Jared's New Profession

December 30, 2009
Jared had been wanting to take Chloe out in the snow for a while now, which really surprised me because Jared generally is NOT a winter person. Chloe screamed at first. We usually carry her out to the car, so she had never really even walked in the snow before. It didn't take her long to warm up to it though.Jared tried to teach her how to make snowballs. He faced two challenges- the snow was too light to pack into a ball and Chloe is 2 years old, so the only concepts she got were "pick up the snow" and "throw it."Chloe loved the icicles too. Jared plucked one from the stairs. He tried to clean it off by dipping it in the snow, sucking off a bit, and spitting it out. Chloe, being the great repeater that she is, spit almost every time she licked it.I tried to get her to do snow angels with me. She was more interested in trying to bury me in it.Everything in the yard, including the swing set, held a new wonder all covered in snow.

I didn't realize that she enjoyed her time outside as much as she did until a few weeks later. We were playing with her dollhouse and she told me that the Daddy was leaving for work. I asked her, out of curiosity, what the Daddy did for work. She thought for a second, and then with surprising conviction, she replied, "Snowballs. Daddy makes snowballs!"