New Snow

Who doesn't love waking up to a wash of fresh snow throughout the city? Lots of people, I bet, but no one in this house. Not any more than an inch of snow fell outside our place but it was a perfect uniform coating over everything: all that dirty, concrete and steel is now awash in white, its beautiful! But melting fast. Kian got to go in 2-hours late today although he's been out of daycare for more than a week so its not as novel as it could be.

Sick Week

If sick week sounds familiar its because we're now on consecutive sick weeks. Kian and I relapsed on the weekend, through no fault of our own, mind you, and Annie succumbed. So this week we've been fighting wounded: Annie has been trying to keep her hospital hours up, Kian gave daycare another go but was rejected, sent home and has been diagnosed with an ear infection, and I've been somehow working extra hours at Cycle U just to bring home the bacon. Bacon bits. There are some signs of improvement now midway through the week but we'll see, our weekend plans might be in jeopardy.

Despite our various states of contagion last weekend we did get out, although kept it to a minimum. We got in some good movie/TV time, and missed out on some amazing crisp sunny weather over at the cabin. Here's a few pics of Kian getting after it at the Leavenworth Hatchery.

K-I-A-N

Earlier this morning Kian surprised us by waltzing into the kitchen and spelling out his name. He is a little sponge right now and has several firsts just about every day. A few days ago he started saying Nope and Yip, in lieu of Yes and No, and although its not good and proper speech to be promoting in a developing child, its pretty awful darn cute.

This week is "sick week" around here. On Tuesday Kian was sent home from daycare not long after I dropped him off, and sure enough he was running a fever that required nurse consultation but never a nurse visit: by the rings under his eyes they guessed its a sinus infection. Tuesday evening I led very hard back-to-back workouts at Cycle-U which made me susceptible and sure enough, by Wednesday evening I had the bug. We've all been feeling pretty lousy this week but we're on the mend, although we'll probably end up taking it easy this weekend despite our ski plans. Buuuuuuummer.

Cuttin and jukin!

Here's a series of shots from the Chiwawa Dog Sled Races
a few weeks ago: sluggin' down some cocoa...

Ma-Za-Ma

We just spent a super 3-day weekend in the Methow Valley with some of our best kid friends. The weather cooperated and we logged some awesome clicks on the ski trails. Here's a few pics from inside our cozy cabin in Mazama and hopefully I've got a few vids from the wild trails of the Mazama too.

Baby Henny (Henry). Baby Henny's not so baby anymore, coming up
on 1-year (and at 24-lbs he's gaining on the "big boys", Oliver and Kian.

Baby Lise (Elise), the youngest of the bunch at about 6-months.

Kian and Oliver.

A Couple Dude-Dads.


Aunt Mary: brave to be hanging out with the baby crew.
And sleeping on the couch. In the closet.

Multitasking.

Back out on the range...

Kian and Henry go sledding.

Oh yeah, you wanna see fast.