Snow Bunny

Tuesday night into Wednesday morning we got about 4 inches of really light, fluffy snow (must have been since it was stinkin' cold). So anyway, while Carson was in his swing doing this ...

I decided to bundle Dayton up and take him outside. It's almost not worth the time it takes me to get him bundled up enough to go out in 20 degree weather. First, its the snow pants as he's squirming around whining "boots, boots". Then, he forgets about his boots for a minute and switches gears to "gloves". So we fight to get the dinky little mittens on his little hands. At this point, he's back to "boots, boots" but at least this time we're ready to put them on him. So once we get them on the right feet, I can start to fight to get the pants over the boots (someone didn't think that through when designing the pants). And now for the hat ... that's the easiest part! And last but not least the coat ... would be easy if it weren't for two things ... 1) trying to get his hands through the end of the sleeves and 2) getting him to look up long enough to get it zippered all the way to the top.

At this point, I'm thinking Carson is going to be waking up any minute now and all that work was for nothing. Fortunately, we made it outside.



Dayton had a ball. He loves it outside so much (even when it is 20 degrees)! This was the first time, however, that he actually enjoyed the snow. Since it was so light, he didn't have a problem walking through it. The only issue was the only mittens that I can get on his hands are just knit so his little hands get so cold. It obviously bothers him much less than it bothers me because he cried and cried when I made him come inside. As the garage door was closing, he stopped crying long enough to wave and say "bye, bye snow"!