Snow Day 2015

As expected winter wasn't actually over when it was eighty degrees last weekend. The snow returned a little bit yesterday, but spared us for the most part, so Ro's party could go off uninterrupted, if still very cold. This morning we woke up to a beautiful white yard. It wasn't snowing and the schools were in session, so I was hoping that was the end of it. We bundled up and headed to the gym after Zach reported the roads to the west were fine. The roads a mile to the east however were not fine and after fish tailing and almost getting stuck on a tiny hill, we carefully turned around and headed home. We were in for another snow day. It turned into a gorgeous, heavy, huge snow flake snow that was just lovely since I had no where to be.

After nap time, when Zane was starting to want to watch TV, the snow began to pick up and it was time to head out to play. My goal for playing in the snow is always that we play longer than it takes us to get ready. That might not have ever happened until today. Everyone had great gloves that were water proof, which I think was the key. Rowan wore the mittens that the whole back opens up and then velcros shut. These were easy to put back on the numerous times they fell off, "mamma, my grub." I think they are kind of like these which are waterproof and you don't have to fight to get little kids thumb in the thumb place or god forbid you have actual gloves, ugh! I digress, we got bundled and made it outside at the height of the snowing, which made for some great fun and adorable pictures.

Classic snow day shot. The Spiderman mask was a huge help as well since since was 100% in the snow.

Rowan, who has been wearing his little blue snow boots in seventy degree weather for a week, managed to loose them and had to wear his rain boots, much to his dismay. Ro's little legs struggled to get around in the snow, but he got the hang of it and had a great time. Of course Zane jumped, literally, right and rolled around. The snow was dry and flaky, not good for snowmen or snow bowls, so we made snow angels, threw it in the air, made fun tracks with our feet, and of course filled all the bird feeders in the front for our feathered friends.

 

 

 Rowan's very first snow angel, so adorable.

Zane made a snow angel, perfectly inside my snow angel, which I thought was pretty awesome.

After I shoveled the driveway we headed in, with three bowls of snow to taste and experiment with. There were lots of conversations about who snow is made, "What is snow mamma?" So we might have managed to learn something in the process. Rowan, who hates ice cream, loved his bowl of snow, finishing the whole thing. Zane left his snow on the table to see what would happen to it inside. SPOILER ALERT: it melted!

Look closely the tree is covered in Gold Finches

At some point in every snow day you just have to build a fort and watch a movie. We reached that point late in the day after painting, drinking hot chocolate, watching the birds, reading lots of books, taking lots of rides in the new fire truck, and all sorts of other adventures, but we did get there. Rowan was having none of it so he and I continued to play hard , while Zane rested in his fort. Zach did make it home safely in his tiny Pruis, just in time for a bowl of soup. Perfect snow day!

 The five seconds Rowan was laying down for this picture was all the time he spent in the fort today. He had things to do!

 This guy hasn't gotten to watch any form of technology in three days, for various terrible reasons, so he ate up every second of movie in a fort time.

And at some point you start watching You Tube videos of dogs. That's what was happening before this picture. I've got some cute kids if I do say so myself!