Weekend fun! We went to Longwood Gardens and did a lot of walking, played in the Children's Garden and looked for snow to throw at each other. Ellie found a cat (tiny video) and followed it around for a while. Later we helped John and Brenda pick out a beautiful Christmas tree and had some great stew and a cozy evening!

On Sunday we drove around looking for the perfect neighborhood on the R6 line that would simplify Mike's commute and didn't find it. Then we went to Swarthmore to see a great gamelan concert. Ben sat through the whole thing and really liked the drums and dancers! Ellie had to excuse herself in between songs during the 'quiet' times, but she really liked clapping and dancing to the music! Afterwards all the kids got to go onstage to see the instruments up close. Now time to get ready for Christmas!

SNOW! SNOW!

Today we had our first snow. Not much, but enough to cover the cars and make a few snowballs. It was a really pretty snowfall with big flakes and it was dry enough that they didn't turn to mush right away.

Here's some video of Ellie struggling to walk in her big snowsuit. She's a good sport. While I was photographing this Ben put a snowball on my head and at the end he put one on Ellie's too (just out of the frame). What a fun time today!