Below are some pictures of today's blizzard! Altogether I think we got somewhere in the range of 30-35"--the largest amount of snowfall in Maryland history! Alex loved playing outside with our neighbor, Hayden, who i about a year older than him. They played with their sand buckets, trucks, and of course shovels! We even made a pth from our house to theirs so they could back and forth. He loved it so much, he cried when we had to bring him inside for a diaper change, lunch, and a nap. Enjoy our pictures of the crazy, historic snowfall!
This is what we saw when we opened our front door at around 9 AM, far from the storm being over and already anowed in!
Alex and our neighbor Hayden playing with their beach toys on the path we made between our houses!
The flag in our front yard is almost buried!
Helping Daddy shovel us out!
Our neighborhood about 9 AM this morning
Abe in the path that he shoveled by our cars
Running down the neighbor's walkway
Me helping him conquer a mountain of snow!
It hasn't seemed very spring-like the past few days, but it's offically spring now! That means, when the weather cooperates, we can get out of our house and get over our cabin fever! We have had an especially hard winter this year, so I know we are all excited that shorts and swimming is just around the corner! Alex is now a 2 year old, in every sense of the word. He is sweetness and smiling one minute and a demon child the next. We are really enjoying watching his vocabulary develop recently though. He seems to learn 10-20 new words per day! I've started trying to teach him to count, and he sort has 1,2,3 down, but then he goes on to 5,6and then 8,9. LOL. I guess 4 and 7 just don't exist for him! He still loves anything sports related and anything train related, but he's started to really pay attention to cars and trucks a lot too,especially when we're on the road. He really likes firetrucks. Amaya is also growing everyday. She rolls all over the place now and attempts to talk to us. We can tell she's definitely a girl, because she is always making some kind of noise! lol. Enjoy some of our pics of our visit home to Nana and Pap's and our cute kiddos!
Little Amaya and her puppy!
When she smiles big, you can see her dimples!
Getting some help from Nana to blow out his candles at her house
Amaya and her Great-Grandma Glenrose
Alex doing his Mac and Cheese dance for my Mom
Amaya and Abe enjoying some warmer weather!
Alex standing next to his new big boy bed--sports themed, of course!
Cute little Amaya--4 Months old now!
Tristan and Matthew playing together at the party
Alex being sung to next to his Thomas cake
Me and Alex opening our presents!
Alex's Geotrax metropolis that has taken over our living room...for now.
Daniel and our pinata
Amaya having her first bite of rice cereal--she was NOT a fan!
Getting ready to go bye-bye's with a big smile on her face
As you can see from the above pictures, Amaya finally has enough hair to wear a little clippie! Her hair is still pretty thin and pretty fine, but she has a little tuft on top that is just enough to hold in a little clip bow. I think she looks adorable in her little clippie and I am sure you do too! She is getting so big, so fast. I can't believe she is already 3 and half months old! She'll be 4 months on the day of Alex's birthday party--March 7th. She doesn't have a doctor's appointment until March 8th, but I am guessing she weighs around 10-11 lbs. by now. Still a little peanut, but getting there. Alex is turning 2 in a few weeks, and boy does he act like it lately. We have had tantrums galore, and we're not even sure what to do sometimes. We just stare at him and ignore him the best we can, and we've started putting him in time-out, though he doesn't understand the concept too well. He will usually sit in the spot we put him, but he screams the whole time. It's been interesting around here to say the least. He still has his loves--basketball, football, baseball, soccer balls, cars, and of course choos choos especially Thomas the train. In fact, Thomas is the theme we decided to go with for his birthday party. It's his absolute favorite thing right now. He makes special requests to watch Thomas anytime he sees the on-demand screen. On an unrelated note, due to all of the wonderful snow, Abe and I were home with our kids all week, so on Monday we dropped them both off to daycare and decided to have a Mommy and Daddy date day. Plus we needed to celebrate our birthdays and Valentine's Day. So we headed downtown to Fogo de Chao and shopping at Filene's Basement. I came out empty handed, but Abe got a cool new hoodie. Looks like I'll finally be going back to work tomorrow, and I am excited for it! I've been home far too long! Enjoy the photos of our little princess in her clippies and some of our other pics from this weekend. 
This is what he does in the morning...pretends to play xbox, just like Daddy
Little Ice Princess Amaya in the snow!
My little helper helping me clean the pantry and the kitchen on a snow day
Little drummer Boy..LOL..he does this all the time!
Me and Abe getting ready toleave for our day with no kids!
Amaya turned 3 Months old on Sunday, Feb. 7th, so we took her to JCPenny's and had some 3Month photos taken. She looked so sweet in her pink dress, and we even got some little smirks! Amaya's not much of a smiler yet, but she grinned a few times for the camera and we got some really good shots. What do you think?
