crazy snow

we made it home safely. i know that lots of people were worried watching the weather reports, but our flight wasn't even delayed. we did have to circle the airport a few times when we arrived because of all the other flights coming in that had been delayed. apparently the airport had been closed for a while on friday. when we came in you could see from the air how clear the roads already were and they were almost dry on our drive home. there was a lot of snow on the ground though! everything was white! we have never seen snow stick like that! it is even on the sides of the trees and telephone poles several inches thick. matt had to dig the car out from under about 6 inches of snow at the airport so that we could go home. and the digging didn't stop there...

when we got home we realized that the snow removal service had not been out to the house yet because we have between 5 and 7 inches of snow on the driveway. matt dug a path to the garage for maddie and i to get inside before shoveling the rest of the driveway to get the car in the garage.

after matt got warmed back up, he and i had our own little Christmas at home and exchanged our gifts to each other. it was just nice to have a little quiet time together at home.

we spent the weekend running errands, unpacking, and doing laundry. so maddie hasn't really had a chance to get back on her normal schedule yet. she did manage to take a 3-1/2 hour nap yesterday afternoon and slept until 9am (after a 6am snack) that morning. matt has to work tomorrow so maddie and i will probably hang out at the house and have a pretty quiet day.

she likes being back to her homemade foods too. and when we tried avocado again she ate 5 tablespoons with "mmm"s the whole time. finally she has accepted the texture. we also tried banana puff snacks today. she only ate one of the three we gave her, but she did manage to pick them up herself. she would hold them in her hand and suck her thumb. she kept trying to eat them and ended up sucking her thumb. we will just have to keep practicing picking them up and putting them in her mouth. tomorrow we are going to try yogurt and later in the week - mango.

sorry that there are no maddie pics today. i will do better later this week.