The Day After the Nor'Easter

On Thursaday the snow finally stopped. It really is beautiful to look at everything completely covered in fresh white snow, well as long as you don't have to go anywhere in a hurry. Andrew had to do a lot of shoveling before he could go to work, as did our whole neighborhood. The snow plow doesn't do a very good job in our area, so it's a good thing Andrew has four-wheel drive. Since David is still sick we just went out for a quick errand across the street, that was scary enough. The plowed snow is stacked so high it creates extra blind spots and since it is the first big snow in a while you have to be extra careful. I made a wrong turn becauseit was hard to recognize a street vs. a driveway. Here are a few more pics of our extra snowy world.

Our cars

You can see how much accumulated on our trash can

My hero, shoveling away

It's a lot of work

Even my car got covered as the snow was blowing sideways

"Crawling"video

Last week, Andrew was having some fun with David, "helping" him crawl:

Baby David at 8 months

David is growing and enjoying life. Last week we went for a well-child visit and he now weighs 19.4 pounds! He is enjoying sitting on the rug and playing with his toys. He attempts to move around by reaching over and letting himself fall towards the desired object. He also last longer on his tummy. Andrew tries to make him crawl, but I'm really not in a hurry for such activity. I still appreciate being able to get things done and he's mostly in the same area.

This week he got sick again. It started with a croupy cough so we paid a visit to his doctor. Now it has progressed to a pretty nasty cold. We had started dong some sleep training to get him to sleep through the night, but that's all on hold again. Some day I will get a full night's sleep :)

He sees the block

He reaches for the block

I got it

Now I must eat it

Nor'easter

Yesterday we experienced our first real snow storm. It snowed for over 24 hours straight, the news called a Nor'easter. From what I understand this means that the storm travels to the north-eastern Atlantic area where it picks up more percipitation and then comes and drops a bunch of snow, sleet, and rain, depending on where you are. As you can see we got lots of snow, almost 2 feet. Darmouth College actually closed down for the first time in 15 years, it was a real snow day for everyone. Andrew went out to shovel some of the snow yesterday so that there will be less to do today.
These pictures were taken yesterday about halfway through the storm, I used our video camera because our regular camera was "snowed in" at Andrew's work.

Andrew's car

Where's the road?

A couple of videos

There have been request for some more video footage of the Baby David. Here he is munching on Cheerios.



Here is try number 2, as you can see David really enjoys eating

Lakers, Lakers, Lakers!

Yesterday we made the trek out to Boston to watch Kobe and the rest of the Lakers beat the Celtics at their home court. It was the most fun we have had in a long time. David was such a star, everyone wanted to say hi to him, even though he was wearing a Lakers outfit. We were not aloud to take in cameras so we took a few pictures before we left. You can see that David is still working through his cold.