Brr!

Yesterday was the kids' check-up with the doctor.  We went for Owen's 3-year and Hadley's 6-month in the same visit!  

• Owen is over 38" tall (75%) and 32 lbs (50%), so he's slowing down a bit, but completely healthy.  Yea!
• Hadley is 26" long (50%) and 14.25 lbs (15%!), but her head is at the 90th-percentile!  So, she's a bit of a bobble-head.  Ha ha!  The doctor is a little concerned, since her growth has been dropping percentiles, so I'll have to take her in to be weighed every month.  Hopefully, she's just little and there's nothing more serious going on! Here's her cute, little foot (shown to scale with a matchbox car) while in the jumperoo.

Since she hit the 6-month milestone, we've been introducing solid foods, which is always kind of amusing.  So far she's sampled rice cereal, sweet potatoes, avocado, and prunes.  Here are some of her first moments with sweet potato.

And, lastly, it has been pretty ridiculously cold here in the last week or two!  Next week, depending on who you believe, the forecast has a HIGH temperature of 2 degrees Fahrenheit for one of the days!!  (Two other days have highs of 4 and 6.)  And there are several days in the double digit negative temperatures for lows during the night.  Oh my.   How have we been surviving?  Layers and lots of them!

Continuing our water woes in this house, the recent negative temperatures caused a pipe INSIDE our house to freeze!  (It was a bathtub faucet near a north-facing wall that apparently needs more insulation.)  Luckily, it's thawed out now, but we are about to have more extended sub-freezing temperatures, so cross your fingers that our temporary, free preventative measures will be enough this time around.  In the mean time, we'll be trying to enjoy the cold and snow!