Our First Week of 2017

We got lots of snow again at the beginning of the week/year and we decided we had been keeping ourselves cooped up inside for too long and needed fresh air. So we put on all our snow gear (much to Crew's dismay--soooo much screaming) and off we went to enjoy the snow. 

Snow-boot prints

Building a snowman

It wasn't as tall as Crew wanted it to be ("Make it bigger!!") because we couldn't get the snow to stick very well, but we in the end he still liked it and had fun singing frosty the snowman and dancing around it. It's kind of a longish video, but he really starts singing and humming about 3/4 of the way through.

 

We built a decent snowman, but Crew decided to knock it down over and over again until it was pretty much dying. Then he decided he wanted it to come back to life so Jon and I made do with what was left of the snowman and one thing turned into another and he ended up being a snowman pirate. Jon and I were laughing and pretty proud of ourselves. Crew didn't understand what was so funny about it. He thought it looked just fine. Ah, the sweet, non-judgmental innocence of a child.

Note the snow eye patch, the hook arm, and even a pine cone peg leg

Later that afternoon I decided I wanted Crew to try sledding. We borrowed one of my parent's sleds and headed to a nearby hill to give it a try. I didn't record the first time they went down but it was obvious from the start that Crew was not okay with this activity. He whined and complained the whole way down with Jon. Then they came back up and I told him he needed to go down one more time.

My favorite part of that second time down, as you can see in the video, is that he came straight back up and told me he didn't want to do it again. Listen carefully, you will hear it at the very end. Ha ha ha! He still didn't like it. Oh well, we'll try again next winter I guess! Maybe with a faster sled and a steeper hill.

Coming back up the hill

This was our announcement we posted on social media this week to announce the pregnancy. Fun fact: Crew HATES wearing that cape (in case you haven't noticed, he's pretty disagreeable about most everything these days. I think we've hit the terrible twos!) and we had to trick him by pinning the cape onto a shirt and then slipping the new shirt on him without him noticing. About 1 minute after this picture was taken, he turned, noticed the cape, and immediately freaked out, 

Jon took this picture. I guess Daddy lets him be more of a dare devil, but insisted to me that he was close enough to help him should anything have happened.

I love how Crew is smiling so big in the picture. He loves playing with Daddy!!

Playing with trucks is very hard work