Good cheer!

Daniel, 5 1/2 months old (Dec 16)

PS  I know four minutes is terribly long, but I wasn't sure how to make the movie shorter, and was too lazy to figure out how right then (to be precise, I knew if I tried, I wold procrastinate and never ever get it up). So there :)

Incredibly Exciting Allergy Update, Oh Yeah! (there's your vowel fix for the day)

Anna can now eat this ...

and this!

I don't know if I've been unreasonably paranoid the last two years, or if my caution has helped her get over it faster, but whatever, Jeff suggested that I do a dairy test with her -- hadn't thought to do one before -- and lo and behold, it was fine!  Hallelujah! =D

Ultimate Snow Day!

We got some "snain" on Saturday, and enough to truly call it snow and make a snowman yesterday, but this morning when we woke up it was snowing huge, beautiful puffy flakes.  The kids raced through their chores and went to make a fort with the cousins.  Jeff left for work, and I decided to go on a walk with the kids.  I was bundled and Anna was re-bundled, when I got a call from Jeff ... he was on his way back home!  The roads were horrific, and he didn't have any urgent calls, so he decided it just wasn't worth it.  Hooray!  We waited for him, and then we all went on a walk together (almost all -- I left Daniel with Susan).  It was truly, truly delightful.

Started off with a good snowball fight :)

Can't miss when she's this close!

You can't tell in the picture, but a snowball was headed directly for the camera here ;)

"Who got me?!"

Off we go ...

I told her not to eat it right off the road, but I don't think she listened ...

Whee!!!

Everyone got a turn on the sled ... even me :)

Time to head home for some hot apple cider now :)

Enough.  Can I go wipe my face off now?  

(Kate hates a wet face ... so much so that she dries off her face several times during every shower!)