Emma and Maggie had some fun playing “Mt .Everest” on a giant pile of snow left from our street getting plowed. The also spent some time slogging through the knee-high-to-them snow on our back porch.

Stella took time to hydrate with a snowy snack. She’s a smarty.

We took the kids and some sleds out to Cheswick Park to see if we could get a good sliding spot. We had some laughs, for sure, but mostly we guaranteed that we would spend the rest of the day inside.

Here’s Emma at the turn of her 100yd backstroke from this morning’s meet (cool capture via Quadcamera). This was her first wintertime swim team season and she made a lot of progress from October until now. There is still room to improve but she’s a strong, confident swimmer and we think she’s set up for some really fast swimming over the summer and next winter. It really helps that she has a couple of her close friends on the team. They make it a lot easier to commit the time.

She’s pretty great. This photo also doubled as my Whiskerino photo and there were plenty of well-wishes from the guys.

Emma and I caught a fun brunch-for-two at Can Can to celebrate the last day of Winter Break. Her mom and and her sister didn’t want to brave the cold so they missed out on the wonderful beignets.

Nothing really happened in 2009. That’s why there aren’t any pictures of the girls from the whole year.

Here’s to seeing more of them in 2010.

She’s make a brief appearance at the 1:06 mark on this segment on Walk to School Day.

Emma took it with her Polaroid.

I had today off so I kept Emma home and we went and did some hiking/exploring at Belle Isle. The river was super low so we were able to clamber out into the middle of it all on some rocks. Good times.

Yesterday, we took in an afternoon matinée of the new Hannah Montana movie. Emma and Stella both love that show, and I will admit to you that I have enjoyed it with them on many, many occasions. It’s pretty funny.

Since it was 3-D, there were glasses to be had. Sorry my phone did such a lousy job in the low light of the theater, but you get the idea.