Another Girly Tag...

I just love this free snowman image from Torico...seriously, you must run over and download it now. Go! I'll wait...

Phew, you made it back! I printed mine off on kraft and then, spying this technique on SCS somewhere (sorry, I didn't save the link!), I dotted him in with gel pens...is this not a brill idea or what? Love the effect. I sponged the edges with some white chalk ink, added it to a base of Eskimo Kisses and then added some matching embellies. And it is already on a prezzie since I wrapped all mine tonight (yes, I am a giant nerd but the kids were at Grandma's so it seemed like a perfect time!).

Here's a little snowy scene to get you winterized. We have had about ten centimeters this week and each morning we wake up to more!

Positive note of the day: Today was quite the day. Ave got her brace on this morning and she lost it. OMIGOD. She did not want to be "manhandled" so it did not help that we had to place her foot "just so" in the brace so she would be working the correct muscles. We left with the provision that we could try again at home and only for twenty minutes at a time if she would tolerate it. After her lunch, we put it back on. She freaked out and had a temper tantrum for twenty minutes. We then took it off, let her have a bottle and she fell asleep.

After about a 45 minute nap, she was renewed. We put the brace on again while I distracted her by dancing to Britney Spears (the girl is a fan of her Top 40). She kept it on and we took her over to the grandparents. Brad and I then went out for our regular Thursday dinner out. We did get a call from Grandma saying that she took off the lower strap and she didn't feel comfortable trying to get it back on her. We didn't mind since by that time she had it on for two hours and there were no tears. Phew! I thought she was gonna take an age to transition to it (but of course, let's wait till morning to see how it pans out!).