First Snow

Our first snow of the winter arrived on Sunday.



This snow was much earlier than last year. We don't even have all of our fall yardwork done.

Snow doesn't last long here (in fact, it has already melted, three days later), so sent O. outside. Unfortunately, the precipitation before the snow was an inch or two of rain. O. found the minipond in our backyard, and he quickly broke through the ice. And the minipond quickly became a mud landing strip. Those sweatpants he's wearing in the picture below used to be light grey.



Sure was fun though.

December

Woooosh. That is the sound of our autumn that just flew by.

We now have a three-year old in the house.


Because we are those parents who exacerbate their child's car fetish rather than curtailing with gentle discipline, he received a semitruck that serves as a car carrier. He loves it.


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Only a few house-related activities have occurred recently. We put up the Christmas tree yesterday. We placed it in a different spot from last year. It's beside the fireplace, which means we need a tall, skinny tree. We also decided we needed more red in the tree, because the tree last year looked too brown and dull.



O.'s tree decorating skills improved this year. He was able to hang ornaments this year, though he doesn't have a good sense of spacing them, yet--I keep finding four ornaments on the same branch.