Ahhhh....snow!!

We got snow yesterday and today...yay! Growing up in California, I always mourned the lack of snow. I felt robbed every year when Christmas meant green grass, sunny skies, temps in the 70s...it was just wrong. I dreamed, every year, of living someplace that got snow in the winter, fall color in autumn...you get the picture. So you can imagine what it felt like to wake up today and see white on the ground. Incredible, and exhilerating, and exciting, and so much fun!

I took Emma out as early as I possibly could. Forever ago, I bought her a snowsuit from Once Upon a Child. From the pics below, you can see she looked like a big, lavendar marshmallow. She certainly felt squishy in all that fluffy down! I had hoped that she would like the snow. We had flurries on Thanksgiving, and she was completely not impressed. So today I took her out and set her on the ground, and then I crossed my fingers. She looked down at the stuff coating her boot, and it was clear that she was thinking, "What the heck is this?" So I tossed some in the air, and it floated down, powdery and dry, and she started giggling and squealing and shouting, "More, more!" She tried to toss some snow herself and ended up on her tummy in the snow. Instead of fussing, she giggled and started digging and shuffling around in the snow. I couldn't stop giggling, myself.

I'm absolutely thrilled that Emma will grow up with all the seasons. She can jump in piles of leaves, make snowmen, get excited when the first bulbs pop up, and complain about the heat and humidity. But there won't be that constancy that you see in California, the lack of change that I never enjoyed. There are some that appreciated the mild climate, but I wished for the excitement of changing weather. Now, just watch: Emma will long for mildness!