Frosting

I guess Mother Nature was pretty excited about Eliza's three week birthday because she decided to frost the whole world (at least where we live) with a special dusting of October snow. I can't say that I was very excited about the world turning white, when it is only October, but Hayden seemed pretty tickled by it.

Since it's Thursday, Hayden was home with me and Eliza all day - no preschool today. What do we do on a random snowy Thursday in October? Well, I introduced Hayden to hot chocolate. She could probably take or leave the hot chocolate, but she really liked the marshmallows on top.
She did a lot of coloring with markers and stickers. We sorted through her clothes to try and keep her drawers from overflowing. Luckily the weather outside made it easy to know that it was time to put away tank tops and shorts! We folded some laundry. We watched a little bit of Sesame Street while I nursed Eliza. While Hayden was interested for a little bit, we've definitely done a good job not getting her hooked on TV since she asked me to read a book while we were watching the TV and then told me it was okay to turn it off as she started to play with other toys.

We all took nice long naps. Ellie was asleep for much of the day, just quietly resting in her bouncer.

Even Hayden took an almost 3 hour nap; She woke up in a great mood, excited to look outside at the snow.

She even helped get all her clothes on so we could go play outside in the snow. Can you believe how it kind of piled up? Where it stuck, we probably got at least an inch!

Eliza wasn't too sure how she felt about snow - this picture shows her arching back from inside the wrap as we walked outside. She soon calmed down and snuggled in - just so you don't think I was really taking a 3 week old out to play in the snow!

Daddy helped Hayden build a little snow man. His acorn eyes kept popping out, and Blizzard stole his arm, but he turned out pretty cute.


After outdoor play, which Hayden did not want to come from, we made dinner - enchiladas from the freezer thanks to my mom. Yum! And we made oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. For anyone who might bake with Hayden, watch out! She'll taste just about anything. She went to town on the piece of lemon we had out to get juice from, she tried a small crumb of brown sugar that missed the bowl and she even started started tasting the bits of flour that were on the counter, saying "I like that." And of course, she licked the beater clean.

Despite the snow in October, we had a pretty good day. But I still wouldn't mind if Indian summer wanted to make an appearance next week!