Shortly after Daniel's birth we were boasting of his luscious locks. Now the chicken is coming home to roost as it seems there is less and less of it every day. Top, sides, back--it's all thinning and in some cases disappearing. We were pretty sure this would happen, and, frankly, I'm not sad to see it go. I love bald babies! Plus, look how much it saved us in shampoo and haircuts for Edward to be bald for his first two years.

This week I ventured out into the world again as Daniel and I reached that six-week milestone. I started taking Ed to daycare and even ran a few errands with Daniel during the morning hours. After the first day, when I was ready for bed by 8 p.m., I sighed to John, "It's exhausting to leave the house!" Well, not just leave the house, but to do so with an infant and toddler in tow and a thick layer of snow and ice over every walking surface.

Today it's above freezing and the sun in shining, so we're seeing quite a bit of melting. We're not dancing a spring dance though as three to seven more inches are possible by Tuesday morning. That could vault us into the top five or even top three snowiest winters of all time for our area. Daniel believes the only way to survive is to stay home and fatten up. He hit his six-week growth spurt right on schedule and has been eating nearly every two hours during the day for the last few days. Luckily he does not deem it necessary to maintain such a schedule overnight. In fact he occasionally has gone as long as five hours between his evening meal and his middle-of-the-night snack. Usually it's closer to three and a half or four though.

Yesterday the timing worked out that I was able to feed Daniel and then leave him home with John while I took Edward to burn off some energy at the mall play area, all before the mall even opened for business. (It's open for mall walkers before the stores open and I believe this is the only time the play area can be tolerated.) He is so active there, constantly running, jumping, sliding, swinging (from the handrail on the wheelchair access ramp!) It will be so fun to see how his park play has changed since fall. That is, once we can get back to the park!

Daniel isn't quite up to that level of activity, but I took some video this week just for our archives. This is about a minute of baby grunting and arm waving--not exactly Oscar material--but we know how easy it is to forget these early days and want to be sure we can jog our memories in the years to come.