First Snow

Snow! Or as Nora says, "Noooooo!" The day after Christmas, while we were still in New York, we got a few inches of snow. After bundling Nora up the best we could (leg-warmers as snow pants!) and went outside to play in the winter wonderland. 

It was Nora's first time actually playing in the snow. At first, she was a little tentative but soon yelled "Nooooo!" with a big grin on her face. After a little coaxing, Nora enjoyed touching the snow and climbing on the pile left by the snow plow. Aunt Mary Anne added some fun to the experience, as she did when I was a kid playing in the snow, too! 

December 26, 2012
Stillwater, NY

Winter Fun

There is a small children's museum in town called The Orpheum. We visited the museum for the first time to see how they turned their auditorium into a snow globe. There were trees decorated with lights,  there were light-up reindeer and sleds, and activities for kids to participate in. We threw "snow balls" (white cotton balls) into an igloo, went "ice fishing" and got a prize from a mermaid, and decorated trees and snowmen. Nora loved playing with the ornaments used to doctorate the trees and tried to eat the fake carrots used as the snowman's nose. We loved watching the excitement in Nora's eyes as she took it all in.

Building a snowman