First snow!

Matt was on duty all weekend and on Sunday, his duty was to drive a van to Providence, RI to drop kids off at the mall. I was hoping that there'd be enough room for me and Kent to hitch a ride. There was! So the kids went shopping and we went to the Children's museum. We had only been there once, when Kent was crawling, and only pulling himself up, so his interest level was just so-so. It was tiring carrying him from display to display, or carrying him so that he could see/interact with the display.

Not this time. With a taller and walking child, everything's different.  And better. He was so much more enthusiastic about discovering this space and he especially loved the water tables: he stood with a measuring cup under running water and it was Kent Heaven. He also enjoyed taking out all of the balls from the water tanks. Needless to say, he got soaked (good thing I packed an extra outfit) and he threw a fit when it was time to leave to pick up the teenagers. I'm not sure how long he could've stayed there. Maybe 17 hours more?

On the drive home it started snowing. We could tell it was finally going to stick and accumulate.

The next morning there were several inches and the sunrise was gorgeous.

It took a surprising amount of time to get this guy fitted into his snowsuit (thanks Kara!). He was like, what is this poofy think around me??

 But then he smiled for me.

Outside, I wanted him touch the snow with his bare hands, but he wasn't into that. We eventually put his mittens back on.

 Where's buddy?

 It didn't take long for his gloves and socks to soak through.

 So we had to go back inside. This is how Kent felt about it:

 After nap time, the sun came out and we headed out there again. Kent wanted to stomp all over it.

One more video of him trying to walk in his snowsuit. Too funny!

I can only expect that his excitement over snow will be more intense next year and we'll be able to stay out there longer than 10 minute increments!