Costa Rica

Sarah and Jackson are in Costa Rica with Jeanette and her sister Christa. They're having a great time, but I don't have any pictures yet. Jackson took his first swim and the girls have been horseback riding, sightseeing, and scoping for latin pool boys. Also they've been sweltering in the heat and dodging enormous disgusting insects. Yep - I'm perfectly fine being here with perfectly blue skies, highs in the low 40s, light dustings of snow, and most importantly, NO BUGS!!! Much more when they get back.
Jason

Jackson Updates

We've started introducing solid foods (if you call pureed veggies "solid") to Jackson. Both times we got the camera ready expecting some great, funny face, but got nothing.

Here's green beens . . .

Here's peas . . .

Jackson had his 6-month check up this past Monday. He's 19 lbs 3 oz and doing fine. Now if we could just stop him from getting sick at stupid day care, we'll be pretty happy.

Snowy Weather

I love this time of year. For about a month - month & 1/2 each winter we get some amount of snow every week or so. It is often only a heavy dusting, but often times more. Last Tuesday it snowed all day and was supposed to stop in the evening. It hardly accumulated during the day, but then it didn't stop until much later that night. By the time I took Lincoln out for a late walk ~10:30, there was ~4 inches on the ground, and by the morning we had ~ 4.5 - 5 inches.

I absolutely love the snow. I belong in places with snow, and the more the better. I don't think there is such a thing as too much snow. Anyway, here are some picture of my evening walk with Lincoln.

Below is a nice picture of a path near our house. That's Lincoln on the left as the "ghost dog".

It is cool here because when it is snowing at night and there is snow on the ground, it is so light outside it is almost like daytime. All the city lights bouncing off the clouds and snow.

Her'e Jackson the next morning sitting in the snow in his snow suit.

We had a beautiful weekend. It was 60 degrees today and sunny. There was hardly any snow left, but we cound a small area of patchy slushy remnants in Valley Forge National Park right by our house. So, we put Jackson on a cookie sheet for his 1st sledding experience. At first he sat up . . . (for the computer illiterate members of the family, push the gray triangle in the lower left of the screen that looks like a play button - this is video).

An then he laid on his back. I think Sarah and I had a lot more fun with it than he did.