Snow Day....

It's been cold here. Really cold. Finally today it snowed, and that makes the cold okay. It's been hard to get everyone concentrating on school the past week, since our school room is unheated and the space heater just couldn't keep up with 20 degree highs. We've moved to the dining room table and keeping the younger 2 occupied with most of the toys in the frozen room has been difficult. Today the distraction was the flurries outside the window. It was okay when they were just flurries but when big fluffy flakes started to fall all was lost.
"Mom, can we call daddy and tell him it's snowing?" (Rylan)
" Can I just go on the deck and see if I can catch one with my tongue?" (Cale)
"Look!! Mommy!!It's a big snow!!" (Cohen)
"no! no! no" (as in snow! snow! snow! Lakin)

So we went out for a few minutes...not all bundled up but enough...

But after lunch and quiet time they piled on the clothes....us southerners don't usually stock the snowsuits....so it was PJs under the clothes and socks for mittens.... Here's their attempt at at snowball fight....

After coming in for the must-have hot chocolate, they went back out. This time Lakin was awake and they had their hearts set on a snowman. Okay....more of a snow, mud and grass man....

They were so excited to actually use the snowman kit we received a few years back...

Its amazing how big the snowballs got considering what little snow was in the grass....good thing the dogs have given us a considerable amount of lawn with no grass growing. But Mr. Snowman has just fallen over and I am being asked to go repair him so they can show their dad when he gets home tonight....