The Cold Weather Kid

Its obviously been a tough winter this year with very cold temperatures and lots of snow.  For the most part we've been staying indoors like everyone else, but there have been a few days were Ben REALLY wanted to go outside.  Cold, snow, ice?  Ben doesn't care...

Its hard to play in the yard when there's a couple feet of snow, so we actually played in the street a couple times this winter.  Making snow balls, kicking the snow and trying to JUMP! 

Ben has been trying to jump so hard!  Its so darn cute watching him try to get his feet off the ground, but he's just not quite there yet. 

So fortunately this day was before all the really deep snow came and we were able to make it into the yard and play for a while.   We made a path over to Ben's little house and he ran right in!

Aunt Donna was over and she helped clear off slide and catch Ben at the bottom!

Playing outside in the winter is fun because there are some different things you can do that you certainly can't do in the summer...  Like eat icicles!

And get adults to do things that they normally wouldn't do - like pull little kids in sleds!

Ben really enjoyed sledding!  I'm sure we'll be doing it lots more times in the years to come.

Gotta love that smile!!