Snow

As soon as Selena looked out the window this morning she announced a snow day, NO SCHOOL! Of course I knew we would be bundle up for some fun snow time. Though we did not have very much snow Selena did enjoy making snow angels and trying to make snow balls.

It always amazes me how happy and at home Selena seems in the world around her. She is truly going to be an out in the nature type girl. (Yes, she is in her Pajamas, every year I think I should buy snow clothes, but on the average this is as much snow as we will see for the season, so it truly would be a waste of money.) Once back in the house and out of a nice warm bath, we had lunch and settled down for some quiet cuddle time.

Even with her hair in pony tails, she still almost sits on it. I just can’t believe how long her hair is getting. She still refuses to let us cut it. I sometimes wonder if she ever will have it short. I do however believe we will keep her hair about this length, when she gets older and wants to take care of it herself, she can let it grow longer then. Right now though since I have to help wash, and brush it, this is about as long as I want it to be. Even at this length it takes us nearly a half hour just to brush it out every morning. While she does complain about the length of time it takes to brush it out, and the pulling from so many tangles, she still refuses to have it cut.

Snow

Monday night just after I finished wrapping up all our Christmas, I turned around to discover it was snowing. I knew that come morning I would have one pretty excited little girl. Sure enough I was woke up to a tap on my shoulder, as one eye opened Selena exclaimed, “Snow!”

Even though she is still struggling with her tonsils I knew I had to dress her up and take her out for some fun in the snow. While she wasn’t her normal bubbly self, she had fun walking around packing a snowball.

I got a kick out of the fact that she made the discovery that our tree, which had been blown over and growing on the ground had finally been taken out. Her comment was, “Our tree, it’s gone, it will never grow another pretty leaf again.”

She didn’t want to stay out for very long before she was ready to come in take a warm bath and enjoy a cup of hot chocolate.

Snowed In!

Yes, we are snowed in today. We could probably get out if we really needed to, but getting back in might be quite the challenge. We woke this morning to discover the following.

And if this wasn’t enough to find all this snow, the winds were blowing as well. The following was taken just as a gust of wind kicked up.

Now at almost 11:00 a.m. it is still snowing and blowing. The snow is adding up and drifting.

To give you a little better idea of how much snow we have, which I know some will laugh at since they can see much more snow then this, but believe me for around here we are breaking records. Pal can hardly get through the snow.

Again this shows how much the snow is blowing and drifting. This was taken early in the morning. Now, Pal won’t even attempt to go out in the snow, and stays on the porch, under my car, or under the shrubs where there is little snow.

I loved comparing this snow to the first snow we got on Monday.

This is the same shrubs right off our porch. I don’t think I need to tell you which one is from Monday and which one was taken yesterday.

Enough With The Snow

As we are bracing for more snow, Selena and I got out and went to town today while we could still get out of our driveway, well, more like get back in our driveway. Going down is nothing, slide all the way down! Coming back up now that is the fun part! We got many supplies to ensure we could survive whatever the next couple storms throw at us.

Leah, I would most graciously send all this snow over to your side of the mountains. You can have it all, if only I could figure out a way to do so.

Phyllis, I know you are feeling a tad bit envious of our snow, believe me if I could share I would. Even if I could package it up and send it to you for one of your lovely State study packages, but I believe by the time it gets to you it would probably be a melted mess.

Ticia, you made a good point about children getting tired of snow too. Although right now it seems as though Selena is still praising the snow gods, or is it snow devils? Us adults however are trying to figure out how we can hook up all the generators in the area and create the largest radiated heat source we can to dry all these storm systems out before they get here.

The hard reality of all of this is that while the snow is so beautiful, and we have had a lot of fun playing in it. We all know once the thaw begins and the snows turn to rains, we will be dealing with the dreaded flooding.

In the meantime we are trying to have a light heart and spirit and take it however it comes. I leave you with what is probably my two most favorite pictures of the wintery blast we have had.

Snow Day Part 2

After Selena and Papa ate their breakfast and their clothing dried out, the three of them headed back out for some more snowy fun. It was fun to watch Papa and Selena having so much fun.

They walked all over the yard to see how deep the snow was in different areas. Selena told me when she came in she loved the snow but she didn’t like how her feet kept sinking down in it. She hoped Papa would find her a board to stand on, then her feet wouldn’t sink.

Pal had a blast with them, even though some parts of the walk he was dragging his belly the entire way. When they came back in Pal actually had a snowball attached to his tag on his collar that was about the size of a golf ball. By the time I could reach to grab my camera Papa had already cleared the snowball off his collar.

After coming in and having lunch and giving time for their clothes to dry out yet again, with assistance from my dryer. Papa invited Selena to go for a nice walk up the road with him. As I watched them return up the driveway, I let Pal out so he could meet them at the end of the driveway.

By this time the neighbor boy was out building a snowman so Selena made a bee line over to help him with that project.

He had fun playing with her for a while, having snowball fights, and just generally letting Selena have a blast. After he went in, Selena, Papa and another neighbor laughed, and made snowballs. Selena brought one up to the window and asked me for a bowl to put her snow ball in. You know I did just that. I no more got it sat down and she came with another one. The two put together looked just like a mini snowman. Pretty soon she came with another one that almost looked like the shape of a dog. While they were outside, I went to work decorating the snowballs she brought in. While I was doing this the neighbor fellow they were visiting with, was making a miniature snowman using toothpicks for its arms. When Selena brought that to show me, I had a huge surprise for her.

I guess you know that Selena was pretty pleased with her surprise and added the little snowman the neighbor had made for her. By this time though, Selena announced she had enough snow, well until tomorrow when we are expected to have more snow. We still have a couple more storms heading our way. They only predicted 1 inch for Sunday, we had 5 inches. They are predicting 4 more inches on Tuesday. We may just be snowed in before it is over.

Snow Day

We woke up Sunday morning to almost 5 inches of snow. I had been up for a good part of the night and enjoyed the peacefulness of watching it fall. Not that I wouldn’t have rather been asleep, but once I woke and discovered it snowing I was not able to go back to sleep. Selena cracked me up when she first woke up and looked out the window, “SNOW!” I asked her how it got there? She said, “Probably from the snowflakes!”

Pal was the first one to venture out into the snow. He was really enjoying himself out there. It was fun to watch him. In the meantime inside the house Papa was getting ready to go out and clear the snow off the vehicles, so I hurried up and got Selena ready to go out too.

Both her and Papa were out for about an hour and a half before I called them in for a hot bowl of cream of wheat. Of course you know once all the toes and fingers were warmed back up it was time for more outside fun.

Enjoy some of the random pictures of all the joy and beauty that we found as we enjoyed our snow. Wonder how much more we will get, they certainly did not predict this amount in the first round of the storm.

I am sure we will be back out enjoying more of this winter wonderland. Papa and Selena tried to build a snowman but the snow was too dry to pack very well for that, boy I don’t know that I have ever seen such dry fluffy snow here. It is sure beautiful though!

Winter Fun

We had to take advantage of all the snow we received. While I cleared the snow off the car Selena and Pal ran around the front yard. Selena enjoyed how easily the snow packed together to form snow balls, and just in general explored every aspect of the snow. When I finished clearing the car, I turned to have some fun too.

Selena wanted to make snow angels, so she laid in the snow, and got the arms moving up and down like wings while her legs moved more like she was trying to ride a bike. I had to reach down and show her how to move her legs in rhythm with her arms. I took her a few tries but she finally got it put together. Then she was off to not only make snow angels all over our front yard but in the neighbor’s front yard too.

She decided to initiate a snow ball fight with me. She laughed and giggled as she chased me around throwing her little snow balls at me. She hit me several times and even got sneaky about it catching me off guard a few times. I was throwing them back at her and she just thought it was hilarious when they hit her. I was surprised a couple of them that I threw hit her in the face, but she didn’t mind one bit as she spit the snow out and I went over to help her clear the snow off her face, there I would find a smile from ear to ear.

All of this went on for about an hour before the winds started blowing and boy brother were they cold winds. I said it was time to go into the house, and Selena took off running only to forget that the neighbor fenced his back yard, she was trapped and couldn’t go anywhere. With a little persuasion she came in and we warmed up after getting out of our wet clothes.

Our First Snow

  

While Selena tried to tell me that if it snowed the snow would make her cold go away and she would be better, that wasn’t quite the way it worked. I couldn’t resist in bundling her up though and taking her out for some snow time fun. We don’t get snow over here a lot so when we do it is quite the event. This is truly the first time Selena will remember playing in the snow, the first official time she was only 1 yrs old, and didn’t do anything but sit in a snow pile. She didn’t quite know what to do. I showed her how to make snow balls and we tossed them back and forth for a bit.

Then what would snow be without building a snowman? Of course our snow man didn’t turn out to be the best, due to the snow. It is warming up a bit now so it wasn’t the best snow to make a snowman out of it. Selena was still just as proud of him as any we could have made.

We had a lot of fun in the snow, though it was a short time. If she wouldn’t have been sick we would have spent longer out there truly exploring the snow. Selena will always remember this first snow and the little bit of fun we had in it.