Corona Virus Quarantine Day #287: Having Snow Much Fun: Monday, January 4, 2020:
So today got away from me and I didn’t have a chance to interview one of the kids. So instead I want to focus on the fun we have had in the snow the last 3 days. I used to despise snow when the kids were younger because I’d do all the work to get them dressed and they’d be out there for 12 minutes.
The kids can mostly-ish get themselves together and they stay out for hours. On Saturday, the kids, Bryan and I went on a hike to try to find a big hill (bigger than our back yard) to sled down. It was an adventure. We climbed trees, Bryan sled over some barbed wire (of course not knowingly) and we took some chances, some that made mommy very nervous.
Here is a summary of the fun in photos!
I love this picture of the kids looking out at the snow. They were so excited to have snow to play in! One of my favorite finds. Another tree had fell onto this one and it’s roots were still in the ground. I have never seen anything like this and we all thought it was awesome!
A branch between two trees that made a pretty cool swing. It was another great find!
Some of us were more nervous to fall off than others. But either way…we had some fun with this!
We went down by the “river” and scaled walls. It turns out Gigi is a good wall scaler! We also jumped off tree stumps into the snow. That was a good time. Mommy wasn’t a huge fan of either activity because I saw things like broken arms and busted faces but all in all it’s good to let kids take these chances and explore. I really loved watching them all try to climb this “mountain” (Fletcher’s words) together…not an easy task in snow boots. I was mostly grateful no one ended up in the water. Brrrrr!
The “hill” or pathway we ended up settling on for sledding. Can’t say this didn’t make me nervous. A lot of trees we could run into but once we built a few snow walls and learned how to turn we were mostly fine! Cooper was even brave enough to go down face first (sweet Mother…I said a Hail Mary the first time). I am not sure who had the most fun with this, the kids or Bryan!
Yes…we also tried to sled down this hill…until we ran over barbed wire! Yikes!
There was a lot of snow balls thrown and Fletcher created snow art with a tree that was split. Good times had by all!
Our original snowman with Oreo eyes and buttons. Gigi ate all of those. Ellen was determined to make her own and that she did. Sunday after hours of basketball practice the kids got home and wanted to sled some more…so sled we did. Ellen spent most of her time building her snowman (far right). I was pretty impressed…it was much more symmetrical than the one I helped create!
Not sure anyone loves the snow more than Finley Joseph Dorsey. Man, does he love the darn snow! He could be out there all day. In the past three days he spent close to 12 hours in the snow! A lot of that time trying to master the snow board!
Fletcher is also a big fan of the snow. He also apparently doesn’t feel the cold. He refused to wear a coat for the first 30 minutes which resulted in him missing time in the snow. Notice the coat got put on…that’s a win for Mom and Dad! He also built his own snowman and a snow dog.
When we have a perfectly good hill that is unobstructed by weeds and trees it simply isn’t dangerous enough…so we move on to the dangerous hill with all of those things. We only had one incident that induced tears. The kids are much braver than I am anymore, though I am happy to report that I was out there pretty much the entire time! I spent a lot of that time building ramps or bumps for them to sled over!
It’s not sledding if we don’t do it with our cousins! So good! These kids have such a fun life together!
Gigi absolutely loved the snow. It was crazy. She didn’t get cold either and when we hiked for hours and sled down dangerous hills she’d chase them down to the bottom every time. She has to be exhausted. The kids like throwing snow balls at her which she tried to bite and eat! She’s a wild one!
Can I say for the record that I knew this would end badly…I wish I had kept the video rolling because he stood up and gave me a double thumbs up proclaiming that “I’m ok…that was awesome.”
So I go to bed tonight thankful for a weekend full of snow and that today the kids reentered school for the first time in weeks. They came home tired. Fletcher even fell asleep as I read him books.
#Celebr8Awesome 