Indoor artwork before we tackled the snow again.
Swinging in the snow is fun!
Sennet was NOT HAPPY that we couldn’t go see this snowman. The truth is that I didn’t want to hoist myself over the fence.
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This is what happens when there is no school and Sennet dresses himself for the day.
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Not really, but we did get about 4 inches of big, beautiful flakes. Fell slowly throughout the day like chicken feathers – made the whole neighborhood glow. That kind of weather really wrecks Seattle, but for us it was awesome. It was really the first time Sennet got to experience snow when he could understand it and appreciate it.
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We got him all dressed up in warm clothes and boots, and I took him on his push-bike over to the Madrona playground. He slipped and slid around a bit, but never fell down. He did stop a few times to clean the snow off his wheels and handlebars – a bit fastidious, that one.
He loved playing in the snow: throwing snowballs, rolling around, running, jumping, and building a little snowman.
Then his gloves got soaked through and his hands froze. That was the signal to head back home where mom served homemade hot chocolate with marshmallows AND whipped cream. We sipped the chocolatey goodness as the snow kept falling.
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There was not enough candy in the world, not enough pirate booty, not enough juice or chocolate milk, not enough shiny stickers- there was not enough of any sort of bribe I could think of to make Sennet put on his Halloween costume on Halloween. Today however, with no prompting at all, Sennet put on his Elmo hat and we were hard pressed to get him to take it off. I guess I will just add these pics to the Halloween 2011 memory book so that when he is older he doesn’t wonder why his parents were so lame and didn’t even bother to get him a costume.
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It was so sunny today so I took Sennet to Seward Park for a bike ride. He is so speedy now that I could take a brisk jog alongside except for the fact that the park (swings, slides, zipline) beckons him way before I could ever really get a good work out in… one day. Not to mention the fact that a brisk jog might actually kill me at the moment….The sun was quite deceptive because it was quite cold because of the biting wind – Sennet didn’t seem to notice or care but I was chilly!
