Our snow

All of it. That is, all we've gotten so far this year, although it has cooled off this week and been threatening to snow. (Picture was taken in October.) I woke up to very joyous cries of, "Mommy, there's snow on my house! Need to play in it. Need to build a snowman." So after breakfast we got ready. Yes, my children were dressed in all their snow gear for a skiff of snow. They insisted on it. They were so excited to play in snow and a complete snow outfit was necessary. We went outside for, thankfully, a very short amount of time. Once in the snow the girls discovered it wasn't nearly so fun as expected and there definitely wasn't enough to build a snowman (Ruby tried). Once the snow soaked through their gloves they were ready to be done.

Funny story: in September I was sorting through the girls' clothes to get out all their winter stuff. I had them trying on lots of things to see what fit now. Amongst the usual long sleeved shirts and long pants I had several different sizes of coats and snowpants for them to try. (I buy at yard sales, so I get what I can when I see it.) Ruby tried on some snowpants and a coat, then wanted boots, a hat, and some gloves. We tried on the whole outfit. Then she said, "Go play in snow." Oops. Sorry, dear, there's no snow yet. She was mad. It was like I had tricked her, albeit unintentionally. I finally got her to accept the idea that the leaves had to fall before the snow would come. After this she would randomly tell people, "The leaves come down then the snow comes down."