Snow, glorious snow!

We got totally dumped on last Sunday night/Monday morning! It was a great day, as our tube line is mostly outside, it was shut down, all buses were shut down and pretty much the entire population of London had a snow day.




Aidan was very excited to both get to sleep in and to wake up to mom home making snowman pancakes. He decorated it himself with raisins and dried cranberries. Poor kid doesn't even realize that if he pushed us we would have let him use candy instead of dried fruit :)



It was amazing to see all the people out heading to the park in snow kit with sleds(sledges here) in hand. After admiring the snow in our back garden, Aidan and I put on our snow clothes and went to play in the front. Now, notice in the picture below that Aidan has instinctively created a snow angel. We've read the classic kid's book, The Snowy Day, a few times but it was hilarious to see how naturally he realized that fresh snow is made to roll around in.


Aidan was also ready for a good snowball fight. For about a year or so Jamie has played pretend snowball fight with Aidan. I'm not really sure how it came about, but it became one of his favorite things to pretend to gather up snow and then throw it, though he looked more like Ryu throwing his blue fire balls.

Despite all of Aidan's pretend snowball making, he had to have me make most of them. I threw a few at him, which he thought was pretty fun. I can't wait until he's old enough to really pelt him! Ultimately, he was more excited about me putting the biggest piece of snow he could carry in his arms and then eating it.

We ended the day by making one of the worst snowmen ever. Jamie and Zach were both giving me a hard time for my pathetic snowman making skills. In my defense, I did grow up in Central California and saw snow about 4 times in my life before moving to Washington.

Best snow story I heard: my co-small group leader stood out on his balcony at 9:00am on Monday morning and just chucked snowballs at people walking to work. Half threw them back and half were really pissed. Oh, and he's 25. Never grow up people, never grow up :)

Cheers!