01.16.09

New York City Snow

Posted in Baby, Family, New York Life at 2:50 pm by rachel

Despite the long, cold days when we never leave the apartment, winter can be a fun time to be a baby in New York. Last weekend we went on a lovely walk around the neighborhood. It was snowing in that quiet, almost warm way, when there’s no wind and you don’t even notice the snow piling up on your hat/bag/stroller/baby, and a calm throughout even the busiest of streets (Fifth avenue) makes Saturday shopping for a new coat a pleasure (if only the prices were dropping as much.)

Experiencing the snow first-hand, for the first time.

(We eventually did cover the babe with a rain cover.)

Happy the Washington Square tree was still up. Who needs Rockefeller Center?

On Sunday we decided to check out the commute on the Hudson Line, once again.

Leaving Grand Central…

We checked out this house, only imagine it without all that greenery, and instead a lot of snow and bare trees:

It was nice to get out of the city, and fun as always to see friends Jonathan and Amanda, too.

For Jax’s 16-week birthday, we got bundled up and went all of 1 building over to go to our new favorite sushi restaurant, where the servers now know us by name (well, the cutest, youngest one of us at least). What we love about our neighborhood is that even when it’s 20 degrees and cabin fever sets in, we’re never far from human interaction and a place where someone else will make us food.
{By the way, the 3-roll spicy combo for 10 bucks is really awesome.}

The snow all melted but then came back again on Thursday, when we woke up to this:

It was our last full day home before I went back to teaching. We mostly read books, snuggled, and just did a lot of this:

and found that *a clever someone* is going to have to be fastened in to the bouncy seat from now on:

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