in search of snow

It snowed pretty hard this morning, and I hoped for accumulation. Around 11, it didn't look like we were going to get any, so we opted to go to walmart and get some Christmas decor for half price for next year. Then we lunched at McD's and decided to drive north to find snow on the ground. We got into blowing, heavy snow in Calera and northward, but it was sunny in Pelham and we didn't see much around. We opted to not drive through Oak Mountain and instead went to see Granddaddy in the hospital. We had a lovely visit with him while Dennis marched to and fro in the room with Granddaddy's cane on his shoulder, alternately taking it down to 'fire a shot' (or as he puts it, "pow") one of us. There was lots of snow in Vestavia, so beautiful!

Dennis quizzed us in the car about things: "what does an acorn make?" ("a tree") and "then what do trees make?" ("acorns" Daddy replied). "No," Dennis said, "trees make toilet paper! And cows make milk." David was floored until I told him about my repeated lectures about rolling all the toilet paper off the roll and how that was bad for the trees.

Tonight he was in his now typical book-bargaining mode ("and now I want one MORE book and THEN I'll go to sleep"). We read the one more book and he picked up another and began turning the pages. I took it from his hands and his hands didn't change position. He continued to pretend there was a book in his hand, even made a few page turning motions. He's getting to be so sassy lately! But this was comical, and I had to laugh!

Tonight, after he was asleep, we discovered that Woody and Buzz Lightyear were still in Store Demo mode. We fixed them and their vocabularies and interactions have significantly increased. He's going to find new toys when he wakes up! He'd already memorized everything they said.

Our second day of Christmas was a nice one! We're going to celebrate each night and have a feast on Twelfth Night (Jan 5) while we take down all the decor. Dennis loves that Christmas is still going on--he got another little gift to unwrap today. And Woody and Buzz are sitting in front of his doorway to his room, holding on to his wrapped third day of Christmas gift. It's going to be a fun morning. Luckily, he returns to school on Epiphany (Jan 6), so that'll ease the end of the Christmas festivities!

When we got home tonight--snow in our yard. It DID accumulate! But our trek was a nice one, not a wasted day!