Unbalanced Beam

Today we bring back an old blog favorite...falling children! Well, almost. Let us explain.

When you're stuck inside for long periods of time, you come up with creative ways to entertain yourselves. We decided to play balance beam (yes, we know it's a summer sport), making the balance beam progressively higher and higher...



Yes. Henry did end up on the floor, but he recovered quickly. If Alvin had been filming, you would have seen the whole fall, but Tammy has those darn maternal instincts. Enjoy the Winter Olympics!

Defense Against the Bad Guys in the Snow

This post is for those of you out there concerned about our welfare, and for those of us trapped inside a house all day with little else to do. First, let me say that shoveling 2 feet of snow off of a driveway, sidewalk, road, and car is harder than it looks in these pictures. Thus, on day 1 of shoveling I recruited a 9 month pregnant wife to help, and she did (Yes, she's amazing!). On the second day of shoveling (after a day of rest), I recruited Bruce Springsteen and shared him with the neighborhood. Miriam gave me an award for my hard work.

As you can see, two feet of snow shovel leads to four foot embankments, which leads to your children playing on top of the lamppost.

And when sliding down from the the top of the lamppost gets boring, then you have to recruit Dad to help you build...

Note that construction of the snow fort was often delayed by ever escalating attacks from bad guys, but while the construction in a war zone is hazardous, I must say that I was fed well (a steady diet of snow rolls, snow soup, and snow ice cream).

Apparently, someone doesn't think this record setting snow is enough because forecasts have predicted 10-20 inches (and lots of wind) for Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. In related news, Tammy has felt some tightening in her stomach today, though she swears its not contractions...yet.

Blizzard of 2010

You may recall that 3 days before Henry was born we had a fire in our townhouse. Well now, as we're counting down the days to the birth of baby Eliza, we're in the middle of what may turn out to be the biggest blizzard in DC history. We've gotten 30 inches of snow already, and it's still coming!

We're safely and warmly packed in, and as long as we have power and the internet, we'll be content to spend some extra time together as a family.