Yesterday the university campus (including the library and the children's center) was closed due to bad weather. I was scheduled to work Tuesday night but thankfully the entire campus closed at 4:30. I had a babysitter lined up but I wasn't looking forward to driving the 24 miles home on a very rural highway at 10 PM during the beginning of an ice storm.
So Henry and I had a relaxing day at home. I had just bought him a dancing Pablo of the Backyardigans and he enjoyed watching the show while playing with his own character.
With a little coaxing from me he got up and followed the motions of dancing, as the doll danced and turned around. It is an amazing toy, it pretty much follows the same movements that the cartoon version does, which is computerized from an actual dancer so it is realistic.
Henry also mumbles with the words--I suppose he is actually saying the words but I just don't understand them. He has taken the next step toward language development--he puts more than one word together. He says "Baby's nose", "Daddy's nose", "Baby's ear", "Daddy's ear", etc. as he points from his face to mine. When we are in the store he will point to every baby we see and say "Baby", the point to himself and say "Baby too".
Overall it was a fun and productive day. I didn't have anything planned like I usually do on our days off, so I was able to just stay in and get tasks done in the house that have accumulated.
The photographer wouldn't let Henry stand at the studio the other day, because he was on a platform and I guess they are afraid he might fall off. So I put his ao dai on him and got a full length shot of him. I plan on having him wear it next Tuesday to the campus celebration of the Lunar New Year. We are also going to a celebration in Dallas on Sunday and another on the following Saturday. He might wear it to those, or I might have him wear his red and yellow Vietnam flag shirt.
I was standing in the front door to take these shots, to see what amounts to a snow day here in Texas. This would probably be considered a spring thaw to Henry's brother in Wisconsin.
The weather wasn't that bad, but there was a thin coat of ice on everything and that makes driving dangerous. I guess it isn't worth it economically to do all the plowing and salting and other things that are done up north. It's just easier to close things down for the two or three days a year when the weather gets this bad.
This morning it was still cold, and it was scheduled to get warmer around 9 or 10 AM, but I didn't get the call that things were closed down so we packed into the car and made our way to campus. I stopped along the way and took a photo of the cemetery where my grandparents and brother and other relatives are resting, just to give an idea of the extreme fog that made the drive very slow--but fortunately there were no mishaps and now the sun is shining.
Yesterday the university campus (including the library and the children's center) was closed due to bad weather. I was scheduled to work Tuesday night but thankfully the entire campus closed at 4:30. I had a babysitter lined up but I wasn't looking forward to driving the 24 miles home on a very rural highway at 10 PM during the beginning of an ice storm.
So Henry and I had a relaxing day at home. I had just bought him a dancing Pablo of the Backyardigans and he enjoyed watching the show while playing with his own character.
With a little coaxing from me he got up and followed the motions of dancing, as the doll danced and turned around. It is an amazing toy, it pretty much follows the same movements that the cartoon version does, which is computerized from an actual dancer so it is realistic.
Henry also mumbles with the words--I suppose he is actually saying the words but I just don't understand them. He has taken the next step toward language development--he puts more than one word together. He says "Baby's nose", "Daddy's nose", "Baby's ear", "Daddy's ear", etc. as he points from his face to mine. When we are in the store he will point to every baby we see and say "Baby", the point to himself and say "Baby too". 
Overall it was a fun and productive day. I didn't have anything planned like I usually do on our days off, so I was able to just stay in and get tasks done in the house that have accumulated. 
The photographer wouldn't let Henry stand at the studio the other day, because he was on a platform and I guess they are afraid he might fall off. So I put his ao dai on him and got a full length shot of him. I plan on having him wear it next Tuesday to the campus celebration of the Lunar New Year. We are also going to a celebration in Dallas on Sunday and another on the following Saturday. He might wear it to those, or I might have him wear his red and yellow Vietnam flag shirt.
I was standing in the front door to take these shots, to see what amounts to a snow day here in Texas. This would probably be considered a spring thaw to Henry's brother in Wisconsin. 
The weather wasn't that bad, but there was a thin coat of ice on everything and that makes driving dangerous. I guess it isn't worth it economically to do all the plowing and salting and other things that are done up north. It's just easier to close things down for the two or three days a year when the weather gets this bad.
This morning it was still cold, and it was scheduled to get warmer around 9 or 10 AM, but I didn't get the call that things were closed down so we packed into the car and made our way to campus. I stopped along the way and took a photo of the cemetery where my grandparents and brother and other relatives are resting, just to give an idea of the extreme fog that made the drive very slow--but fortunately there were no mishaps and now the sun is shining.
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