This winter has been pretty mild.  We saw a little bit of snow in October but that has been it.  Last night it snowed.  I didn’t tell John about the possibility of snow.  I didn’t want to disappoint him.  He woke up this morning and came running to find me.  “Mommy!  Mommy!  It snowed!!!”  He was so excited.  He found Daddy and made him look out all the windows to see the snow.  When Gillian woke up, he saw her and said, “Mommy?  Did you show her the snow?”  I had a hair appointment, so I left the kids with Daddy.  When I got to Point Pleasant and it was snowing, I text Daddy to let him know that he should try to get the kids outside to play.  I was afraid that it would start raining and they would get to enjoy any of the snow.  Daddy took the kids out for a little bit. 

The kids had a little snow fight with Daddy and they tried to build a snowman too.  Daddy said that Gillian not too fond of the snow.  But she did try to make a snowball.

I got home from my hair appointment, made the kids lunch and put Gillian down for her nap.  Gillian didn’t want to go to sleep.  I tried to rock her.  As I was rocking her, I told John to read books in his room.  After a little bit, he came into Gillian’s room and said “Can I rock too?”  I let him climb into the chair.  He sat right next to me.  I thought he was just going to be silly and wake her up.  But no, he climbed into the chair and patted Gillian on the back.  What a good big brother.

John and I got to play outside while Gillian was napping.  Our goal was to clear some of the snow off the deck for Duncan.  That didn’t take long and we got to play for a little bit.  John wanted to go by his swing set.  We walked all the way there, and he climbed on top.  “There is snow up here?”  Silly boy.  He sent me back to get his little snow shovel.  He had to clear off his swing set. 

He worked really hard to clear off the top of the swing set.  Then he had to go down the slide (which was covered in snow).  He got stuck and then giggled and giggled.  He loved it. 

After playing outside, we watched Yogi and made super hero cookies.  Overall a really good snow day.