First Days of Spring

There's nothing like starting off spring with another 12 inches of snow! As typical of Colorado, we woke up on Friday to heavy snowfall, wind, and more winter. Sigh. I was one of only 4 people who came in to work on Friday. But we made the most of it and were outside playing on Saturday and...

Jacoby went skiing with Daddy today! We had a great time. We drove up to Eldora which is more of a local mountain and got them passes for the family area. The weather was beautiful and it wasn't too crowded, so Jacoby began what will be the first of many ski lessons to come with Daddy, our in-house ski adviser. They tackled the dreaded tow-bar with no problems and snow-plowed down the little slope in style. Jacoby did great and seemed to enjoy himself. Justin brought up his old ski gear, which includes skis that are about 20 feet long and were lucky to even fit in the Subaru, so he definitely wasn't going too fast. Morgan and I hung out at the bottom of the run and played in the car until the skiers called it a day and needed a snack. I think Justin is going to get a ski pass next year for both him and Jacoby (skiing is cheap if you're under 5 years of age!), so we're looking forward to doing more of this next year. When we got home, Jacoby asked if we could go ski jumping! (:

Both boys are doing great. Morgan is trekking all around and anywhere he can't walk/crawl to he manages to climb to. On his birthday he somehow broke our gate, so we've been going gate-less for the past couple of weeks with no problems. He's a pro at turning around and sliding down the stairs and has recently shown interest in starting to walk down. He's also beginning to use his voice and words more. The word of the week was "cracker" and anytime we mentioned a snack or cheerios he would start repeating "cracker, cracker, cracker" over and over.

Jacoby is busy learning and pretending to be a garbage man collecting trash. He's turned our coat closet into a garbage truck complete with a cab that he sits in as his little imagination takes him down the street to collect trash. All toy and book bins around the house are susceptible to being dumped in the garbage truck. Jacoby has also taken an interest in learning where our smoke detector is and what happens if there is smoke in the house. During one of our evening conversations he told me that when he gets "really, really, really tall" he's going to be able to put out fires.

Here are a few pictures and a video of our latest snow adventures: