It's January and It's Snowing!

We woke up to snow this morning. We have been hearing rumors of snow all weekend. We had about 5 minutes of rain mixed with snow on Saturday and then it was sunny yesterday. When we went to bed there had been a light dusting of snow and we thought, well there is our snow they have been forecasting. Boy were we wrong! We have about 3+ inches and it is supposed to snow tonight. If there is snow forecasted, we usually get it. We are in a convergence zone. We will have snow and you can go 5-10 miles down 405 and there will be no snow at all! Seth decided to stay home today, so we have been having some fun playing! We took the kids out to the front yard and played. This is Alistair's first time playing in snow. Though we did let him down when we were snow shoeing, he really didn't play!

Sadie LOVES the snow and just runs and flops in it and rolls and just goes crazy. She was in 7th heaven this morning having all the yards to run around in and roll in untouched snow! (:

Alistair got this nifty snow suit hand-me-down from my mom's coworker. It is lined with fleece and is nice and warm! Other than his hands getting a little cold, he stayed quite toasty for the hour and a half plus we spent outside!

He also got this cool baby tobogan from her co-worker. We keep forgetting we have it, it would have been good to have for snow shoeing! We dragged him around the block, through the park on the corner and then found the icy spots on the road to make him skid around. He thought that was pretty fun! We also made our driveway into a sledding run and pushed him down it a ton of times. Here is a video of him on a pretty good run! (:

A Walking Fool

Alistair's new found skill is still very much a novelty to him. He is walking all over the place. He will just walk back and forth across the room we are in if nothing else. Everyone kept telling us we would be sorry once he started walking but we are 1) relieved that there is nothing wrong with him 2) glad he can do some walking and give our backs a break and 3) love watching him be so proud of himself walking around and carrying stuff! (: I managed to get another video of him walking. This time it is horizontal and you can see how much progress he has made in his walking since the last movie!

So many things to talk about...

Happy 2008! It's a new year and it already has started off with a bang! As most people know by now, Alistair has finally decided to walk; he started walking on New Year's Day (the last post has a video attached to see evidence). We have been busy, busy since New Year's Eve. The Sandholms flew in that morning and spent the week with us! It was so great to see them and was amazing to think it has been 3 months since we last saw them. Having 2 busy babies around the house is sure a lot of work and forget about having any clear floor space. The Alistair and Sully express comes through every 5 minutes or so and knocks over and/or dumps out anything we attempt to clean-up. We kind of gave up after a while and just waited until they went to bed! Sully loved our stairs and was like a bee to honey to them. He loved going up and down repeatedly albeit we had to really watch him because he would either try to go down head first or at some point get his legs caught underneath him and start to go. Alistair would try to race him down the stairs, but I don't think he got that Sully was a novice! Story time and everyone looks excited about it!New Year's Day was the annual Hennessey Ravioli party. We all got there around 10:30 and started up the machines. The guys all stuff the sausage and then the gals jump in after the sausages are done to roll out pasta and make raviolis. Judy made all the kids chef hats and aprons - except Alistair. He got the head chef ensemble - from head to toe! Sully got stripes on his apron since he was a seasoned sous chef.

The guys diligently at work - it is definitely a teamwork thing!The raviolis are coming together nicely!
Sully is having a good time rocking out on Alistair's Rocking Puppy!
Mmmmm - the finished product! Time to chow!

The weekend after New Years was our annual "French" night weekend with the Sandholms and Folgedalens (part of the reason the Sandholms came out). We headed out to Seabrook, which is out by Ocean Shores. It is a new seaside community that has tons of houses to rent that are very nice, state-of-the-art and very reasonable during the off season. We went out Friday and came home Sunday. We had a great time! Our group picture really says something about the evolution of this gathering - we are all dressed up, we have our wine glasses full and are about to eat our crab and shrimp cakes and on the edge of the table are cut-up chicken nuggets and a sippy cup! (:

Alistair is taking notes and learning so that one day he and Sully can cook all the food for us and all we need to do is sit around and be waited on! Ha, Ha!

Ah, empty glasses, empty bottles and very full stomachs!

He Walks...FINALLY!

On New Year's Day, Alistair finally took his first, unassisted steps! He walked about 5-6 steps at a time and did it a couple of times during the day. He did a few steps here and there this weekend. This morning he walked across our rec room and back. I managed to grab the camera and take a video of the incident. I apologize for the sideways view, I wasn't thinking when I started filming! (: