another snowy day

thursday night into friday around noon, we had around 12 inches of snow fall. poor matt was out in it shovelling before work on friday morning (probably 8 or 10 inches at that time) and it was still coming down at a pretty good pace. the driveway was covering back up quicker than he could shovel.

madelyn and i spent the day inside. mainly because of the snow, but also because matt only shovelled his side of the driveway so i couldn't have left even if i wanted to. later in the afternoon the snow had stopped and the wind had let up so i decided to take maddie out to shovel up the couple of inches that had fallen since matt had left for work. unfortunately, matt had taken the shovel with him in his car so that he could shovel his way back in when he got home. at least i thought about helping matt out.

madelyn enjoyed playing with her shovel though. she really wanted me to make her a snowball, but the snow was just too dry and powdery to stick. she didn't understand why she couldn't have a "ball", so i tried to distract her by using her shovel to throw snow up in the air. she was really excited to see our neighbor across the street! she kept yelling "hi" even after he went back inside his house. it was so cute. in fact, when we tried to get her to go out and play in the snow on saturday she was not interested in putting on her snow pants at all until i asked her if she wanted to go say "hi" to mr. gerry. that did the trick. she screamed "yes" and ran over to me with her pants.

the snow was really too deep for madelyn's enjoyment. it was even difficult to pull her sled because the snow was so powdery and deep. plus, whenever she would try to walk in the deeper snow she would fall down without being able to get back up on her own. but even with all this she threw a fit when i stripped her down to go inside.

she did say "snow" for the first time while we were talking about how much there was on the ground. love.