First Snow Play of the Season!

The past couple of mornings, we have woken up to a light dusting of snow on the ground. It's melted and gone by noon, but that doesn't stop the kids from getting ridiculously excited over seeing it and wanting to get right out and play in it! Since today was Veteran's day and they didn't have school, we took advantage of that time this morning and got outside for a little snow play, for the first time this season!

It was also a good time to test out our new boots, new snow pants, and new hats and mittens we got for this year. Everything passed the test perfectly, by the way. ;)

 

Needless to say, all of the kiddos thoroughly enjoyed running, jumping, laying, and playing in the snow! They got out the sand buckets and shovels and dug around a little bit...

Mason had to try out the snow and see how it tasted this year...

I think he found it satisfying...

Merasia couldn't resist practicing her ballet stretches, snow garb and all...

And no trip outside in the snow would be complete for our children if they didn't take the broom and clean off mine and daddy's vehicles...

Kendall even got in on the fun for a little while and liked sitting and watching her older siblings play in this cool, new white stuff she had never seen before...

Mason and Merasia were the first to come in, but Connor stayed out for quite a while longer, just brushing snow off our vehicles and tinkering around a bit. The age of the twins this year is nice, because they know what they can and cannot do, and behave very well, so we can leave them outside for small periods of time and watch them from our front window or keep poking our heads out and checking on them, and not freeze ourselves for hours on end that they love to play. 

The kids were a little upset that the snow was gone by the time nap time rolled around, but I assured them it would be back...lots and lots and lots of it, very soon! That seemed to satisfy them for now...