We made blackberry shakes the other night while we were watching TV. As usual Levi was clamoring all over us to have some, so we obliged.
He wouldn’t stop asking for bites until both of our glasses were finished. It’s pretty safe to say he’ll eat anything he can fit in his mouth, including the wood finishing buttons from our chairs, the cap to the chapstick, rocks from our shoes in the entry-way, seeds from lemons he finds in the carpet, and the hanger ribbon from Meribeth’s sweater!
This morning I woke up and got ready to go to the hospital and saw this outside our deck door:
While walking from my car to the hospital, in the span of 3 minutes, my nose hairs froze to each other, the sidewalls of my nostrils froze together, and the moisture off my chin accumulated in my gotee and froze together so I couldn’t move my chin freely. It was cold!!
- Seth
Levi and I didn’t go anywhere today. When we got up this morning it was –22 and never warmed up past –7, so who could blame us! But, it was nice and sunny so our apartment was very bright and. . . perfect for picture taking! I’m kind-of obsessed with taking pictures of Levi. He’s just changing so fast and I love the thrill of satisfaction when I can say ,“that’s a good one!” and the challenge of keeping up after a FAST crawling Levi! I’ve also been really inspired by a local photographer – her website is amazing and I would take Levi there in a heartbeat. BUT, it’s insanely expensive. It’s ok though. I’m having a blast trying to get the perfect shot! Here are some of my favorites from today.
We have about 6 inches of snow on the deck due to the vast amount of snow Fargo has received this winter. Actually, it’s the most snow they’ve ever received up to this point in the winter. Something like 36” during the month of December. I guess we picked a good winter to be here! We’ve had 10, 20, 30 and even 40+ below temperatures with the wind. It’s crazy how warm 0 feels when it’s been that way for a while! Today it was 16 outside, so we decided to bundle up Levi and put him in the drift on our deck. He wasn’t so sure about that cold, fluffy stuff.
Next year, I’m sure he’ll enjoy it quite a bit more. Hopefully, we can get some sledding in this year too!
I was on call this morning, but, when I was done with the hospital at noon I ran over to Wal-Mart to get a present for Meribeth that I had shipped site-to-store. Bad idea. I stood there for 15 minutes waiting for someone to help me and finally was able to pick up her chopper that she wanted. When I got home, she had lunch on the table for me which was so nice of her on her birthday. She had taken this picture today, which I thought was so funny:
She told me she checked to make sure he was still breathing, which seems appropriate! He must have been sleepy!
I got a couple hour nap as I had a pretty rough night (about an hour and a half of sleep), and then we got ready and dropped Levi off with one of my co-interns and his wife. We went out for supper at an upscale Mexican place downtown Fargo called Juano’s. 
Seth and I woke up this morning to the Blizzard of 2008 in Fargo. He braved it into the hospital, jumped up on the median on the way, plowed through some drifts, but made it safely. He was there just a couple hours to round on a few patients, but then had to turn around and come back! He got all the way to our apartment, but got stuck in a snow drift outside the underground garage. So, Seth and I bundled up and went out to get the car unstuck while Levi took a nap.
We don’t have a shovel to our names, so we used the only thing we could think of…..a cookie sheet - - to dig ourselves out. I was the driver and Seth dug us out. He would take breaks and come in the car and his eyelashes had huge icicles on them and were partially frozen shut at the corners! We got inside and checked the weather and it is –40 F with the wind. No wonder!
A little while back, Seth updated our blog and we were determined to keep writing on here. Well, that obviously didn’t happen so we will try this again! So much has changed since our last post! Levi turned ONE this past Friday – I can hardly believe it! I keep playing the '”last year at this time” little game in my mind as I recall all the joy and excitement of his birth : the day my sister Katie came to help us out and be there for me during labor, going to the hospital to be induced, the pain of labor, the joy and awe I had when he finally came at 10:40 am, the day we went home, the day my parents came to meet him --just so many memories that I relive now as the one yr mark comes and goes. To say it’s amazing how that little newborn that I held one year ago is now a laughing, crawling, 28 pound little man is such an understatement!
Just two weeks old above.
Today we said goodbye to G & G F. as they left to go back to GR. It was so fun to have them here for the week. Levi really took to them and would smile whenever he even looked at them. It was such a relief for us as he doesn’t see them very often except for Skype chats.
After they left we are left to deal with “I don’t want to lay on the floor and not be played with.” :) It’ll be ok. He’ll get through it.
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