First crawling, now standing (supported)? We didn't give permission for this!

Ethan decided to celebrate his 7 month birthday by standing!

"Does my butt look big from this angle?"

"Sigh... the view from sitting down isn't as exciting anymore."

Ethan's Crawling!

Watch out world, our little man is on the move! We call this his "Ricky Bobby" outfit, and it was fitting for him to wear the racing outfit his Aunt Tina got him for the occasion!

Afterwards, he was very pleased with his performance!

You can see below what he was doing one week before building up to this big feat!  He had finally accomplished getting on his hands and knees, but couldn't quite figure out where to go from there. 

He would spend 20 minutes at a time rocking back and forth, stuck in one spot!

But that's no more, little man is officially on the move!  Let the babyproofing commence!

A special bonus was the fact that his mommy was working from home this past week and was unusually there for another first.  I've lucked out seeing his first roll and first crawl!

This is "Snoverkill"

We had 20-30" in the first round, and today we're expecting 10-20" more?!  Corinne's been telecommuting since last Friday and some schools have already announced they're closing for the rest of the week!

Here's Snowmageddon from space:

C'mon Mother Nature, let the first round melt a little bit first? The plows have no where to put the snow!

We made it through Snowmageddon!

fter about 20 inches of snow, it was time for this family to dig our way out.

The adventure began with bundling Ethan.  You can see how excited he was about wearing this many layers.  "A Christmas Story" anyone?

Ethan and Chris looked at the level of snow from inside our porch door.  

"Daddy, I'm glad both my parents aren't from Florida!  Your Pennsylvania experience is going to come in handy today!"

Ethan wasn't so sure about this whole winter thing as the snowflakes hit his face.

We wondered if it was too cold for our little tot...

...he thought about it...

... and decided "This is fun!"

This is Ethan acting as our little ruler.  He's standing in a section shoveled by his Daddy, that's the top of the snow meeting the back of his head!

There's a car under there!  The Floridian in the family never would have known to put the windshield wipers up before the storm.  

And our toasty home buried next to it.

Corinne (and Ethan strapped on) shoveled once for an obligatory photo op.

And Chris...

... plowed through the rest!

We went back inside to enjoy the rest of the weekend at home together.

It's a White Wednesday!

Pushing the stroller to the metro this morning for the great DC Baby Exchange (when I'm getting to work in DC, and Chris is leaving work in the city, and we pass off the little man over a little family breakfast) was quite an adventure!  Several inches of snow blanketed our neighborhood and no one else was crazy enough to be outside, nevermind to shovel their walk.  Do they sell strollers with mini-snow plows on the front?  This Floridian isn't used to this!

Our home looked beautiful on the outside, but it would have been nicer to have been toasty on its inside!

Here's a view of the park in our backyard after the overnight snow.  And there's more to come, so says the groundhog anyhow.

Brrrr! It's cold out!

Even at the pharmacy, to pick up his cold medicine, in the 20 degree weather, while teething... Ethan keeps on grinnin'!

First tooth!

Yesterday, Ethan's first tooth pushed through!  And to help gnaw it free, what was his first choice?

Yes, that's right.  The coffee table.  An astute observer might see the many TOYS behind him.  Toys that he scooted past as he army crawled to the furniture.