Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Snowmaggedon

Well, the snow started falling Friday around 10 in the morning and by the time it stopped on Saturday we had 24 inches in our front yard. I was trying to round on 11 children, mostly babies, in 2 different hospitals that Friday. The office closed at noon and I finally made it home through the slushy roads around 3 PM. David's mom made it in ok Friday morning just as the snow was starting, but his dad (who was supposed to get in Saturday just as the snow was ending) got stuck in Chicago for 24 hours. He was able to join us on Sunday for a nice but too short visit.
We pulled out Megan's snow suit and sent her out to play on the patio with daddy on Saturday. She lasted about 10 minutes. Later that day when many of the neighbors were out shoveling, she ran around out in the street with one of her friends. Megan got stuck when she followed Anna into the deep stuff and had to be rescued. Wish we had a picture of that but it would have been too cruel to leave her there screaming while I ran for the camera.

All bundled up ready to go out for the first time. David dug a hole for her almost down to the patio bricks.


Megan had more luck crawling than walking through the snow.

Here's David at the begining of the digging out. It tooks us six hours to shovel our little bit of sidewalk and dig out the cars. Luckily our street was plowed by the home owners association. Some neighborhoods in the area still haven't been plowed, and we're expecting another 10-20 inches of snow. Can we say SNOWVERKILL. By the end of the day David wasn't smiling any more.


At least the view from my bedroom window was pretty.
Sunday Megan made it out to play again. She did go sledding with some of the other kids and loved it. Again- me without my camera. Will have to get the photos from the neighbor.
There was so much snow we had to use the shovel to clear the cars.

Yeah Halabuhji finally made it.
Megan started a new game. Haircut. Luckily her red plastic scissors don't cut through hair.
Halmuhni played with Evan while Halabuhji got in on the "haircut" action.


Another new game started when Megan jumped on Halabuhji while he was dozing off on the couch. He kept pretending to fall asleep, but instead of jumping on him, he convinced Megan to wake him up with a kiss. We love you Sleeping Beauty.

Puzzle fun.
Group photo.
Megan and mommy played "sandwich." Here's Megarrito. Daddy didn't approve when Evan became one of the layers in our couch cushion, blanket, Megan sandwiches, so Evan just had to watch from the Bumbo seat.


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