Snow Day

Our neighborhood had a snow day where they bring in tons of ice and blow it out to resemble snow.  I'm sure people up north think we are crazy, but for people who never see snow this is very exciting!!!  When I was growing up our neighborhood also did this and I remember how fun it always was.

When we got there I was so surprised to see bounce houses and blow up slides, a carnival ride, food truck, and a DJ.  It was crazy!!  

Stephen wouldn't even get close to the snow and didn't care if I was touching it or walking on it, he wasn't getting near it. We walked around for a little bit and found a bounce house for younger kids and saw Hayden so they jumped together for awhile. Then Stephen saw the park across the field and wanted to go over there. WHAT? There is SNOW and you want to go to the park where we go all the time. I thought he may just be overwhelmed with all the people too because it was packed. So over to the park we went.





We had to leave the park to go get a diaper change and I was going to leave at that point because it was getting close to nap time and he hadn't eaten lunch yet.  But then Stephen started freaking out about going back to the snow.  I told him that he didn't like it and it was a LONG walk back.  He still wanted to go, so I told him if we went back he HAD to touch the snow.  He said he would, but I wasn't so sure.

When we got there, he walked right up to the edge of the snow and touched it and came back to me and told me he touched it.  It was so funny.  He was so proud.  This is the part he touched:



Then he realized it wasn't so bad and he did in fact want to play in it.



He started picking up the tiniest pieces and handing them to me.  At this point the "snow" was packed down pretty good form everyone walking on it so it was hard to form a snow ball.



I made him a few snow balls and he loved throwing them.





We saw a boy from his class and he had a popsicle and Stephen wanted one.  So I gave him one.  It was already nap time at this point and he was curling his hair, which he does when he's tired.



He loved the popsicle though!  I told him to look at me and smile and this is what he did:





We came home and bathed from the sticky popsicle, had lunch, and then Stephen took a long nap!

That afternoon we went to a park.  They are renovating a few parks in our neighborhood and I was sad about this one.  It was all wood and such a great size for Stephen.  We tried out the new park today and to my surprise it is a great park!!!  It is the perfect size for Stephen.





We had a fun snow day together!  I'm sure my friend Ki, who is from Michigan, thinks this is so funny!