It all started Thursday night - everything was cancelled/closed for Friday, including our daycare and work. Dargan did not understand the concept of "no work" or "sleeping in" so we were up at 5:30am per usual.
We made plans to hunker down at home, get a bit of work done, and possibly play in the snow. Most of what came down was ice - about an inch total.
Things got really interesting at about 10:30am on Friday when our power flickered and then went out! Yikes! Thankfully our fireplace is gas and can be lit with battery power, so we got that going right away. The house stayed comfortable throughout the day, and we set up camp in the living room in front of the fire.
Pretty much spent the day playing and napping (yes, all of us!).
In the evening, we had dinner with the neighbors (their gas stove was able to light without electricity) and then had some trouble sleeping at night due to the cooler temperatures.
Side Note: We had a really good night Thursday night, he only woke up once at 1:30!
Friday morning we woke up to about 5-6" of snow that had fallen overnight, which made a beautiful white winter scene outside. Without power still, we didn't want to venture out to play without a warm house to come back to, so we stayed in and admired the beauty from the house.
I also was worried about my milk stash - both refrigerated and frozen. Google told me that a freezer can hold its temperature for ~48 hours without power, so we were ok so far, but Duke Energy estimated our power wouldn't be back until 3pm on Sunday (about 53 hours from first outage). The refrigerator was rapidly warming to room temperature by this point, so we packed everything into a cooler and set it outside on the back porch. Turned out to be a good opportunity to thoroughly clean the fridge!
Then, miraculously at 11am the heat hummed and all the lights came on! HOOORAY!!! We took the next opportunity to go out in the snow for a few minutes. Dargan was largely unimpressed.
In other news, Dargan is getting the hang of feeding himself and mastering the pincer grab for smaller foods (Cheerios, puffs, Goldfish crackers).
He's supposed to be 100% on "table foods" now, so we're trying to give him bits of whatever we're eating (within reason). He loves banana slices and yogurt, but everything else is pretty hit-or-miss. He'll eat a bit of most things and then make faces when we try to give him more. They're feeding him table foods at daycare, too, so it's always interesting to get the report of all the things he tried during the day. Interesting adventure for sure!
Other Milestones:
Still just sitting, no crawling yet here. He can stand ok if we set him up, but he isn't pulling himself up at all. He still hates tummy time after a few minutes, and we have yet to witness any rolling over. We know he can, but have just never seen it happen (only the end result a couple of times).
Napping is another big challenge, but we've made great progress. He'll usually take two 1-2hr naps (~9am and ~noonish) and then maybe a third shorter nap late afternoon. He will still usually nurse to sleep for naps, but that's really just because of how the timing works out more than anything else.
Sleep at night is getting better. He's still good at putting himself to bed - we put him in the crib awake and he'll usually only fuss <5 mins, if any, and then will play with his hands for awhile before drifting off. Night wake-ups are still all over the map, but I think we're getting better.
