Spirit of the Winter Olympics: Silas' Floor Routine

Silas added some flair to bedroom cleanup day...

Miscellaneous February Photos

Well, having a sprained ankle has some benefits. Eric has been taking a ton of pictures and I've managed to get a bunch of the pictures loaded on to our flickr site. Here are a few nice ones of Silas over the past couple of weeks.

Silas eating raisins

The step made a good seat

Silas in heaven

Look... snow!

Snow!!! February 6, 2010

Pittsburgh received 21 inches of snow over a 24 hour period from Friday night through Saturday night. Silas got decked out in his snow suit and headed out to enjoy it. After the snow fell, the sun came out and we had a beautiful snowed in week. I had the entire week off of work because the storm was so massive (plus 4 more inches of snow on Tuesday). Here are a few pictures from the winter wonderland.

Our street

Silas at Friendship Park

Silas helping Papa shovel

Silas likes to sweep AND shovel

and of course... a Video

Video mania - January 2010

Eric and Silas went to Valparaiso to visit Grandma Kathi January 15th-18th. Around that time, Eric got a bunch of great videos of Silas in action. I've spent some time today (February 22nd) uploading a few of them onto our flickr site, and I thought it might be nice to put a whole video post here on Silas's blog.

Here is Silas playing ball at a rest stop on the way home from Valpo



This next one is at the same rest stop. They had a lot of fun there.



After they got home, it was back to daily life in the winter - not a lot of getting out of the house. Here's Silas helping Eric empty the dishwasher.



Silas has also become quite adept at getting into his own chair when it's time to eat.



And this last video is a thing I find fascinating about our son. He prefers to go to sleep with a sippy cup, and whatever toy he was playing with last. Usually, it's a ball. On this particular morning, he woke up with his canoe paddle. Eric and I have speculated that he brings the toy to bed so he has something to play with right when he gets up. He sure seemed like he was glad to have his paddle on this morning.