Rob & Julie Snow Family Blog

I was reading a post over at the Bad Astronomy Blog where Phil mentioned that some pretty cool developments have occurred in the area of dark matter and energy.  He referenced a very good article on the new developments at the CosmicVariance site.  It is pretty compelling and well explained. 

Julie and I were discussing how interesting it is to watch kids begin to learn fear.  Up until a few weeks ago Nate wasn't afraid of anything.  Now every once in a while something will freak him out for no reason that we can see. 

The other day Nate was playing with some toys that his great grandma gave him.  One is like a sink with a dishwasher and the sink had a spray hose.  So he was playing and having a great time when I decided to pull out the spray hose.  For some reason this just freaked him out like crazy!  So I picked him up and put the spray hose down.  I wanted to see if that was really what was going on so I pulled out the spray house again and he started to freak out once again!

Nate is also practically fearless when it comes to climbing things.  It has been so interesting to watch him learn that things can hurt him and that he needs to be careful. 

I was going through some photographs and found this AWESOME picture of Rob at his Junior Prom in 1997. It's such a great picture and I just laughed. So I thought I'd post a comparison picture of me at the same age (17). Do we look like we belong together? Even back then?