The Baylor Family Blog

Sadly, due to sickness, the kids didn’t get to play in many of the winter snows that came through. I was a little disappointed, but I had a feeling that they would likely get a chance to play in some of the spring snow snows!

Colorado spring times are filled with plenty of snow and plenty of warm days with sunshine. The contrasting weather is strange and confusing at times. However, Eli’s love of snow makes the snowy spring days much more exciting! Only a few months ago, Abi would throw a temper tantrum of all temper tantrums the moment we put her in her snowsuit. To my surprise, this time Abi didn’t fuss a bit when I dressed her in her snowsuit and actually loved playing in the snow! The only tantrum she threw was when it was time to go back inside!

Eli still loves eating snow and tromped around in foot deep drifts like a pro. He enjoyed going down the slides and playing hide and seek in the back yard. He also loves shoveling the walk with his snow shovel! I think he looks like a little skier in his snowsuit from Grandpa and Grandma Davis!

Abi loved going down the slides and taking rides on the sled. She really wanted to sit up while riding on the sled, but her balance isn’t good enough and she ended up face down in the snow a couple times. Amazingly, it didn’t bother her much!  She did much better riding on her belly! She was very curious and interested in the snow. It took her a while to figure out she could still move around on her own in the snow, but before long, she even got brave enough to crawl around in the snow on her own!

Enjoy the pictures!

Eli got a bike helmet for Christmas. He thinks its really cool.

Who says bike helmets can only be used when riding a bike?

And just so you know, this boy doesn’t only use his snow shovel in the winter!

I’d say he has pretty good technique for a two-year old, though. His daddy has taught him well!

The day after we played in the leaves, we woke up to a couple inches of snow outside. Being the first snow with enough accumulation to play in, I bundled the kids up for some fun outside. Fortunately, it wasn’t too cold!

Eli loved carrying around his snow shovel, tasting the snow, making hand prints and foot prints, being pulled around in his sled, and going down the slide.

Abi wasn’t too fond of her snowsuit. It was a bit too big on her, and quite frankly, she couldn’t move. As long as she was being carried around, though, she was quite content! I tried to stand her up, but she lost her balance and got a face full of snow. She wasn’t too happy about that! Oh well!

Contrary to Abi, Eli loves his snow gear. If he could, he would wear his mittens all the time! And it took a while to convince him he didn’t need to wear his snow boots every time we left the house (especially since the snow melted that day).

Since this snow, we had another big storm come through. Though lots of snow was predicted, we only ended with 5-6 inches here. However, the wind, cold, and ice closed many schools and some businesses. We were blessed with a “snow day” for Matt, too! Because the roads weren’t that bad (in my opinion), I took the opportunity of having Matt home to watch the kids, and I headed off to the dentist (who had lots of cancellations) and to get my hair cut (finally!). Its always nice to have an extra family day!

I took this picture one day after the picture above. Our snowman disappeared quickly!

The new computer is up and running and I have a lot of things to blog about from the last month. So not to confuse you, we didn’t just get snow…I actually tried to post this on April 22nd…but late than never, though!!

Well, we managed to have yet another three day weekend around here! Matt got Friday off as a snow day. And boy, did it snow and snow and snow!!  If the ground wasn’t so warm, we probably would have had a couple feet of snow, but fortunately it melted very quickly! But not so fast that Matt and Eli couldn’t build a snowman in the backyard! As much as I’m ready for spring weather (note: without snow), I love the amount of joy that Eli gets from the snow! Its amazing how kids can bring joy to any and all situations!

With the first real snow of the season, we jumped at the opportunity to pull out Eli’s new sled and introduce him to downhill sledding! However, Eli wasn’t quite as enthusiastic as we anticiapted. He may have been overwhelmed by all of the other kids around who were sledding or a little nervous at going fast down the hill or not quite awake from his nap. And he is two…his emotions can be hard to predict! But, Matt and I had a blast…and I think Eli will have more fun the next time we go sledding! We bundled little Miss Abi up in a snowsuit, but she happily slept in her car carrier during the adventures. We’ll wait to introduce her to sledding until next year! As you can tell from the picture of Eli and I, the snow was melting away fast!

As promised, here’s some pictures of today’s sledding adventures. Eli loved zooming across the yard in his sled.

Eli loves snow + It snowed last night = we’ll break out his new sled later today. Pictures will follow!