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Here’s the story of our yesterday…

Morgan and I took Adrian’s parents to the airport. They’ve been with us since we got back from California and I finally took a picture of all of them. I excused myself due to lack of shower. We had a nice and pretty relaxed week. They went to visit Adrian’s grandma in Idaho one day, and on Saturday we went to Sam’s Club and then dinner at Cheesecake Factory. But other than that, I didn’t leave the house all week (which is exactly what I wanted… I was exhausted after the weekend in CA!) and we mostly hung out and they cooked and cleaned for us. This is good because I still don’t feel any inspiration to cook anything.

Anyway, Morgan slept on the way to the airport and part of the way back, thank goodness. Poor kid really doesn’t like the car. Sometimes it’ll lull her to sleep, but if she wakes up she’s very unhappy. Well, the car or the car seat I don’t know, but anyway. So we only had a few minutes of sadness when I was already back close to home. I feel like she’s six weeks now and I feel up for going out more now, generally, but it’s just not worth it when she gets so upset. Plus it’s hard to feed her when we’re out, etc. So it’s simpler to just stay home it seems.

When we got back home, the snow really kicked up. It was good that we got home when we did.

Sleepy girl! I love it. I left her snuggled on the couch and told Toby to watch her so I could run outside to take some pictures…

That’s our driveway and street. I thought this was supposed to be March, and I thought we lived somewhere it doesn’t snow! HMM. Actually, I like snow because it’s so pretty, but winter does sort of start weighing on you around this time. The time change has infinitely improved my feelings about it all, though. That extra hour of light at the end of the day is really really refreshing.

I love how branches look with snow on them. These have evidence of spring’s impending approach, though, because you can see the buds. Come on, spring!

Later the sun came out and the snow started melting. I put Morgan in the wrap so we could go take more pictures outside, but then got distracted by her cuteness with the hat on. She, in turn, was adorably distracted by staring out the window at the light and snow.

She was a little less sure about being out in all that coldness, though. Hehe. She was still patient and let me take lots of pictures.

Ice and water droplet! I was exploring playing with my camera, and was pleased with myself.

This one is probably my favorite because of the contrast with the blue sky. There was just a little patch of it, so I had to line up the shot just right.

I was feeling all snazzy and pleased with myself for taking such fun pictures, so I came inside to upload them and was super excited to show Adrian. I brought myself back down by spilling nail polish remover, which I was using to clean the keyboard, over the top of the desk, which of course took off the top layer of seal and paint underneath. Yeah, I felt great, and it was hard to move these giant pieces to make sure I dried it all while Morgan was asleep in the wrap on my chest. But I did it, at least, though it was much too late to save much on the desk.  So instead of getting to show off my pictures, I got to show Adrian all the damage I’d done to our lovely new desk when he got home.

Alas. I AM still pleased with the pictures.

These pictures are really old now, but I had uploaded them to the ftp site so I might as well go ahead and post them. This was from the first day of our rather large snowfall. It was still new and exciting at that point. After a week of being intermittently stuck at home it had lost its charm. Hehe.

Incidentally, who knows what’s up with the crazy weather here. The snow has now all melted, which the rain helped to accomplish in the end, but now we’re getting so much rain that some areas are flooding. If anyone saw that in the news (it was the main story on cnn.com last night), don’t be alarmed for us. We’re not in that area that’s been evacuated. Still pretty wild, though.

We took this last week, day after Christmas. First, the obvious: the baby’s getting bigger, which is making me bigger, too. It’s 36 weeks now, so the way I figure it could be any time in the next 6 weeks or so. It’s a big waiting game. Life is good, she wiggles around and appears to be doing perfectly, my hips still hurt when I sleep but other than that feel great–just tired. At my appointment on Monday she’s still head down, which she has been for months (thank you, thank you baby!), and apparently she’s already nice and deep in my pelvis so that takes some worry off. 

One more thing: this is the 200th post on our blog. Nifty. I wanted to come up with something really fun to do, but we have stuff that needs to be posted. A big belly is a nice 200th post shot, I think. It definitely forebodes big changes!

Tonight around 8 we heard a large truck drive down the street. Today IS trash day, so I thought perhaps it was the yard waste/compost truck or something random. (Yes, they have things like a special pickup for that up here. Yes, we live in Seattle.) Seemed a little odd, seeing as it was so late at night.

As it drove back down the street, I looked out the window and saw that it was, in fact, a snow plow. It is evidence of the lack of snow-related infrastructure in place that our street got plowed ten days after the heavy snow started. In the meantime, we’ve spent days stuck in the house because there was snow up to our bumpers and we figured it wasn’t bright to drive in that. And then starting about three days ago the temperature went above freezing and the blessed rain came back (who’d have thought we’d say that, eh?) and started to turn all that snow into slush, which made it possible to drive carefully.

It was just a “huh” moment.

I still do have pictures of us enjoying the aforementioned snow, and of course we have had some holiday fun I could post about. So don’t fret, dear readership. I’ll get to posting eventually. Lots to do, you know. I’ve been working on baby laundry and figuring out where to put all that.

Baby laundry? Does that mean there actually might be a baby coming in the next month-ish? Yikes.

I had a conversation with my good friend Navid today. It went something like this:

Navid: Do you have snow?
Adrian: Are you asking if it is currently snowing? I am unsure what you are asking.
Navid: Is there snow outside?
Adrian: Ah. Let me go take a picture for you.

Navid: HAHAHAHA!
Adrian:

So yes, not only was it currently snowing, but I’ll also be able to drive my car again in April…hopefully.