Friday, January 29, 2010

Organizing...

I was taking a shower this morning and I thought Joey was sitting quietly watching Barney. When I finished my shower, I realized that he had really been working. He decided that my drawer of swim wear needed some reorganizing. Then he needed to give a fashion show...







Tuesday, January 12, 2010

First Day of School

Joey started Mother's Day Out this morning. Joey is very social and curious and we thought it would be good for him to be around other kids. He'll be attending on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. I dropped him off this morning and right away he spotted a stuffed Barney on the shelf in his classroom. He looked at me and said, "Buh" (which is how he says bye), and walked over to get Barney. I hope he's having a fun morning.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Snow-maha!

Joey was supposed to start "school" (or Mother's Day Out) today. He'll be attending two mornings a week and we are all looking forward to this, especially Joey who loves being around other kids. But school was cancelled today--a snow day. Here are some fun facts about our Nebraska winter thus far as printed in this morning's Omaha World Herald...


-The snow that fell in Omaha this week, including Wednesday's 4.8 inches, has pushed the metro area over the 30.3 inches that's normal for an entire winter season.

-There is more snow on the ground, 21 inches, than in any January since 1948 — the earliest date for which reliable snow records are available.

-The average temperature in Omaha for the first five days of the year has been 3.1 degrees, the third-lowest on record dating to the late 1800s. Reliable temperature records have been kept longer than snowfall measurements.

-And on Friday, Omaha's daytime high isn't expected to climb above zero. That hasn't happened since 1997, said Ken Dewey, an applied climatologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's School of Natural Resources.



Joey has been a good sport and has been having fun playing inside with his new Christmas toys, but the cabin fever is starting to settle in for all of us...