We got our first snow day of the year. So far we have about 4.5-5 inches of snow on the ground. We get about one good snow a year and this is most likely IT.
It started Sunday afternoon and we had to go play in it while it was falling.
We stayed outside maybe a whole 5 minutes. It was very cold and windy.
Here is my attempt to take a snow picture at night with my tripod. It is always so bright at night when it's snowing. Doesn't quite look like night time at all.
This is probably the clearest picture to see how much snow we received.
A rare picture of me with the boys. I really do love the snow despite the messiness and inconvenience of it all.
Grant has never been a big fan of the snow though he handled it much better this year than last year.
I had to carry him about the last 10 minutes we were outside. Poor baby just doesn't like being cold.
He kept calling everything dirty. The tree was dirty and his shoes were getting dirty since they were covered in snow.
Miles loves running around in the snow.
He also liked finding mason's freshly raked leaf piles to jump on.
Both of the boys enjoyed seeing their footprints.
The one thing Miles wanted to do was make a big snowball and throw it. He kept asking us to show him how. We tried but it is a very dry snow and would not stick together. That also made our attempts at a snowman very difficult. We also are not the most skilled professionals at snowballing. We get snow maybe a couple times a year so we don't have much practice at it.
He wasn't quite so keen on being cold and wet this year. He tried one snow angel and decided that was not worth laying down in the snow for.
We don't have any waterproof gloves so when both boys tried to touch the snow their gloves would get wet and then hands get cold. That drove us inside both days. Here I come sporting goods store to find waterproof children's gloves/mittens.
(And have you ever tried to put gloves on a 2 year old? It's very difficult let me tell you.)
While it was snowing outside we have a few inside snow traditions. When the first snow flakes fall I usually place a bowl outside to catch some clean snow for snow cream. And of course we drink hot chocolate to warm up after being in the cold wet stuff. I usually bake some kind of cookies and we have a bowl of hot soup for dinner. Check out my food blog for some of those recipes.
The temperatures are not to break freezing until tomorrow afternoon so maybe we can play in it more before it disappears.
