March 20, 2008

• Family Visit

  Eric and Rachel decided to come for a weekend visit the day it decided to snow all throughout the midsouth. When they were an hour and a half out, they hit icy roads and accidents all along the highway, which had traffic at a crawl. They pulled off the road looking for a hotel, and missed the very last room in town. There wasn’t an availability for miles in either direction. So, troopers that they are, the trucker, his pregnant wife, and their two young children took a nap in their pickup for a few hours. We were expecting them before midnight, but due to the roads, they finally arrived around 7:00 AM the next morning, just in time to play in our new snow.

  This is Jack, making first tracks.

  I fed everybody breakfast (aren’t you impressed that I cooked?), and then we hunted down mittens and rain or snow boots (I used neither–plastic bags covered my crocs; it was oh-so-hip) and took everyone outside.

  

  Eric built a snow man with the kids, and John stockpiled ice balls (to aim at his unsuspecting wife).

  

  Anna Kathryn attacking Eric from the rear–on the rear.

  

  The girls made snow angels.

  

  As the day wore on, the kids and their dads got creative and decided to see if the jeep could treck over the snow.

  

  It could.

  This was a first for the twins, and they were sufficiently awed. William was incredibly eager to explore.

  

  Stephen was a little less certain. He found the one spot without snow and stood there for a while.

  

  Then he sat down and observed until his bottom got cold.

  

  William meanwhile went off the main tracks and blazed his own trail. I tried to follow him with the camera, but all I could get were his footsteps–he doesn’t walk, this child. He flies. You’d have to see it to believe it. Especially in those rain boots two sizes too big.

  

  There he is!

  

  The boys tried out the riding toys. They didn’t go anywhere.

  

  

  

  Stephen decided he wanted to watch the fun from Mommy’s lap. So Mommy sat down on the wet chair and obliged.

  

  And William sat down with a shovel and played in the sand–er, snow.

  It was a morning well-spent. Rachel agreed–she got a shower and a nap!

   

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