It's been cold and rainy here for the past couple of weeks. One particularly cold morning Annette got all bundled up in her winter coat and mittens! She thought the mittens were fun at first until she realized that they prevented her from sucking her fingers :-)

Annette gets a homework assignment from school every month to decorate a picture - for January it was a snowperson. Annette was very good with the finger paints at first...

but the final result turned out to be a bit messy :-)

She made up for it by helping around the kitchen. She loves putting on the oven mitts, even though they take up her entire arm!

Uncle Nils, Aunt Allison and the cousins came over to play one weekend. Annette and Fritz liked checking out baby Isabel :-)