The past three weeks

So I've gotten bad with updating the blog.  So this is a summary of three weeks.

January 27th - February 2nd

• Upon seeing me dressed in my apron and cap:

Bennett: Are you Victoria?
Me: Do I look like Victoria?
Bennett: Yes.  Are you Ryan?
Me: Do I look like Ryan?
Bennett: Yes.

          I guess this means my costume is a success!

• The next day, after I had put my apron on, he told me I needed my cap so that my hair wouldn't get dirty.

•  Wore a play skirt as an apron.  Said he needed it so that his clothes wouldn't get dirty.

Playing with the Lego "mall"

Bennett made a card/craft project for Nana's birthday

• Saturday Bennett had skating and then he went to Aunt Gentry and Uncle Andrew's house for a bit so that I could do some sewing and get my hair cut.  We then went to visit Daddy who was working all day/evening (tech).  Bennett fell asleep at 6:45 in the car on our way home.

• On Sunday we had our weekly trip to OSV.  Bennett helped the farmers split logs for fence posts.  In the tin shop he had lots of fun playing with the various sizes of measures.  We also learned the names of two more interpreters.

• It got slightly overcooked, but the weekly pie was apple.

February 3rd - 9th

• On Monday he started falling asleep during dinner due to lack of nap

• On Wednesday we had a snow day.  Mummy tried to do some work from home but Bennett watched a bunch of TV and we also went outside and shoveled the driveway a couple of times.

• On Thursday Nana came over for dinner and then played Legos with Bennett.

• On Saturday we went to Sturbridge where they were celebrating Valentine's Day.  Victoria was portraying Esther Howland, the woman who popularized Valentine's in the U.S.  She was in a different building than she normally is and this building also has some dress up clothes.  So Bennett dressed up as Dave.  :)  The sleeves on his shirt were a bit long, but as Victoria mentioned, she doesn't recall ever having seen Dave with his sleeves rolled down.

Bennett made this valentine and later gave it to Victoria. 
She then gave him one in return.

• In the tin shop Bennett again had fun playing with all of the measures.  As we were leaving the village we ran into Phil (the tinner) and he gave us a tour of the tin production shop, musket storage, etc.

• At Victoria's recommendation, the weekly pie was a chicken pie.  Pretty simple- just chicken and gravy in a crust.

• On Sunday we went to the local sledding hill.  We went up pretty high and had a blast, but other than in this one photo we had Bennett walk up the hill, and after having done that a few times he was tired out.  (But pulling him up was too much work for us.)

• Other Sunday afternoon activities included working on writing his name on his Valentine's for school, reading books, and playing out various things from Sturbridge.  In this case, he was chopping wood and putting it in the woodbox, and also fixing a gate because Henry broke it.

February 10th - 16th

Opening a Valentine's gift from Grandma and Grandpa Tedford

Brrr.... it was cold!

• On Thursday we got another big snowstorm so we left work early.  Of course this was the first day of the week that Bennett actually napped and he didn't like being woken up.  He was very disoriented and didn't understand why he was going home from school.

• Happy Valentine's Day!  He had gifts to open from us and also from Nana.

• Saturday was another trip to OSV.  He had fun playing in the snow.

• While we were in the farmhouse we had this conversation:

Bennett: I want to go back outside
Me: Now, it's cold out.
Bennett: I want to be cold.

• We also stopped at the shoe shop.  I had ordered a pair of shoes to go with my costume but they needed to be finished.  (They are left unfinished so that you can add buckles/laces however you want.)  I'm sure I could have done it myself, but Peter was nice enough to finish them up for me.

• We got more snow on Saturday night, so on Sunday we cleaned up driveway from more snow plus I climbed up on a small roof to clear off more snow/ice from the gutters.

• Grandpa came over for dinner and the weekly pie was a Jefferson Davis Pie.

In other completely unrelated news, I recently was looking through some old pictures- slides that I had scanned years ago- and I came across this one of OSV.  Based on the date of 1978, I would guess that this might have been from my very first visit.  I'm guessing an extended family member also came along since all 4 of us are pictured here.  (Ok, technically I'm not pictured, but at less than a year old I'm either in the stroller or in arms- certainly not taking the picture.)  It's interesting to see how much is the same and what has changed.  There were a few other pictures from that trip, but it's a little hard to tell what some of them are of.