It has been snowing most of the day here on the North Coast, with a classic lake effect setup. I have to admit that I kind of missed this, but it's easy for me to say that while it's still infrequent. By March, I'll most certainly be tired of it if the frequency is high.
Simon and I ran some errands I think in November, and while in a Target I saw a cheap, $8 sled. It went home with us in anticipation of this day. Sure, he's seen snow (we had some freakish snow events in Seattle), but he has never had the chance to be out in it. With that sled, and a big old hill behind my house, today was the day!
Getting him bundled up was funny, because he was pretty much like Randy in A Christmas Story. He couldn't (or wouldn't) put his arms down. He clearly wasn't sure what to do with the mittens either, which were a bit too big for his little hands. We walked out of the garage, and I chucked a snowball at him. He wasn't that interested in the snow.
In any case, I put him on the sled, and I started to drag it around the house to the back yard. Diana captured the hilarities as we went. Since he kept his arms up, he wasn't holding on, and kept falling back. Finally, I carried him up the hill, and we went for it.
I have to say, it was pretty awesome for backyard sledding! Particularly once we had a path, it got faster each time. We each went down with Simon three times. He was kind of indifferent about it, but I think he was just trying to figure out why it was so cold.
Good times. We're not far from a very large toboggan chute, but I think we should wait a year or two before we decide to try that out.
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