Happy Valentine's Day!

We've finally dug ourselves out of the snow! Things are slowly returning back to normal. Our street was plowed early this morning and trash pick up is supposed to resume on Tuesday - yeah!

Today is also my Gramma's birthday - Happy Birthday Gramma! If you'd like to see Eli sing happy birthday to her click here. You'll notice that he's not wearing a shirt in protest of the snow.

We're Getting Sick of This

Yes it's snowing again. No, I wouldn't expect any cute pictures of us sledding or throwing giant snowballs or other fun wintertime activities. The novelty of being essentially stuck in our house has worn off now that we're moving in on the sixth straight day and there is now three feet of snow and ice piled up outside. There's only so many times you can watch Madagascar 2 and youtube videos and make animals out of Play Doh before you start to lose it and its safe to say all three of us hit that point sometime in the last day or two.

Family Sledding Adventure

Jamie and Helena brought over inflatable tubes to use for sledding at the local park. At first Eli was only up for some team sledding action.



Eventually we were able to convince him to try out some solo sledding with an inflatable duck pool toy. Eli actually enjoyed this way more than you would guess based on the look on his face. He threw a bit of a fit when it was time to go.



When the ladies and small children went home to warm up, Jamie and I checked out the scene at our other local sledding hill.

The snow has finally stopped falling, and we've thankfully managed to avoid any power failures or other negative aspects of Snowmagedden, aka Snowpocolypse II, aka SnOMG. A thirty foot tree a couple of doors down did fall down into the street and onto a parked car, but luckily no one was hurt. We're all looking forward to another day of winter fun tomorrow.

Snowmagedden

Friday afternoon.

Saturday at dawn.

Saturday afternoon.

Snowmergency

As we prepare for this weekend's Snowmergency, I thought I would share a picture from last weekend's snow.
I promise to post photos of Eli romping in mountains of snow - as soon as we actually have some snow. Like true Washingtonians we headed off to the store to buy groceries in preparation. Not surprisingly, there were exactly 5 loaves of bread left at the Target in Alexandria at 9:30am. They did however have a ton of playdough which was our main reason for going to Target. If we're going to be stuck in the house all weekend, I thought we needed some new entertainment and playdough is perfect.

Silly Mommy, I Eli

We've started playing a game where I ask Eli if he's my little sugar booger or my little sweet potato pie or my little apple dumpling or my little...you get the picture. After a while of this Eli will finally say "Mommy you silly, I Eli (which sounds like E I)" and then he laughs and laughs. Eli's not a big fan of letting me video him right now so you'll just have to take my word for it.

The Zoo!!

The unusually cold DC winter finally took a brief hiatus long enough for us to visit Eli's favorite spot...THE ZOO! We spent most of our time saying hello to our friend Tulip the Cow.
We discovered a few new things this trip - the dinosaur head and an unexplainable fear of the Gorilla House. Normally the gorillas are more popular than Tulip but this time he started to cry as we approached. I have no idea why and he wasn't able to tell me so I guess we'll just wait and see what happens on our next trip.