Snow and Suits and Samuel

Yay! Samuel made it to Boston for the second time in his life so far (and will make it much more), and had a great time being babysat by some good friends, Sarah and Spencer, while Mom and Dad went to the temple. He even got on his ginormously huge coat and we went playing in the snow!











Here he is enjoying (maybe?) his ride on a sled. He just laid there and stared up....













Here is how he likes to use his binky sometimes. :-)

















And here's what happens when you rub your eyes with food all over your hands. (Don't try this at home, kids).














January 23 (1/23) is National Pie Day that we celebrated in style. We had berry pie (my first homemade fruit pie--it turned out quite well, and Rich even helped me figure out how to do a lattice top crust!), peanut butter pie, and pumpkin pie that our friends brought. Not pictured: the banana cream pie that didn't set up at all.












Here is Samuel standing up! He loves to get around hanging on to stuff. And he loves (as you can see) to find the computer and unplug it. Which wouldn't be that big of a deal, except our battery is completely dead. Oh, well. He sure has fun doing it!



















Our new living room, complete with curtains.














Here is our new kitchen. That door goes down to our laundry room (yea!!!) and out to our garage (yea!!!).













And here is our little man this morning, all dressed up for church in his new too-big suit!! :-)

New House!

So, we are back in New York for some indefinite period of time. It's nice to be able to settle in long term, but it's a little weird not knowing what the next step is. We're definitely still in the moving-in phase (what a pile of boxes!), but it's slowly becoming a home. We're going to have curtains, which will be fun--we've never had those before.








This is what our new apartment looks like (taken from our actual apartment, but as you can see, all the buildings look the same. We have a garage and a washer/dryer!! Yeah!! Remember this tree--this is after our first snowstorm that happened while we were moving in. See that pile of snow around the tree? Apparently, this is right where they pile a lot of the snow when they plow.








Speaking of plows, here they are! I was so surprised the morning of this storm to see these great big bulldozers coming in to get the snow out for us. Wow, they know how to get rid of snow in New York. (The rest of the day had normal plows on trucks).































Remember that tree? Here it is after storm #2!














And here's Samuel trying to learn to have fun in his playpen. I don't know why his teeth look extra long.











We love being back in our ward; we both spoke in Sacrament Meeting today, and Richard has already been called as the Sunday School President. We've been to the dentist (only one cavity for me!--at least, only one that they're going to fix :-). We're figuring our way around town (and when I say town, I really mean other towns--we're kind of on the outskirts of a town that doesn't even have a grocery store). Samuel is slowly getting back to his old sleeping patterns, though he's recently been refusing solid foods unless he can use his own hands to eat, which limits his diet to bananas and those puff crackers. Anyone else had that experience? But anyway, life is good.