There was a surprise guest at the science fair, Nutzy the squirrel. He’s the beloved mascot of our new local AA baseball team, The Flying Squirrels.

Emma’s project was about illustrating the amount of fat in the favorite foods of her classmates. She made up a survey form from which collected data, graphed it all out, and then used tofu to visualize show how much fat was in a serving of each as compared to the recommended daily allowance for kids. I think she had some fun doing it and I know we all had a good time seeing her project on display alongside all of the other kids’.

It looks like Kindergarten is finally starting to stick.

Emma and Maggie had some fun playing “Mt .Everest” on a giant pile of snow left from our street getting plowed. The also spent some time slogging through the knee-high-to-them snow on our back porch.

Stella took time to hydrate with a snowy snack. She’s a smarty.

We took the kids and some sleds out to Cheswick Park to see if we could get a good sliding spot. We had some laughs, for sure, but mostly we guaranteed that we would spend the rest of the day inside.

Here’s Emma at the turn of her 100yd backstroke from this morning’s meet (cool capture via Quadcamera). This was her first wintertime swim team season and she made a lot of progress from October until now. There is still room to improve but she’s a strong, confident swimmer and we think she’s set up for some really fast swimming over the summer and next winter. It really helps that she has a couple of her close friends on the team. They make it a lot easier to commit the time.

She’s pretty great. This photo also doubled as my Whiskerino photo and there were plenty of well-wishes from the guys.

Emma and I caught a fun brunch-for-two at Can Can to celebrate the last day of Winter Break. Her mom and and her sister didn’t want to brave the cold so they missed out on the wonderful beignets.

Nothing really happened in 2009. That’s why there aren’t any pictures of the girls from the whole year.

Here’s to seeing more of them in 2010.

She’s make a brief appearance at the 1:06 mark on this segment on Walk to School Day.