Saturday, January 24, 2009

Day in the Snow

So....we had an awesome/gorgeous/fabulously warm day last week and we took advantage of it. I got home from work and asked Allison if she wanted to play in the snow and go sledding...and of course...I got a big squeal! Which I'm assuming meant YES! So we bundled her up and headed on out! Now, this may not be a big deal to most of you, but....this was Allison's first actually day out in the snow playing! It's been so frigid cold here that we've kept her in most of the winter, plus she had been fighting off a bad cold and cough...lasted about 4 weeks!

So, we were pretty excited to get outside. Here are a few photos from our day in the snow.



Throwing a snowball...you can see it in the top left corner of the photo!


Laughing after she hit me with the snowball!


Getting a ride in HER sled!


Rascal, our outdoor cat, decided to enjoy the sun while he watched us play in the snow!

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Surviving!

Yep, just doing it like everyone else, turning up a heat a bit, grabbing as many blankets as possible and staying inside! That's how we are managing the cold. We've had to manage staying warm a lot more than normal lately as our furnace has been on the fritz, won't stay lit, cold air just moving through the house. However, finally got it fixed today after dealing with it for over a week and a half. So I am extremely happy that it's fixed, even though we are suppose to have a warm up this next week. That'll be nice, it'll give us a break from using so much propane to heat the house.

Allison has finally gotten over her nasty cold and cough, lasted about 2 1/2 weeks!!! I was pretty sure she was going to have to visit the ER one night as she had a pretty high temperature, but managed to bring it down after staying up with her all night. So I'm glad that the sickness is gone from our home....at least for now! Seems almost everything has been through our house!

We are making some good progress with Allison and her potty training. As soon as the diapers run out it's onto the pull ups we purchased a few months back. So that will be a change for us and hopefully these go up and down easier for her! Oh yea, don't ya just love potty training talk!
Chuck has been working on ABC's and numbers with Allison. Still can't get her to do all the talking we would like her to do, but in part that's my fault for keeping that little thing called a "binky" around!!!

Not much else to update on. We survived the bitter cold and hoping that it doesn't return. Looking forward to maybe getting out into the snow with Allison the next few days....if there is anything left after our "heat wave".

Hope everyone survived the cold and is doing well!