Snowstorm Day 2

We had a significant amount of snow by dinner time last night. Paul went out to shovel the sidewalk since more snow was forecast. By this morning, you couldn't tell that Paul had shoveled anything the night before- we probably doubled our snowfall amount overnight.

Views from this morning:

You can see the door just barely opened over the snow.

Yes, Paul did shovel this about 12 hours earlier.

The birds were very active at the birdfeeder all weekend.

Venturing out. It was much nicer being out in the snow today as opposed to yesterday.

Our dog hates going out when it rains, but as soon as there's snow, he loves it - rolls in it, runs in it, acts like a puppy.

The tracks behind Rudy are made by Rudy and Lou.

The empty lot at the end of our street.

Boy's best friend.

This is what our cars looked like.

After playing in the snow, what does my son want to do? Eat snow. He did the same thing last year.

Our house tonight - walkway cleared (even though I am hoping for another snow day) and looking very Christmasy.

First Snowstorm

Today we had our first snowstorm of the winter - although technically it's not even winter yet. These are the first set of pictures.

The view from our back windows when we woke up.

Paul making a snowman (Rudy really wanted very little to do with it).

Our backyard - this is several hours into the storm - probably at least 4 inches had fallen.

Rudy trying to pull sticks from the tree to use for the snowman's arms.

Our two snowmen.

FFF- Christmas Card?

Too bad I already sent out Christmas cards out because these would have made great pictures for them!











This is just after Rudy and Paul brought our tree home. Rudy chose the superhero poses while Paul took the pictures.

Spiderman and Santa

The two subjects of the post are not connected in anyway. I just don't feel like splitting them.

Yesterday on the way home from school we stopped to get Rudy some new mittens. The choices in toddlers were few, but fortunately for Rudy, one of them was a Spiderman hat and mittens. He now wears them around the house.





Today we went to a Christmas party for families in our area with children adopted from Guatemala. This was only the second event we've gone to with this group but we had a nice time and sat with a family whose son is about 2 weeks younger than Rudy. By the end of the afternoon the boys were running around and playing together. Of course, the highlight of the party was the visit from Santa.





This is the second time so far Rudy has sat on Santa's lap (okay the first time it was St. Nicholas at a church party) and he has remained very consistent: he wants Batman, Robin, their house and car (aka the Batmobile). We'll see what Santa has planned.

FFF- Happy Boy

As usual, I couldn't get a forward facing picture of Rudy but you can see his smile and enjoyment as he looked at the Christmas lights.

Signs of Christmas

We knew there was supposed to be a small tree lighting and Santa visit in our town tonight but couldn't find much about it. Rudy desperately needed a haircut so we went there, which just happens to be across the street from the tree lighting. We managed to time it perfectly and after Rudy's haircut, walked over to sing some carols, see the tree be lit and say hi to Santa.

I didn't get a good picture of Rudy saying hi to Santa but in this picture he is standing directly behind Santa, waiting for him to turn around and Rudy jumping around in anticipation.

After seeing Santa, we took a drive to look at Christmas lights. One house nearby always puts on a huge display with lights that flash to a local radio station. As you can see, Rudy loved it. As we were getting ready to leave, some songs and lines from The Grinch came on.

Random Rudyness

I know I have been absent from blogging (even from FFF - sorry, Patti). There's no real reason for it - just after Thanksgiving and multiple birthday celebrations, we actually had a (relatively) quiet week. I also have a hard time blogging if I don't have pictures taken - just shows how visual of a person I am.

So some random pictures and explanations.
Rudy's new light up slippers. He was so excited when we bought these yesterday. But he wouldn't let me take a picture of him or them. So I suggested HE take a picture and he was all over it.

Tonight Rudy was using a pair of my socks (that I was trying to put away) as tools on his hands. First they were to help him climb and then to help him fly and finally to help him glide.

Here he is flying down the stairs.

Anyone who has read this blog for a while knows that Gato is Rudy's favorite animal. However, months ago, Rudy won this bear, named Beary, and he and Gato are now part of a team.

Rudy recently informed me that Gato is the Mommy, Beary is the Poppy and Kitten (which he got from Grandmom and Gram for Halloween) is the baby. Frequently other animals are called into service as the brother, sister or cousin. Some mornings when he comes downstairs, Rudy is frantically trying to hold three or more animals to bring the whole family down with him.