There's no business like SNOW business!!

I'm finishing up a post with details about Noah walking but just had to jump in and share these pictures first.  Today is Mary Faith's 6th birthday and she has been thoroughly enjoying the fact that she is the very first Estes to ever have SNOW on her birthday!!!  We've all been having loads of fun . . .

We made snow ice cream!

Then we made snow balls!!  I gave Noah the option of going out to the snow or having some snow brought in for him to play with.  After debating quite a while he decided to have his siblings bring him some snow.  BTW, he has on nice warm gloves under those purple ones LOL - we just put those over the knit gloves to keep his hands dry!  (Just keepin' it real with Noah's less-than-tidy bookshelf in the background!  :-)  )

Then we THREW snowballs!  Of course, once Noah and Mary Faith had made a huge bowl of snowballs, they needed to throw them.  Noah scooted right out the front door to the top of the wheelchair ramp and had a blast throwing snowballs while Mary Faith and some of the others ran around and played.  (The older ones had just come in and were warming up while doing a jigsaw puzzle).

Of course, it wasn't ALL fun and games.  We had to watch out for wolves - especially Jake, Fierce Wolf of the Southern Tundra!!!!

I hope you're not tooooo terribly scared of this ferocious beast . . . yeah, we weren't scared either.  :-)
 

Poor Jake just doesn't do the whole fierce wolf thing very convincingly.  Lucky for us, he does do the whole super-faithful and extra-adorable thing just perfectly!!!

We have lots of fun planned for the rest of the day.  Sledding, birthday cake, and plenty of hot chocolate are next on the agenda.  :-)



Blessings,
Kate