Intense train cleaning

Today we had a very intense train cleaning session. In his fist is a napkin with a bit of water on it. Everything got cleaned this morning. Floor, trains, train table, hair, toes, etc. Even the stool got a cleaning top and bottom. 

Snow Man

Yesterday we got quite the snowstorm. They predicted 10 inches to start at 3am. At 7am there was no snow and I felt a little silly for working from home. By mid morning it seemed like just a light snow but it accumulated like crazy and snowed constantly for hours. I was so happy to be home so I could play!

Mid morning or so Simon came into my room to say hi and we watched the snow out of the window. This picture is a little dark, but look at how excited he was to see the snow out there! We planed a snow-play date after Simon's nap and I got some work done. 

Outside pictures and video after the jump.

Mini-Muffin Breakfast

Rarely on a week day do we all have breakfast together, but today was one of those mornings. Jenn came early so Alan and I could leave/start work at 7. As a result we had some family mini-carrot-muffin eating time around 6:45ish. 

More pictures after jump.

2nd Home haircut

The first haircut I gave Simon didn't work out exactly as I'd planned. For Simon's second haircut I actually prepared. Novel, I know. 

We purchased a children's clipper kit that included a very nice cape, the clipper, a pair of scissors and just generally felt more official then the scissors pulled from my sewing basket. It also came with a little how-to dvd which I watched with Alan today at nap time. Alan and I had very different takeaways from this 10 minute how-to... Alan reasonably thought it had looked hard. I of course thought - piece of cake!  

Luckily they suggested having the kid watch a DVD to keep him focused on the entertainment instead of the buzzer. It reminded me of the same lesson I had supposedly already learned with the first haircut at home (with Simon constantly grabbing at the scissors) and I reflected that that was the key with the professional haircut. Distraction. So we set him up to watch an episode of Blues Clues on the computer. It was quite the success. Simon stayed relatively still and we got to cut his whole head. 

It took the whole episode but I'm sure I'll get faster. I say I, but really Alan did his fair share of clipping. It was easier if you could step back for a second and see what was going on - but we didn't want to let Simon get used to no clipper.

Here is a before...

"This whole cape thing is suspicious,
but I get to watch Blues Clues so I'm sure it can't be bad."

Unfortunately I caught him with the clipper edge once and gave him a little nick above his right ear, which he barely seemed to notice but did bleed a spot, beyond that it went rather smoothly. I'm sure I/we will get better with time, but I think it came out pretty good.

All done and I look great!

Lots of before and after pictures after the jump....

Naked baby and big boy cup!

Simon has been stripping down most mornings this week and has been using a real cup too!

Big fish

Jenn, Colleen and Simon went to the Aquarium today. I'm sure they'll have more pictures, but here is a teaser...

Batman and suspenders

Colleen joined us today at Safari. She even got Simon ready for me so we could be on our way faster. Check out his outfit... Japanese batman shirt from Jenn, Striped undershirt, Checkered suspenders from Colleen and new Jeans from GaGa Cindy. He was looken pretty darn cute! 

Simon just wouldn't look at the camera this morning.

Snuggles and french toast.

Love the face!