Entry by Mark

Seattle was buried by an immense snowstorm in the last few days. There is more snow than I have seen in a while. I am thankful we have a 4x4 now. Rebecca and I have been staying home from the office and doing work from home. It is hard to work when there is so much fun outside.

We dressed J in her snowsuit and headed out to check out the neighborhood. I wondered whether she was registering that it was a lot different than usual, and that this was out of the ordinary. She was taking it all in stride.







Entry by Rebecca-
Here are some photos from our backyard. It is a real winter wonderland. Folks have been x-country skiing in the streets. Yesterday on our walk we saw parents pulling their kids on sleds. The kids were yelling, "Faster Daddy Faster" and I thought that is going be our little girl in a couple of years. Mark sat in our back room with Josie while I tried to work yesterday and told her stories about the big blizzard of 1978.





Here is Josie "apres" snow. She is just chillin' out with her snow suit unzipped. I picked up this snow suit for $20.00 at the Hanna Anderson outlet in Woodenville. Most of the clothes I buy there are only $5.00 each, but I decided to spend the big bucks on the pink snow suit since all of her hand-me-downs are from boys.






Aren't Mark and Josie the best looking daddy/daughter duo in the world? Each day I am so happy we are a family. Mark has been real trooper helping out during Josie's recent illness. Last Wednesday Josie got a temperature of 102.4. We took her to the doctor and they checked her out and sent us home with the diagnosis of "viral cold" and instructions to take Tylenol. The next day her temp was still over 101.5 and she was miserable... crying non-stop, arching her back, boogers and snot everywhere. Her eye was also goopy and yellow. We went back to the doctor and she was given amoxicillin. Good news is that she started to feel better after five doses of the anti-biotic. As you can tell from the photo, she was happy to get out of the house and take in the snow.




Here is the family in the snow. We went to the Loyal Heights Community Center near our house and there were tons of kids and parents on flying saucers, sleds and even snowboards. Folks had built little bumps in the snow. We might blow up our intertubes and go later today. And grandmothers don't worry - we won't take the baby down the hill!



Sweet sleeping baby