Thanksgiving Snow

I was excited for the first snow. The excitement lasted a couple of hours. I think it stopped when it took Eric over two hours to get home when it normally takes him 15 minutes. But his commute was good compared to others that took 3-12 hours. Then we were stuck at home the next two days because the roads were icy and Eric took the family car to work. I wouldn't have wanted to drive in the ice anyway. Seattle doesn't get weather like this often, so we're not really set up for it. The schools close. People work from home or take days off. The cities practically shut down. But apparently banks need to be open so Eric had to go in to work.

We ran to the store before it got too snowy. When we got home Kaylin wanted to check out the snow.

Hmmmm... I'm not too sure about this.

I think I'll touch it.

Okay, I'll walk in it.

This is kind of fun! But I'm cold!

Also, please note this is one of the few times I can convince Kaylin to wear a coat.

The next day we got bundled to actually play in the snow.

Lauren wasn't a fan. She didn't even try to crawl.

We took a walk to our neighbor friends' house. Kaylin stopped part way there to build a "snowman" on the sidewalk.

Kaylin tasting the snow outside our friends' house.

The neighbor kids were out playing and asked Kaylin to play with them. She didn't want to play in the snow. She just wanted to go inside and have hot chocolate. I spent more time getting the three of us dressed than the time we actually spent outside. Oh well.

Kaylin showing off her cross-eyed look while eating a cookie and hot chocolate, which she won't drink hot or even warm.

Playing on the couch after hot chocolate.

Apparently we had 6 inches of snow in the front yard.

I saw a tutorial online for making snowflakes out of coffee filters. I happened to have some so we got to work. Kaylin had a tough time cutting through all the layers, so we resorted to painting the filters.