Weather people: WHY?

She loves her Aunt Sissy and Uncle David! (she really does love Uncle David even tho she's got that funny little expression on her face!).

OK, now on to the important issue of the day:

Why do Weathermen exist?!?!?

Is it solely to cause all Southern grocery stores to run out of bread, milk, and eggs? Is it solely to get children - and adults!- all hyped up about the storm of the century? Is it solely to close all of the local schools and make parents scramble for childcare when the streets are actually DRY?

For two days now, the local weather people have prattled on about the prime conditions for a big storm. Ice and snow and all sorts of nasty stuff. How it's been a couple of years since we've had any real winter precip and this frontal system and the jet stream and yadayada are just right for creating some major complications.

As of 11pm last night, all local school systems were closed. Thankfully, Eileen's school stayed open!

When we woke up this morning, there was barely a dusting on the ground. One local weather person talked about how the system was staying South and East of us. Another local weather person warned of the apocolypse of snow we'd see by mid-morning. How can two stations - just a couple of miles apart, presumably using the same software to "predict" the weather- be so completely opposite in what they have to say?! Bizarre.

Oh - and back to the milk/bread/eggs thing- as my boss said yesterday- what's everyone going to do? Make French Toast?!

Clearly I'm annoyed that we're not at home having a snow day. I didn't actually think my office would shut down- but a delayed opening would have been sooo nice. Oh well. What's done is done. Perhaps the forecast for Monday will be for sunny skies and tropical temps. THEN we might actually see snow.

OK, I'm done. Back to work now. Happy Thursday!

(oh- one good thing: today is the beginning of February sweeps for TV! for those of you not in the TV world - basically it means today starts a whole month of new episodes of all of your favorite shows. Can't WAIT for The Office tonight!)

cereal days

who knew cereal would be so entertaining?

We're still learning to eat with a spoon. Eileen wants to play with the spoon full of cereal. Then, when we get it in her mouth, she wants to bite down on the rubber part. The concept of actually swallowing the food seems lost on Eileen. IF I can get the bottle in her mouth fast enough, she swallows the cereal by default. Otherwise, she spits it back out and the result is what you see here.




She did finish a bowl this weekend, tho again- not sure how much she ate, and how much she wore. But the empty bowl seemed blog worthy anyway.

Nana Janet was here over the weekend. We had lots of fun. Eileen got to stay home from school for two days! Mommy and Daddy even went on a date. We went to the new Irish Pub in town. They pour a niiiice Guinness. Sunday was Nana's bday; we went to Aunt Sissy & Uncle Davids and ate home-made beer & cheese soup.
It was super cold here. We were hoping for some snow (actually, Nana was hoping for a blizzard so she'd get stuck here!) but we just got a very few flurries. When it's that cold (yesterday I think it was in the single digits!) and there's no snow- well, that's just annoying.

Yesterday was back to normal. Eileen was so tired from school she fell sound asleep at 7:15. I barely had time to feed her and give her a bath! Hoping to make more cereal progress this week. We'll keep you posted on the late breaking details of that little adventure!

updated pics: www.eileenloebner.shutterfly.com