SNOW much fun... or not????

When we had our first good snow of the winter I could not wait to take Owen sledding. He is such a dare-devel, I thought he would love sledding. Not so much!!!!! I went out and bought his a snow suit and boots. We went to the hill at the church near our house. Owen was super excited watching the kids come down the hill. It did not cross my mind that I was going to have to carry the sled and him up the hill. I guess 7 inches of snow is a bit much to expect a 2 year old to be able to walk through! We finally made it up the hill, and he had a great time sledding down. I then lugged him and the sled back up the hill again. On our second sledding attempt, my boot hit the snow, which then caused the snow to fly up in our faces and Oven was DONE!!! I mean meltdown screaming kind of done. He tried to wipe the snow out of his eyes, which got snow from his mitten on his face and the meltdown got worse!! Needless to say we spent more time getting bundled up than actually sledding that day. After taking time to bundle up Owen I now realize why my mom would always gripe when we would come inside after 5 minutes in the snow and say we were done playing or we had to pee. It is a lot of work to get kids bundled up!
All excited to go sledding for the first time!
I'm DONE! Take me home!


We took him out in the snow a couple weeks later, and it went a little better. He still would not go anywhere near the sled. He spent some time standing in the driveway throwing snow. Jeff was throwing snowballs at me so Owen was trying to copy him.





The last time I took Owen in the snow was a day it was pretty warm and the snow was melting. We only had a few inches left on the ground, so Owen was willing to walk into the yard. I wanted Owen to be able to make a snowman before winter was over. Once we got all bundled up I realized that I did not plan what we were going to decorate the snowman with. We found a carrot for his nose, and used M&M's for the rest of his face. After a few minutes the coloring from the M&M's started coming off and he was one weird looking snowman! Owen thought it was fun to put the M&M's on his face, so he eventually had M&M's everywhere!


Owen got a bit crazy with the M&M's!