Endless fun

He could play this game all day.

Nemo? Really?

The most overhyped storm in NYC history. Well, I hear CT and Boston got hit pretty hard, so I guess that's not entirely fair, but. It was just a nicely timed, entirely manageable snowfall for us. It didn't start till after rush hour on Friday, it only dumped about 11 inches on us, and it was done by Saturday morning so the kids could go out and romp around. And romp around they did...

Stomping around the neighborhood

Fresh tracks

Then we headed out to the park for a little sledding...

And ran into our friend, little L.!

L and I-roc exchanged tips on how to achieve limb mobility in their space suits.

And L's mom took a few pictures of us, bless her. 

Sledding!

Things we saw in the park this afternoon: a woman with a walker, hiking around in the snow; a stroller on skis being pulled by a woman on skis; a snowman smoking a real, lit cigarette; and a man walking a tightrope between two trees, barefoot. And yes, when he fell off, he landed in the snow on his bare feet.  Eek!

Finally!

I was awoken this morning by P-rock yelling "YES! YES! ALL RIGHT! FINALLY!" Apparently he had looked out the window first thing and seen the 1/2 inch of snow that we got last night. I can't believe it's our first sticking snowfall either, it's been such a boring winter thus far. But not anymore. Let the winter games begin...

(P-roc decided that we needed more snow actually falling from the sky to have fun, so he carefully shoveled up big heaping mounds of it and then flung it all over. Mostly in our faces.)

(I-roc did not mind)

Visit to the carousel

Little man on the move

Santa

We went to visit Santa in Manhattan (where he was unaccountably hanging out in the ABC Carpet store). Some of us weren't so into him.

But Santa gave us lollipops, which made everything magically better.

What passes for civilized dinner conversation at our place these days

While we were sitting around....

...waiting out the hurricane, guess what he figured out?