Saturday, January 1, 2011

53 degrees and snow

Happy New Year!!! On New Year's Eve day Ally and I went to the park - it was 53 degrees here, but still lots of snow on the ground. We had a blast.
The warm weather made the snow perfect for snowballs. Neither one of us had the patience for a snow man.

Ally loves to taste the clean white snow, and she says it smells good too.

with a big snow ball getting ready to throw it at me


in air shot!


heave


HO


running to catch me.

Ally would run after me and yell stop stop . As soon as I stopped


She would hurl the snow ball at me!


Then we went over to the playground area and I made a platform for Ally to stand on at the monkey bars. (The bane of Ally's existence at this park is that she can't reach the monkey bars all on her own, we spent so much time this summer and fall building a pile of wood chips to see if she could reach but it was impossible.)


But with this snow she could do it!

She was so thrilled! And the it was warm enough to have fun on the bar with the snow platform and no mittens!


love the smile!

We went home after about an hour at the park - here Ally is on our front yard, wet knees and a huge snow ball to show mama!

1 comment:

Helen said...

Congratulations to Ally on mastering the monkey bars. This is the most difficult thing for our Pre-K students to do on our playground. Many of the students can just climb the ladder, get to the second bar and hang. Practice, practice, practice is what makes them successful.