I was basically the only one in our family to actually enjoy this event this year, but i'm determined to make you all appreciate it as much as me. Real snow piles! train rides! fire truck rides! santa! bouncy houses! donuts! hot chocolate! i mean, need i say more? here is the thing....neither of you ladies like the cold. and when one of you will only wear her fancy black ballet flats (ahem, stella) your feet will not stay warm for longer than 1 minute while standing in a snow pile. although, stella, you did think the snow was cool for a bit before becoming chilled to the bone.
in a very amateur move, i send dad home to get stella some boots, as if that were the ONLY problem we were having, and surely if stella had boots on then both girls would quit crying and just love playing in the snow. please. but in my stubbornness, i set to make you all tough it out for at least 10 minutes before we called it quits. i thought surely a train ride would make you happy. i was wrong. jane, you were so upset the whole ride! so then we tried the bouncy house. this is when stella lost it. i'll admit, taking your shoes and jacket off to go in the bouncy house was a bad idea. this is when i gave up and we went and sat by the curb waiting for dad to come back. i was sitting there with one of you on each leg, a blanket over all of us, and you two screaming your heads off. it was quite a scene. i do have to admit, it was cooooold that day. 36 degrees and drizzling. it was a bit much.
we grabbed some donut holes and hot chocolate before leaving which eased some of the pain, and then bundled you both up best we could and blasted the heat. then met some friends for a delicious lunch that ended with an ice cream cone. because what we really needed on a cold wintery day was ice cream.
in an attempt to capture every emotion of the event, i have posted every picture i took.
xo