Let It Snow! And snow and snow and snow...

We are in Denver, Co in the middle of the biggest blizzard in 17 years. Yeah... We expected it to be cold and to see some snow, but not like this! Thank God (and I really mean that) for providing us with a hotel room when we had already checked several hotels that were full.

It's still snowing and probably will be all night. Hopefully we can get to our destination in the Rocky Mountains tomorrow! I bet it's beautiful up there.

Here's Catie playing in her car seat at around 10:00 am this morning. We were leaving Kansas; entering Colorado.


As you can see, no snow yet. Now here's a photo from about 1:30 pm...


BLIZZARD!!!! It was snowing so thickly and the wind was blowing so hard... Anyway, a pretty stressful and daunting drive.



People were having wrecks... Eventually they closed I-70. Below is what all the cars looked like. Some had more impressive icicle growths than others.


This is outside our hotel.

And this is our minivan rental. You can see where the snow plow went by and sprayed us. :) Catie said, "Hey! My window's dirty!"


The balcony of our hotel room. Don't think we'll be sitting out there to enjoy the evening...


The blizzard on the news.



Our minivan in the parking lot at dusk (far right). I'm wondering how covered it will be by morning...

Now I know why parents try to embarrass their teenagers...

It's because when those teenagers were 2 years old, they terribly embarrassed their parents.

Take today for instance. Through a series of unfortunate events, my spring break babysitter had to cancel and I had no choice but to take Catie to work with me. The morning actually went really well; I took toys and the little DVD player to keep her entertained in my office. She played, colored, watched VeggieTales and was overall a good little kiddo.

No, the point of acute embarrassment came when Catie suddenly exclaimed, "I GOTTA GO POTTY!" Ok, not a problem, I do this all the time. We make our way down the hall to the ladies' restroom, which happens to be a single toilet type deal. It also happens to be a wonderful echo chamber. Catie figured this out within the first three seconds of being in there.

After a test "AHH! aaAAAhhh!" she burst into a full throated rendition of the VeggieTales theme song.

"IF YOU LIKE TO TALK TO TOMATOOOOOOES, IF A SQUASH CAN MAKE YOU SMIIIIIIIIIILE!..."

Oh, good grief... I somehow finally get her to pee in the potty while she's belting out her tune, and wash her hands just as she comes to the grand finale, "IT'S TIME FOR VEGGIE TAAAAAAAAALES!"

Catie exits the bathroom proudly, thoroughly enthused with her musical abilities. I exit hesitantly, hoping the architects somehow designed that bathroom to be sound proof. Not so. Every office we pass on our way back down that long hall holds an extremely amused secretary, who looks at me with twinkling eyes and then bursts out laughing.

Yeah, I'll get her back someday... :)

Treats

Whenever Catie successfully goes potty, she gets a sticker and a small treat. Her new favorite treats are Skittles, which she enthusiastically calls "Squiddles!"