First Snowboarding Weekend

We took Hana to Tahoe this weekend to break in the new house and get a little taste of the snow. We arrived in the late afternoon on Friday to piles and piles of snow, with more coming down!! None of us slept well the first night, as Hana was getting used to the new environment and waking up a lot. At least that's what I thought all the crying was about. Then on Saturday morning, she fell backwards while sitting, which she does quite often, but this time she was crying quite a bit, which is unusual. Then Pete noticed her mouth was a little bloody so we figured she had bitten her tongue. We let her suck on an ice cube (the Tahoe house has an ice maker that makes perfect-sized cubes that we can hold up to her mouth - yay!) and that seemed to make it better. Later I saw she was bleeding again so I looked in her mouth and was shocked to see that her two front top teeth were coming in! Her poor little gums were all swollen and the teeth were just barely slivers of rice. I could have sworn she was going to get two more bottoms before the tops, as they seem to be sitting right at the surface. Guess I was wrong. So that night we gave her some motrin before bed and her sleep was a little better.

On Saturday she played in the snow a bit (see purple snowsuit pictures). She really wasn't too sure what to make of it. I wouldn't say she was terribly excited about it, but her enthusiasm may have been dampened by the teething pain. I think snow is something she will learn to love when she sees everything she can do with it.

On Sunday we spent the day at Squaw Valley. Pete went snowboarding and Hana and I holed up at the Terrace restaurant. Hana made friends with some other kids there - Marissa, a cute 15-month-old from San Ramon, and Henry from England, who was about 3 and let Hana play with his trains. We ended the day with frozen lasagna, salad, and Oreos and a roaring fire in the wood stove and drove home on Monday morning. Pete dropped me off at the BART, and I went straight to work (yuck). Hana and Pete spent the day unloading the car and recovering from the long drive.