December 6, 2007

Nothing surpasses the beauty of freshly fallen snow. Now surely some would argue that it only remains beautiful until you must venture out into it. In my experience, however, focusing only on the beautiful aspect of a potentially negative thing is the best way to keep it from ruining your day, month, or season.

That being said, the four of us still have not ventured out into the winter wonderland to frolic in the snow. Something about the temperature being 8 degrees this morning pretty much made up my mind that today was going to be a stay inside kind of day.

It appears Fred has found himself a new friend in our gray cat, Hagbard, who has taken a liking to him. Hagbard comes to visit Fred next to the railing of the stairs and will sit there while Fred talks to him. I'm pretty sure Fred is trying to convince Hagbard to come over the railing and play with him. Hagbard is not sure that he wants to rush into the relationship that quickly.

Both Fred and Amelia have not lost any fascination with Zach. This morning while Zach was in the excersaucer, the two elder babies were hanging onto the sides and trying to show him the various features of the Evenflo Smartsteps 3000, like the dialing phone with a chew toy where the antennae should be. I could see that all the commotion was starting to turn Zach into excersauce so I put down the support legs to keep it from rocking anymore and found some other things to divert their attention away. A good time was had by all.