Saturday, February 28, 2015

snow!


I was home for 12 full weeks in the dead of winter.  When I found out I was pregnant with Addy and that my due date was in November, I was thrilled to be able to be off and at home, cozy in front of my fire not having to stress about making it into work in the middle of a snow storm [see here and here].  The weeks ticked by, and nary a flake did we see.  Until the day I went back to work.  Literally.  The exact day.  Thankfully, the snow held off until my drive home, but I chugged along saying "I think I can, I think I can" all the way down I40 in the freezing rain and sleet.  I was off the next day (Tuesday) and we woke up to a considerable amount of ice.  It was enough for the boys to sled down the street and me and Addy to cozy up and watch out the window, and enough of a mess on the roads for me to say thank you Jesus that I'm off today.
the boys...ice sledding!
The next week, it happened again.  I worked on Monday, and Monday night we got a little bit of snow.  I was off of work Tuesday, and went back to work on Wednesday.  Wednesday, I headed to work again and sure enough, Wednesday night it snowed again!  Big snow this time. We woke up Thursday morning to a winter wonderland, 8ish inches of wet wet snow, and again, thankfully, I was off of work.  I didn't have to return to work until Saturday, so to say that the schedule of our winter weather was perfect would be an under statement.  I think the Big Man upstairs knew that last year I paid my dues sleeping at the hospital, this year I needed to be home with my babies.

We played outside in the snow and over the course of that week two of Lucas's winter dreams this year came true.  All he wanted to do the first time was make a snow angel.  The previous week when it just iced, the poor boy couldn't understand why he couldn't get his snow angel to work when he layed down in the sleet pellets.  Try explaining ice vs. snow when a snow angel is on the line to a toddler.  It's tough.  So thankfully, the next week we got some real snow and he made his snow angel!  When the big snow came, he wanted to build a snowman.  And we did just that!  At first we rigged our accessories with legos.  Lucas was very concerned that we didn't have a "corn pipe" (a corn cob pipe like from the Frosty song). That afternoon, a sweet neighbor gave us a snowman kit (with all kinds of pieces like a Mr. Potatohead kit) to Lucas because her son was grown.  It was so sweet! So we gave our snowman a makeover.  We also took a walk around the neighborhood and found some sledding hills.  I don't think there is much that's cuter than kids in their little snow suits with rosy cheeks and runny noses.  We played hard.  Lucas will tell you that his favorite part of the snow was not the snowman or the snow angel or sledding...it was eating the snow.  Bless his heart.



Lucas wanted Addy to make a snow angel.  You can see she was less than thrilled.
Eating snow!  Poor kid almost got frost bite around his mouth from all of the snow he ate.  And not to mention the number of times he needed to go to the bathroom. That's one way to stay hydrated!










    





We had a great time in the snow and I'm SO thankful I didn't have to go to work in it!  Now that we got our big snow out of the way, let's do spring time, okay?  


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