front of Thomas the Tank Engine for a bit today but he still wanted to be picked up when I was cooking tea. He actually enjoyed Thomas though and we had lots of "woo woo's" whilst he was watching it!

Silas and I finally met up with Ulrike and Felix today and had a long walk around the Lake Sammamish State Park in Issaquah this morning. It is a beautiful walk but unfortunately it is very muddy so today was a good day as it was all frozen! It was lovely to see Ulrike again and to have a long chat. We will also see them and Fritzi tomorrow depending on how Silas is.

This afternoon we were due to see another friend but we didn't in the end; both her son and Silas were not too well and we thought we wouldn't share bugs! That meant that we had an unexpectedly free afternoon, which was nice. The girls enjoyed playing and we finished off the big pictures of Wendy and Tinkerbell. We have to decide where they are going to be hung now. The girls want to make a Thomas one for Silas next! I will see how long I can put them off. The pictures look great though and I was particularly impressed with Esther's picture of Wendy as she has done a great job.

We had a day off school on Monday as it was Martin Luther King Day; we went to teh Children's museum with Marie and her children which was good fun. All the children including Silas had a great time and Silas even did some painting on some paper as well as himself, me, the easel, the floor ...! We had a slight delay to our morning as we were waiting for a parcel to be delivered from the British Embassy. I knew it would be Naomi's passport but assumed that there must be something wrong with it as I couldn't believe that they could have processed it in 2 days. I was stunned to discover that it was completed. The Embassy in Washington DC only received it on Monday and UPS had originally tried to deliver it on Friday morning. They must have done it the day it arrived!

We came back from the Children's museum in the afternoon and then later on went to Ballet to make up for the one the girls missed last week. The girls also had ballet yesterday too, which was their last class before the show week next week.

Well, that is about all our news here. Hope that you are all well and I will write on Sunday.