Snow day!

Lucy finally experienced her first snow day!
Last year, her first winter, was so mild I barely had a chance to put her winter coat on her!  It never really snowed, though I was prepared with a snowsuit for her to get a "baby's first snow" photo shoot in but it wasn't meant to be...but finally, we had some cold weather fun!  

Making footprints in the snow with dad!

You may find this hard to believe, but Lucy wanted her baby to come out with us...
I chose her naked bathtub baby since she's plastic and has no clothes that would get wet

When we went to the zoo for the Festival of Lights, Lucy refused to wear gloves, and she did the same on our snowy day adventure.  And I'm not talking she put up a fuss or cried...I'm talking she would NOT let me even put the gloves on her hands...squirming, arm flinging, the works.  

Suit yourself, kid.

So we were outside for a few minutes and she was checking out this whole snow thing.  We decided we wanted to make a snowman so I was going to run back inside to get our snowman making kit we'd gotten for Christmas from Grandpa and GranJan.  Lucy wanted to come with me.

She stood on the rug inside the door while I dashed through the house to get our kit...and I asked her one more time, "Would you like some gloves to wear?"

Seems all little Lucy needed was to learn exactly what gloves were for!  Her hands were freezing and she emphatically nodded YES and was perfectly still while I put the gloves on her.

Soon we had built an adorable snowman:

Lucy (and mom and dad!) was pretty cold but also really enjoyed herself...she helped me with some parts of the snowman (she put his arms on!) but also wandered over to her swingset with daddy...she and the baby couldn't resist a few snowy trips down the slide!

Luckily the yarsale-ing fool that is Lucy's GranJan had picked her up this snowsuit for her over the summer.

Unluckily, the plain old fool that is her mother had no appropriate snow shoes for so we doubled up on socks, made the best footwear choice available, and hoped for the best (at the end of our adventure, the shoes were wet, the top pair of socks were damp, the bottom pair were dry and the feet were dry and not too cold).  Again, GranJan and Grandpa came to the rescue and handed these puppies over later that week:

Lucy, daddy and snowman

This pic was taken out the basement window on zoom...
makes our snowman look a lot bigger than he really was!

A few more favorite snow day photos:

A lot of recent pictures show this expression on Lucy's face...
She's yelling "Cheeeeeeese!"