We woke up Sunday morning to snow coming down again and we couldn’t believe it! We knew that the roads (at least from their house to ours) were passable if we went slow so we planned to go home that afternoon but wanted to make the most of our morning so everyone suited up and we got ready to go play outside!
Thankfully Mom and Dad have amassed a collection of ski clothes over the years and Charlie and I were outfitted almost 100% in snow clothes. Everyone else had a smattering of regular clothes along with big jackets. But poor Charlotte had next to nothing in the way of snow clothes because…. well, we live in Alabama! So we layered her up and hoped that it would be enough! You’ll be glad to know that when we got back inside and peeled off all of her layers her legs were a little cool but nothing was wet and she didn’t appear to be too cold and warmed back up quickly!
So on to our adventure!
In case you aren’t familiar with Alabama weather, it is so so rare to get this much snow. The last time there was snow like this on Christmas my Mom was 3 years old! So we kept telling Charlotte that this probably wouldn’t happen again forever but, since she’s only 1 and a half, she didn’t get it, but I’m sure one day she’ll look back on these pictures and wish she could remember it! But for us we will always hold such fond memories of this Christmas and all of the fun in the snow!
We came back inside and after we got warmed up Charlotte took one of her new Elmo dvd’s to Charlie and persistently said “Elmo! Elmo!” until he gave in and put it in. It appears that even a 19 month old can glean who is in charge of the tv with complete accuracy! 🙂 Char-Char was even sweet enough to let her sit in his lap and watch some!
We did eventually go home so that we could get some rest but this was definitely a Christmas for the record-books! I wish we had snow like that all the time! Although it looks like if the weathermen (and weather-man Jason) are correct we might get MORE snow than that on Sunday night! I would typically not believe those kinds of predictions but Jason predicted the snow on Christmas almost to the inch so I’m more likely to trust him until the next time he predicts 4 inches and we only get a dusting! 🙂 We’re finding a snowsuit for Charlotte in any case so that we’ll be prepared if it does snow again!
Lindsey
January 9, 2011 at 8:19 pmI love that picture of Charlotte and your brother! What a great uncle!!