Snow!! Snow!!

Well, Madilyn has officially been able to play in snow for the first time in her life! When she was a baby, I took her outside to let some snowflakes fall on her face, but she obviously didn't know what was going on. Last year, we didn't really get any good snow to play in. We just got that horrible ice storm. Sooo....it was an extra special treat to have a White Christmas this year!!! We drove up to Kansas City on Christmas Eve to be with my family, and we were fighting the clock to get there before a big winter storm rolled in. We got to town literally within 30 minutes of the roads getting too slick and covered up to drive on. What we woke up to on Christmas morning was beautiful, though! We didn't know what Madilyn would think of it, but she loved it! She wanted to pick up snow and throw it every time she saw any (didn't matter if it was dirty snow or not). Turns out, she's also one of those kids that doesn't quite recognize when she's too cold and needs to go inside...mommy & daddy had to intervene a few times before the child went numb! :-)

Notice how deep this snow is! Poor child could

barely move when she first went out there!

I would point out how precious this picture is of our sweet

little girl inspecting the snow, but you can see that on your own!

What I must point out is the "dad touch" of this photo...do you

notice anything that looks odd on Madilyn's legs? I sent her out

in jeans that have snaps that allow for easy diaper access.

That didn't work out so well, though, because they kept coming

undone and exposing her little legs. Rather than taking her

inside and completely undressing her, Scott decided to just use a

bit of duct tape from the garage to keep those pants closed so that

they could play longer! I have to admit, it did the trick!

Yet one more use of duct tape discovered!! :-)

An office complex not to far from my parents house has a

great hill for sledding, so we borrowed a couple of the neighbors

sleds one afternoon before we left. It doesn't look like there's

much snow left on this hill, but that's because it had been so

packed due to all the people who go sledding here. It is

really slick! When you see me hunched over, that's really

the position I had to walk in to try to get myself and Madilyn up

that slick slope...going down was much easier than coming up!

Bless her heart, I couldn't tell you why in the world Madilyn

looks like this! After seeing how hard it was to help her walk up

the hill, my sister decided to have her lay down on the sled as she

drug her up the hill. For whatever reason, Madilyn laid her arms

up in that "helpless" position every single time! Too funny!

Luckily, the roads cleared up for us to get home on Tuesday

after Christmas, but then we had another storm roll in for

New Years! Madilyn had already discovered how fun it was

to go sledding, so she was ready to go down the

hill in our back yard in a heartbeat!

How cute are these little snow bunnies?!

(Yes, that is my headband that Scott's wearing! He couldn't

find his hat and two-year-old's aren't known for being patient,

so he just grabbed what he could find!)

Happy Winter to All!!