March is here and boy did it snow! About 7 inches here in Brooklyn. This morning was 15 degrees, with a wind chill of -1. That's right: NEGATIVE one. Luckily for us, the nearby Botanic garden has a greenhouse conservatory in which it is 1) warm and 2) many flowers are blooming and 3) it's green all around. It will take several more weeks before the rest of Brooklyn looks similarly.
We are celebrating Evi's 5-month birthday today (March 3) by staying warm at home, and by adding some new pictures and videos to our rapidly growing media trove that documents her life so far.
To match the newness of the month, Evi has learned a new sound--the "burble" which can be seen and heard at the flickr site (click here). It's very cute and often follows bursts of laughter. We were finally able to capture the baby really laughing on video, but the file size is too big to upload to flickr right now, so I am going to take some time and try to edit it down. Basically, Katie is clucking like a chicken and Evi laughs and/or squeals approvingly. Although she's been laughing for about a month, it's been difficult to capture her laughter on video for two reasons: 1) only in the last week has it gotten really easy to get her to laugh and 2) she often gets distracted by the camera and/or person holding the camera and stops laughing. Luckily (or is that "cluckily?"), Katie's chicken impression is so rivetingly hilarious that I could safely film the whole exchange.
So, that's about all for now. Except that Major League Baseball is in full swing Spring Training (pun intended) and the exhibition games are being broadcast in the sports bars around the city, so Dan is thrilled. We'll try to get to a ballgame in the new Yankees and Mets stadiums (or is it stadia?) before we leave NYC (whose date, by the way, is still TBA).
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