First Snow

They "threatened" snow and snow it did. I don't know why they say "we'll be lucky" if the storm passes us. I say, we're lucky we got all this white stuff! I mean really, who doesn't like snow?! Who doesn't want an excuse to stay inside in their PJ's all day?! Who?! We got around 4" or 5" and it's beautiful.

We had a great time in the snow too. We, meaning Mommy & Daddy. Nathan wasn't so thrilled with keeping his mittens and hat on. Those little hands hitting the fresh cold snow was so cute but so not fun for Nathan. I told him so - but he didn't listen. Needless to say, our first trip outside lasted about a quarter of the time it took us to get outside to begin with. But our second visit outside went much better. We happen to live on a very busy street - when it snows. We have a great hill and lots of fun people who come out to enjoy it. The kids are back out there right now playing on the new coat that came last night. It's a great street we hope we won't be living too far from.

As for news with the house, there isn't much to tell. Ours is completely staged and ready for viewing (except this weekend since Raleigh shuts down with weather of course) and we have put an offer in on the potential new one. And now we wait. We wait for phone calls to kick us out of ours when people want to come see it. And we wait for news from our Realtor on the other one. More to come when things start happening.

In Nathan News, I did not forget to take his 10 month picture, I just haven't had a lot of time to post. He is sporting his crazy hair as usual. Yesterday we spent time with him on his feet. You stand him up and let go and he can pretty much stand on his own for a while. It's adorable. He's been starting to take steps and we agreed that yesterday will officially count for his first day of stepping on his own. He uses his push toy that he got from Nonni to stand/ hang on to and walk! We have it on video and will share soon. It's so cool to see him so mobile on his own. He continues to babble and point and play hide and seek. He's so much fun to be around. This weekend has been a pleasure to be house-bound to enjoy it all without interruption.

This coming week will be busy once again. Between work, keeping things clean and a little trip to NY, I will be busy. Yes, Nathan and I are taking a long weekend trip to NY. Hopefully he will do as well on the plane this time as he did when he was 11 weeks old. He does get restless at times but usually he likes to take it all in and observe. He went to church with Gigi and Grandpa Ed last weekend and didn't make a peep, so we'll see how he does on a plane. Since he likes to look at new faces, hopefully the faces around us won't mind being stared at for an hour.

One more thing, congrats to Geraldine & Kieran and the birth of their son Liam! (Irish - can you tell?) I can't wait to meet the new little one - this trip to NY truly came at the perfect time!