Snow...

After a snowy Halloween, we longed for snow for quite a while. No white Christmas, no white New Years. I was starting to lose hope, when all of the sudden Friday night we started seeing nice flying flakes. By morning we had a white carpet, frozen and not quite play friendly, but snow none the less.
Last year Catalina was terrified by snow. The second (and I mean second!) we tried to put her down in snow she started screaming. We were hopeful when in the morning we asked her if she wants to go outside to play in snow. She kept saying it's winter and cold and she needs gloves, but yes, she wants to go. So we bundled her up, we took gloves, our camera and off we went to get our noses and cheeks red by cold. Catalina decided to touch the snow, she kept saying it's cold (dah!!).

She got bored easily and she wanted inside, but I decided to carry her while Marius was taking pictures.  We ventured a little to far, her cheeks froze and she started crying and crying and crying. So we hurried back inside. We decided afterwords that we should wait for nice soft snow, the kind you can make snowmen out of, so maybe she can enjoy it better. So we stayed the rest of the weekend mostly in.
Sounds boring? Not to us or to Catalina! She is getting really good at using mommy's ipad. Here she is actually teaching daddy how to play

At the end of the lesson, daddy paid with strawberry ice cream, banana and chocolate syrup. Oh yeah, not a bad weekend at all!