Month: April 2022

Do I look different?

See anything missing?

That’s right. Another tooth gone.

I did a watercolor this week. Rainbow lion.

I also did some skiing.

Including skiing the Cirque BOWL.

It was hard (it was a double black diamond – Mt Bachelor double black – so take that with a grain of salt) but fun.

I also practiced some lacrosse…with a butterfly net and hacky sack. Why not?

The Bigs normally do something special for Earth Day. This year nothing. I don’t know what their problem is lately, but I don’t have the time or the patience for their issues, especially on such an important day, so I took over. I made a special dessert. I melted chocolate chips, topped it with peanut butter, chopped apples, and cinnamon.

Delicious!

I also organized an Earth Day activity. We made a planter man.

Mt Bachelor got 46 inches of snow in the last 7 days. We had an awesome powder day on Saturday.

Will you stop taking pictures and start skiing Mom?

Just leave her Dad…

I got my own water bottle holder for cross country skiing for Easter. Maybe because I always drink The Bigs’ water on them?

We had a snowy egg hunt.

But I found them all pretty fast.

I tried my first ever Peep. Yum!

Papa is here! We’ve been having lots of fun all week doing things The Bigs don’t do. We we drove bumper cars, saw a MOVIE, ate at restaurants, went to the trampoline, did some climbing,

went to the laundromat (The Bigs’ washing machine broke and no one will come fix it),

and did some good hikes.

I started a bouldering class this week,

worked on my cursive,

practiced catching baseballs,

and did some skiing.

The Sunday snow report for Mt Bachelor included: ‘whipping winds whirling about the mountain this morning gusting 60-100 mph at mid-mountain. These winds are coming from the west so various lifts at West Village and some at Sunrise will start the day on hold’. So, we decided maybe it wasn’t a great day for the resort and instead, it was time to knock another thing off my goal list. A backcountry ski to Todd Lake.

I am a what you call and backcountry adventurer.

This week I went to my first ever soccer practice. We did some dribbling.

I also worked on my basketball dribbling. I find wearing rainboots improves my technique.

There is still plenty of skiing to be had…

and I decided it was time for another challenge. The park…

What? It’s not like I was going to knock out my front tooth. It fell out already!

This week we had spaghetti squash with sauteed chard and toasted walnuts.

Every week, we have Ethiopian stew. It calls for berbere spice. Mom mixed up a new batch. It calls for 12 different spices.