26 Weeks--Baby's First Blizzard!

26 Week Baby Bump in the Blizzard of 2013!

General Update:

We don't have anything new to report on the baby front this week, but wow, what an interesting end to the work week!  Blizzard Nemo gave Caleb a full snow day on Friday and I was able to leave work at noon!  Nothing like an extended weekend!  :)  I'll admit, at first I thought everyone was hyping up this storm for nothing.  After all, we've been through snow storms like this in northern Maine plenty of times and the state never banned people from driving!  I quickly learned that 2 feet of snow in northern Maine and 2 feet of snow in Boston are not comparable.  In Maine, there are plenty of places to plow the snow, fewer roads, less traffic, and everyone has their own cars to get around.  In Boston, an enormous amount of people rely on public transportation to get around, so when the trains cannot run due to snow on the tracks, it affects everything.  Not to mention, the snow plows can't keep up with all the roads that need to be plowed and they have nowhere to put the snow!

We had a great time being "snowed in".  We cooked and cleaned.  Caleb studied, I knitted.  It was great!  I tried to make an effort to be more productive by gathering our laundry, but wouldn't you know, the laundromat was closed.  Too bad!  Haha.  You would've thought that Caleb had never seen snow before.  He took frequent excursions outside during the blizzard to see how things were progressing.  :)  I couldn't have asked for a better weekend!

Our Daughter, the Head of Lettuce, at 26 Weeks.

Baby Girl's Development This Week:

-She has eyelashes!-
-Inhaling and exhaling amniotic fluid (practice for when she breathes air for the first time!)-
-The nerves in her ears are more developed so she's listening to us very closely now-

More Pictures from Blizzard Nemo!

We had a delicious dinner of "herbs de Provence orange roasted chicken" with roasted red potatoes, zucchini, and summer squash.

Caleb, professional "weather watcher", was impossible to keep inside!!  He wanted to be where the action was!

I joined Caleb for one of his many excursions into the eye of the blizzard.

When we woke up this morning, we had a surprise in our kitchen.  The snow drifted and piled up on our fire escape!  Never thought I'd see that in a 3rd floor apartment!

Baby Girl made out like a bandit during this blizzard!  The storm gave me time to work on the sweater I've been knitting her.  This is my first attempt at knitting something that is not a square or rectangle.

Caleb took another few excursions outside today.  This is a picture of the cars on our street.

There was a driving ban in all of Massachusetts Friday evening and most of the day Saturday.  It was strange to have no cars in sight and to see people walking up and down Harvard Ave in the middle of the road.

Caleb checked up on my car which was buried.

Thankfully, he went against my advice and bought a shovel Friday before the storm started.  It came in handy!