I can't go out to play today...

It has been a snowy weekend in Boulder.  It used to be that meant a fantastic weekend of skiing in the mountains for us (20" of fresh in Crested Butte!!!).  But not these days.  We stayed in this weekend, and you know, it was pretty fun.  We had some plans to get out and go snowshoeing with Xander, but they never quite worked out.  Instead we stayed inside and played.











Xander has truly discovered the stairs.  He is getting pretty proficient at climbing up, but is still quite uncertain about going down. 


He moves so quickly these days, you can't turn your back on him for more than a moment.  He loves really physical games, and enjoys being bounced and swung around.  He also has started getting interested in shapes.  He has a couple of toys with squares and triangles and circles that fit into their respective holes.  He has really enjoyed playing with these recently and is fascinated by putting the right block in the right hole. 

Xander has also developed quite a daddy thing lately.  He loves spending time with me, which I love.  I was in Huntsville all last week, and I'm always a little worried how he is going to react when I get back home.  He was thrilled to see me when I got home on Friday and we have enjoyed hanging out this weekend.

We did some other things this weekend as well. I got the taxes done. Erin and I worked on Erin's skis on Saturday, her Naxo bindings are really too big, and as a result don't fit the right size AT boots for her. We got out the hack saw and drill and were able to shorten her bindings and get everything to fit!  Yea!

I went for a nice run in late Sunday afternoon.  I hadn't gotten any exercise all weekend, and Erin knows that it is best for both of us if I do.  As David says, exercise is my prozac.  I took the dogs and headed for teller farms.  The trail was snow packed, but very runable and we had a great run.  There was so much wildlife out in the late afternoon.  I saw a giant flock of geese, forming multiple overlapping Vs as they winged across the sky, there was a pair of hawks all puffed up keeping warm high up in a tree, a herd of 12 deer drinking from the creek, a flock of ducks swimming along the creek, and finally a pack of coyotes out hunting, howling to each other.  It was a beautiful run, I managed about 7 miles in around an hour, finishing up just as it started to get dark.


-Jake