Connor really enjoyed the snow. He has some snow pants he'd gotten handed down, and we'd bought him boots when we went to get our Christmas Tree over Thanksgiving Weekend. Heran all over the backyard, all along the trail he's created at the border of the fence, and just sat in snow, watching it fall. This kid really relishes the outdoors. He loves to be totally immersed - it's an all-senses experience. Sights, sounds, taste (he eats a lot of snow), and even the sense of his body getting colder or warmer. He stayed out for an hour or more at a time. He'd only come in when he got too wet and cold. Then we'd dry his gear for the next time out.
Diana, on the other hand, was happy for the snow day more for her homework. She procrastinated on learning her Anatomy/Physiology terms, and the snow day allowed her extra time to write & re-write all those out until they stuck in her brain. Between her 3 sessions of doing that, she had her paper route, and she built a snow fox (Connor thinks it's a snow cat).
Trevor is conspicuously absent because he's not really a "snow" person. He spent most of the day next to the gas stove in the living room. In German, we call it "Hocken." Kind of like hovering around something - only even more so.
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sigh...it looks so picturesque! I wish we had just a little so the kids could see it! Today we got up and at 8am went to get donuts and it was 31 degrees! If there would have been any rain or moisture we would have seen something at least! Frost on the grass....something, but it was too dry. Oh well.
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