today we lost a walrus

We've had a little bit of snow, enough to make a two foot snowman and to spend a day outside making a snow fort (by asking half the neighbours if we can take the snow from their paths!)

Last night I spent some time reading through my most favourite blogs and got the inspired idea from Stephanie to bring some snow in the house.

Crazy sounding...but actually a huge hit. They played with this for about two hours.

I found out that Eb in particular knows a lot about Russia, thanks to a Disney book and an atlas poster on their bedroom wall. We've also discovered an excellent nature series called Wild Russia on National Geographic channel.

I bring you...the wild. In our kitchen.
There was much discussion over whether Mammoths should be allowed in the modern Arctic, and then a whole load of debate about what animals you actually do find in the Arctic, rather than the Antarctic. We Googled and found this.

When it came to clearing up, there was a little bit of a disaster as we've managed to misplace a walrus, which meant I spent an hour scouring the back garden looking for a little plastic walrus that was actually in Mb's pocket.

Now we're about to embark on creating a Gingerbread house, whilst pretending to be bears...this should be interesting.