We had a snow day today. School was canceled and the base had delayed reporting, meaning most people didn't need to show up til 10am. I was very happy for many reasons. First of all it was our first snow of the season - first in Illinois for us. Second I had a bunch of things to do today that I didn't really want to do, especially out in the snow. And they all canceled because of the canceled school and delayed reporting at the base. Hooray! And Scott got to have breakfast with us. He has to get to work pretty early on regular days, so it was nice he could have pancakes with us.
He even shoveled some snow...carefully
Anna wanted to play outside starting at 8am. So here she is out there with her snow angel. Our house and yard here in Illinois is a lot smaller than our Colorado house, but its not all bad. It's easier to keep a smaller house clean and decluttered (not that mine is clean, just cleaner). And since the yard is small and flat I don't feel too bad letting the kids go out there and play with only minimal supervision. Our CO house had places people could fall and get hurt. There's pretty much nothing in our yard and its super small, which I usually don't like, but today it worked.
This is Matthew with his snow hill, which he was very proud of, and you can't see in this picture.
It was in the 20s so people went out in shortish spurts and then came in to get warm. Matthew and I got into some Harry Potter activities. I can't remember how that started, but here is Matthew striking a magical pose. He's using a wand we got at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando.
Anna asked if we could build a snowman together - just the two of us ("Do you want to build a snowman!" Have you seen Frozen yet? See it!) I felt bad 'cause I feel like I don't go do stuff like that enough with the kids because of the little guys. And just as we were going to go out both little guys woke up from their naps and starting crying and needing me to do things for them. I put on a cartoon, got them some milk and told Matthew to come get me if there were any problems (he was inside watching the show with them) and Anna and I went out for a little while to build our snowman. Our neighborhood is new and has no mature trees, so Anna ran all the way across the common space to get a stick off one of the few young trees. You can sort of see her footprints going far away.
Now our snowman has arms. The snow was very dry and powdery. I'm not a snow expert but I was hoping it was only in Colorado where it is IMPOSSIBLE to make a snowball 'cause the snow is so dry that it won't stick together.
This snow was very dry also so we had to get water from the house to get the snow to stay together in a ball. Even with that our snowman wasn't that big. Anna wanted him to have a carrot nose, but we had no carrots. We went through the fridge and came up with radishes and a orange slice for a face. No nose. Anna also contributed an extra hat and gloves...and of course the arms.
Maybe we'll have wetter snow later in the season?
Awww, she's a cute little snowman. She's a female by the way. Just ask Anna. Anna kept saying this snowman was made with girl power. So we made our snowman...then I went back into the house to take care of the little guys.
This one was having a hard time. He was fussing so much and later started running a temperature. So he wasn't feeling great. I should have known when he was crying so much and making this face that something was amiss. Poor Johnny.
Grant wanted to go out all day, but he would never agree to get dressed so he had to stay in. Finally he agreed to letting me put clothes on him so he could go out. I accidentally left his coat in my car and Scott took it to work today, so he had to make due with a smaller coat. It almost fit. I got him little waterproof mittens this year so he could play in the snow without freezing his hands, but it was so hard to get his little thumb to go the right place in those mittens. We eventually got it. Also notice the shortish snow pants and pink snow boots. I was just throwing together the closest sized snow gear I could find for everyone. It worked. And Grant had a great time in the snow.
They finally came in when it started to get dark. It was a good snow day.
We'll see how long our little snowman survives.
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