I guess I should start off with the tale of our first week back from Florida. As I mentioned at the end of my last post, we returned to a bit of snow. It just kept coming after that. We took both kids in to daycare the day after the Super Bowl, and then John and I went to brunch and to see a movie. We both wanted to relax before heading back to work, and this way Liam also had a relatively short first day so he could get used to things. He did fine. That night it snowed.
We received the notice about 5am the next morning that daycare would be on a 2 hour delay. Nice way to start back to work. We took our time getting ready, and left the house in just enough time to get to daycare just as they were supposed to open. The interstates still had quite a bit of snow on them, and the commute took us a little over twice as long as normal. When we arrived at daycare, we found out it was closed. They had changed the status from delay to closed right after we left the house.
There was no time to get back home before John's first meeting, so he took Charlie and I took Liam and we went to our respective offices. Charlie hung up John's phone while he was on a conference call, and I had to run across the street from my office to Walgreens to buy extra diapers for Liam, but other than that, it was rather uneventful. When we got to a stopping point in our work, we headed home and worked there for the rest of the day.
In the coming weeks we had a lot more snow, and several days where we carpooled in to work because of it. It was a record February in terms of snowfall for Cincinnati. It's been warm (up to the 50's-60's) and sunny here the past few days, but we still have piles of snow by the driveway. In the backyard, it was up to Lucy's tummy, and she kept retracing her steps so as to not have to plow a new way through the snow. When John took Charlie out back to build a fort in the snow, it was too deep and he didn't like it. So they came right back in.
Charlie went to two birthday parties in February that he enjoyed quite a bit. He got to dress as a fireman and sit in a real fire engine at Jack's 4th birthday. And he got to go bowling for the first time at Ryan's 5th birthday up in Columbus. He didn't have to wear bowling shoes, because they didn't have them small enough for his size.
He also started swimming lessons at a local indoor pool on Saturday mornings. We were surprised when we got to the first class to see that his buddy Oscar was enrolled in the same class! He still doesn't like to get his head wet, but we're seeing some progress, and really hope this will help our outings to the pool this summer a lot more fun.
We're still working out a routine in the mornings as far as getting the kids ready and in to daycare before work. Every day is a little bit different, depending on the weather, our schedules, and when the kids wake up. But Liam seems to do pretty well and has a good time while at the center. Charlie started an enrichment program called "Stretch and Grow" which he really seems to like. He loves helping with Liam's bottles at drop off, and he gets upset if I go get Liam before picking him up, because he likes to help at the end of the day, too. Pretty soon we'll be talking about transition up to pre-school for Charlie. How time flies!
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