White Surprise after a LONG Week

This week started out with Jacob getting a cold last Sunday quickly followed by tonsillitis on Monday. He was sent home from daycare on Monday and stayed home both Tuesday and Wednesday. He dealt with the infected tonsils like a champ, but he had a fever for three days that really knocked him down. He was doing much better by Wednesday afternoon so we went ahead and made the trip down to Decatur early so we could visit with my family that was in town for Thanksgiving. Most of my family (minus my cousins) on my dad's side were here so it was a great Thanksgiving. Friday was spent with Dan shopping (starting a 4 am!) and getting Christmas decorations set up inside and outside. I wanted Jacob to have a quiet and regular day so he could catch up on some rest, so we stayed home all day which was nice. On Saturday we went to Dan's mom's house for the Engel Thanksgiving. There was a lot of family there and Jacob got to play with his cousins. It will be interesting next year because Dan's older sister is due with her third six days after ours is due and his brother is expecting his first a month later!

After a long week, today has been fairly quiet. As a surprise, we woke up to several inches of snow!! This was one of those snows that cakes everything in its path so all of the trees were full of snow and it was so pretty outside! It snowed a couple more inches in the morning and we stopped at Target on the way home from church to pick up Jacob some snow boots. After a quick nap, Jacob had his first snow adventure. He got all bundled up and we played in the snow in the backyard. The five inches of snow turned out to be impossible for him to walk in so we let him go down our slide over and over!! He had a blast and didn't want to quit. Here are some pictures and a video of Jacob playing in the snow.



After Jacob's first attempt of standing in the snow

Sitting on a mound of snow that Dan made after shovelling an area for Rascal

Jacob and Daddy

Jacob and Mommy

Excited to go down the slide

Again!

And again!!


Video of Jacob going down the slide