Today was our first snow of the season. So, I bundled E up in her 'winter' garb and outside we went. She was excited at first, until she realized that she had trouble walking in it, and it stuck to her mittens when she fell in it. E doesn't like dirt on her hands...she always would wipe off her hands on my pants, and the same is true with snow. She doesn't like it on her mittens, and her mittens are fleece. Consequently, the snow sticks to them a lot. Every time that she fell down she had to come over to me to wipe her hands off, and if she fell walking over to me, life was over because then there was even more snow on her mittens! She did allow me to finish shoveling off the driveway, but by the end she was woefully wailing that it was time to be finished. She was quite pathetic actually.
The funniest moment was when she decided to go head-first down one of the snow piles that I had created. It was a very small pile, and I watched her stake it out and look it over. She must have decided that it looked kind of like a slide. I stopped watching her at this point. A few moments later, she started yelping. I look over and all I can see are her boots flailing at the top of the pile of snow. She was stuck! Head and arms at the bottom and feet at the top. Had she not been distressed, I definitely would have run for the camera, but she didn't appreciate her predicament.
She was scared of the leaf piles when we started raking this fall, but by the end of the season, she loved them. I think the same will happen with snow. Eventually, she'll love our time spend in the snow and I'll have to drag her in...instead of her dragging me in. ;-)
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