Tuesday 7 December 2010

Baby Leo arrives and the cold weather stays

The freezing weather continues. We have been okay-ish down here. We had snow last Wednesday, but no more than a few inches, unlike the rest of the country who could measure the snow in feet. It has been bitterly, bone chillingly cold all over the country and we've had freezing fog and very harsh frosts here in Malvern. We've been so lucky! We've got Christmas Card perfect scenes of trees covered in thick frost and Scotland has motorways closed and people forced to sleep in their cars as they've become stuck.

In the middle of all this horrible weather my sister and her hubby have welcomed their new baby. In the middle of a snow storm in Edinburgh and after 3 days in labour in hospital baby Leo arrived. He's a whopping 9lbs and 14oz as he was 2 weeks overdue - we figure he didn't fancy coming out when it was so cold! He looks utterly gorgeous in the photos. We're hoping to see him this weekend along with Stephen's family, but that rather does depend on it not snowing and the motorways being open. Fingers crossed!