Oh Snow!

After a pretty fun filled weekend: a birthday party of a school buddy, hanging out at home on Saturday, Luke feigning illness Sunday morning to avoid church (we think), informing Luke he was well enough for church Sunday night, we got a very exciting call Sunday night. No school on Monday because snow was on the way. That's how we roll in the south. We cancel school when snow is just predicted.

We talked to Mimi on the phone shortly after getting the cancellation phone call. She asked Luke what he would be doing on his snow day. His reply: "Just relax." The daily grind is so tough on the almost 6 year old.

Well fortunately for school officials, the forecast was correct and we got some snow. After a morning of Wii play, I informed the boys we would be going outside and playing in the snow.



Luke enjoyed creating his snow outfit. Isn't the scarf lovely?


The snow was perfect for building a snowman, just wet enough to pack easily. Luke was not exactly enthusiastic about making a snowman, but once seeing the finished product he claimed he loved making snowmen.


Posing with his snow brother.

Yes, I got out the tripod and set the timer in the snow. My boys LOVE that about me.

After the snowman making, we started gently throwing some snowballs. Luke was kind of fearful of getting hit. So I told him to go tell Daddy a story and while he was talking, I would come up behind Daddy and smash a snowball on Dad's head.

This game was a BIG hit with Luke.

Lamar, post snow in the head. We played many, many times with Luke assigning roles. "OK, Dad you tell the story. Mom you listen. And I'll be the snowballer."

Luke with a few snow smashing remnants on his cap.

After the snow smashing, Luke suggested we play baseball in the snow. We made big fluffy snow baseballs and hit them with our hands. If you demolished your snowball, homerun.

It was fun. But tomorrow is Luke's third snow day. He's hopeful he'll go back on Thursday, because snow is only fun for a day or two.