Around six inches of snow fell here this past Friday night. My husband had to work all day on Saturday, so Tate and I were moping around, feeling housebound with long hours stretching ahead. Okay, the moping part was only me. I know it wasn’t my husband’s preference to work, but that didn’t stop me from feeling sorry for myself, all alone on a Saturday. 

My pity party reminded me once again of this great article from Parents magazine. It’s written by a single mom who’s sick of hearing her married friends complain about what their husbands aren’t doing, or aren’t doing the right way, when she would love to have a parenting partner- especially one that loves her and her baby! A must-read!

Anyway, I decided it was worth the effort to get Tate and myself bundled up in snow clothes so that we could go outside and play. I don’t quite have the timing perfected…it seemed wise to put on all of my layers first so he wouldn’t be sitting in his snowsuit too long and pulling off mittens, but then I got all sweaty wrestling him into the snowsuit, and had to de-layer myself a bit. Once both of us were sufficiently bundled, we headed outside.

When we all went sledding on Christmas Eve, Tate got a big kick out of crawling around in the snow. I thought maybe he’d just play on the deck a little while I shoveled the sidewalk. Much to my surprise, he just sat there in exactly the same spot the entire time. This is not a kid who generally sits still for anything. I think he was stunned.

Eventually he started to whimper so I plopped down next to him, realizing that playing in the snow was perhaps not an intuitive skill. It was too fluffy to pack together but I showed him how to make piles of snow, push it around, taste it, etc. Nope, he wasn’t having any of it, as this picture reveals. (Mom, if you’re reading this, I promise that the mittens were only off for a minute, so that he could feel the snow, and then we went inside!). I guess Minnesota winter must be an acquired taste.

Have any of you found fun things to do in the snow with your little ones?

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