Week 46: Digging Out

For consistency's sake, I'll open this week by saying - what a busy week! As I mentioned in the past post, we were fortunate to get access to some last minute Super Bowl tickets. It took some finagling, but we managed to arrange for travel, hotels, babysitters and all in a few days and take advantage. We ended up flying to Kansas City, dropping off Jonah with Grandma Carolyn and having Grandpa Jerry drive us to Dallas. He was rewarded with a ticket to the big game! Grandma was rewarded with time with Jonah! Grandma Connie and Grandpa Jack picked up Jonah on Monday morning, spent a day spoiling him and we drove back to Liberty that afternoon. All in all, I think we all had a great time.

We were a little worried about this trip with Jonah. He had stayed with Grandma and Grandpa before while we took a short trip to Chicago. However, he stayed with Grandma and Grandpa in our apartment. We weren't sure what would happen in a place that he doesn't know as well; we were particularly nervous about him transitioning to Grandma Connie and Grandpa Jack without us there. He did a great job, though! Guess that means we need to plan to get away more often.

The other part of the trip that made us uneasy was the weather. I'm sure it comes as a big surprise to hear that this winter has been particularly brutal for most everyone in the country. Between Christmas and the end of January New York City saw 60 inches of snow; so, our weather has remained dicey. A few days before we flew to KC, a big snow storm tore through the Midwest. Grandpa Jerry and Grandma Carolyn were in the spot that got the most snow from the storm in the entire State of Missouri. Lovely. They ended up with 23 inches. I assured them that that amount was little more than a dusting. . .

The one night that mom and dad stayed at Grandma and Grandpa's house, they ended up with another 2 inches overnight. Jonah was very excited to get up the next morning and help Grandpa Jerry shovel the snow. Jonah had a slight advantage over Grandpa with his big digger - while Grandpa wielded a mere shovel.

It's fun to see Jonah have such a great time with his Grandparents and to see him grow to be more and more independent.

Photo - this is a rented 16-35mm lens (HAD to have that for the Super Bowl!) at 16mm and f/8; straight sunlight bounced off 25 inches of cold white reflectors.

If you are interested - here are some more shots of the "shoveling"
http://web.me.com/rwdavi/rwdavi/Albums/Pages/Digging_Out.html

And here are some Super Bowl photos:
http://web.me.com/rwdavi/rwdavi/Albums/Pages/Super_Bowl%21.html