Jared's First Snow

Today we woke up to rain/sleet that quickly changed to snow. We didn't get quite as much snow as we did on Christmas Eve, but it was still plenty. Chris' school got cancelled today, but Noelle's MDO did not. So, Chris and I had a day at home with just Jared.


On the news this morning there was an interview with a DPS Trooper who basically said the road conditions were pretty bad. It would be OK to go out if you had to go to the hospital or something, but advised not to go to Wal-Mart or anything "unnecessary." So what did Chris and I do?? We decided to ignore that advice and went to Lowe's and had lunch at Olive Garden. (Don't worry, Chris had driven in the snow earlier that day and the conditions weren't that bad.)

Once Noelle came home we went outside for a few minutes to play in the snow. Jared slept through the whole thing. :-)







This bear outfit is super cute & was perfect for taking him outside today. Thanks, Ashten!


Just for fun, here's a picture of Noelle's first snow when she was about 4 months old.

Tummy Time & 1st Super Bowl Pics

Pranking the Elderly - Seriously?

Noelle: "Look! There's snow at Ms. Betty's house!!"

Chris: "Um, no. That's toilet paper."

Noelle: "That's gross! What were they thinking?"


This is disturbing on a couple of levels:

1. Who in the world would wrap the house of an 80-something-year-old lady who lives by herself?
2. My poor 3-year-old daughter thought it was used toilet paper.
   

February 4, 2010

Today is the first day that Noelle got out of her bed at night. It's crazy weird that she's over 3 1/2 years old and she has just always stayed in her bed and called for us to come get her. I know some of you have kids who have been climbing out of their cribs since they were tiny. Anyway, the reason I write this is because she and I had a funny little conversation when she came out into the living room.

It was about 10:30, and I was rocking (a screaming) Jared. I hear a weird noise, like a dog barking or something. As I'm reaching for the remote to turn down the TV, Noelle's door opens up. I panic. Seriously, she has never gotten out of her bed before. About 5% of me thought there was going to be a burglar come out of her room. Actually, maybe more than that. Luckily, it was just Noelle. I tell her to come over to the chair I'm in and try to figure out what the deal is. (She may have even been sleep walking.) I ask her if she's had a bad dream. She says yes. I ask her what it was about.

She says, "Mommy. My bad dream was that I didn't get enough sleep."

Here's the story

In case you're curious about the recipe for the meal made in the previous post. Here it is:

Ingredients
2 cups of pasta
Not enough water

Boil water while you are feeding your newborn. In the middle of the feeding, while you are pausing to burp the baby, add noodles. Set a timer for 10 minutes so you don't forget about the noodles on the stove. Continue feeding. Ignore the sound of water boiling over the pan.

When the timer goes off, decide to change your baby's diaper first. Smell something burning. Hmmm. Change diaper faster. Put the baby in the bouncer. Quickly enter into your kitchen and see smoke. Remove pan from burner and set it outside. Proceed inside and fan the smoke detector. Realize that there's too much smoke. Spend 3-5 minutes trying to remove the battery while trying to keep the horrible beeping noise from deafening your baby and toddler.

Try to figure out another meal for your toddler while she refuses to step foot in the kitchen and is crying because of the burned meal.

Air out your house for 2 days.

Why it's important to bring meals to families with newborns

Finally!

After three and a half years, I finally convinced Sarah to let me post these pictures. They were taken the day Noelle turned 1-month old.