Snow much fun!

 Our first big snow fell this weekend and Connor was very excited to go out and play in it!  He got his first shovel for Hanukkah and he ran right out to help Daddy with the driveway.

He quickly got bored of shoveling, so we played in the snow on the side.  Daddy threw piles of snow on him and he thought it was funny!

Oops.  Daddy threw too much!

Connor pulled out the wagon from the garage and asked me to take him for a ride.  This is extra tiring when there's snow on the ground and I'm pregnant, but we did it!

We also took out the slide and tried to slide down it into the snow piles!

We had a great time outside together!

Winter Fest with Santa

On Saturday, I was very excited to take Connor to Winter Fest at a local park district.  We went last year and it had a lot of fun activities for kids.  I also love that you can visit Santa, but you don't have to wait in a huge line.  We arrived right when it opened so we could visit Santa right away! 

When we walked in the room, I could tell Connor started to get nervous.  He tried to hide behind me while I showed him that the other kids loved Santa and got to sit on his lap.  When it was our turn, he started to cry.  He wouldn't go near Santa unless I did too, so we got a photo together.  Hilarious!

Here's last year and he's just as upset!


To calm down, we went to the next room where we decorated snowman cookies!  Connor put icing and m&ms on his cookie.

Then we ate our cookie!

We went into the gym and did some of the little holiday activities.

Connor's favorite part was the bounce house!  Once I got him in there, he loved it!

Slide!

And again...

And again...

Snow!

It hasn't really snowed that much this winter (which I'm VERY ok with), but I wanted to at least play outside in the snow once or twice so Connor could experience it.  We both got out of work a little early the day it snowed, so we played a little in the front yard while we shoveled the driveway.

I hate to admit that it was way more fun than I remembered!  He loved it and it made me enjoy snow a little bit more! :)

I decided to pretend it was spring and let Connor ride his bike in the driveway!

He LOVED when we "buried" him in the snow piles!  He giggled and kept asking us to do it over and over again.

Daycare winter photos

 I never posted these because I was waiting for the high-resolution cd.  I think my paperwork got lost, so I gave up and now I'm trying to cancel my order.  Anyway, these turned out adorable!

I was a little sad that they retouched his scars on his forehead so I was going to ask them to fix that.  I would have preferred that they retouch the bottom of his shoes with nasty who-knows-what on them!