Dreamin of a White Christmas

In our neck of the woods we usually have a good amount of snow on the ground by now.  This season is off to a slow start.  Last winter was a complete dud bringing us no snow to play on.  We really didn't know how to play in the cold without fluffy white stuff all over the place.  Last year it took us all winter to escape the depression from lack of snow and think of something to do in the bitter cold.

This last week we had out first real winter storm that deposited a couple of inches and Ky insisted of heading out to take advantage of it.

We bundled Ky up in his Esh bunting and let him have at it.  This bunting is really cool!  It is made of windstopper fleece, and you don't know it but the only thing he has on underneath it is his diaper.  He was content playing in the snow for a couple of hours sitting, rolling, and kneeling in it.  Not once did he get cold and when we took it off it was completely dry inside!

Ky's favorite thing to do with snow is just like all other 2-year-olds who live in snowy country.  EAT IT!!!!  We generally have to channel his eating habit to stay with the quality stuff, though sometimes he sneaks in the not so clean stuff.

The other night he found his stroller and begged us on his knees to go for a ride.  Being babywearing educators you can imagine that we really don't use the stroller very often so to go for a ride in it is quite a special treat.  Again he got put into his Esh bunting, bundled up in a blanket, with a heated rice bag for him to cuddle with.  The temps that night were easily in the single digits with the small breeze.  We took one trip around the block thinking he would be done and cold afterwards only to have to peel him out of the stroller after four more rounds!

With our current lack of snow we had to improvise our snowman before Christmas.  We hope that while we are gone celebrating the holidays our home will thoroughly be coated in fluffy white goodness so that we may make a real live snowman.  We look forward to heading out to some nordic trails and getting out in the backcountry this winter.  

Merry Christmas!

From: The Kings