Ice Day

Today was Ice Day at Owen's preschool. The families froze buckets of ice that contained food coloring, glitter, and special surprises and brought them to school for the kids to build ice castles with.

The kids had a blast playing with the ice. (And yes, it really is this cold right now in Phoenix: 45 degrees during the day and 27 degrees at night. My vegetable garden, which lived through 120 degrees, has officially died. Very sad.)

The days prior to Ice Day, the kids were shown a block of ice that contained a toy in it and were asked to guess how they could best get the toy out of the ice. Most kids guessed they should melt it and provided different ways to melt the ice such as sun, fire, stove. Owen very proudly raised his hand and declared, "we can smash it!" You have to hand it to him, he can see the shortest distance between problem and solution.

My new favorite portrait of our family, drawn by Owen in school yesterday.