Our Search for Fabulous: snow and sun.

Sunday, February 5, 2012

snow and sun.

As far as Michigan winters go, we've had a pretty mild one so far this year.

[Knocking on wood all over the place.]

We've had a few snow storms, but nothing too bad, and it has melted away completely every time.

And we've had a shocking amount of sunshine.

It is bizarre.

But it sure has been nice.

We're already in February, and I'm not even sick of winter yet.

[Knocking on more wood.]

On our most recent snowfall a while ago, we took Carly out on her new little $5 sled.

The problem with Michigan is there aren't very many hills, and we didn't want to go too far, so we kept it classy and tied a rope to the sled and Chris pulled Carly around in our little front "yard". It worked out perfectly, and lasted just about as long as Carly's snow-tolerance span.

[snow buddies.]

She was giggling wildly.

It was pretty darn cute.

That's as much snow fun we've had.

I'm not a huge play-in-the-snow person, and so far it looks like Carly might have gotten that gene.

But maybe when she's a bit older she'll enjoy sledding with daddy.

If we can find a hill.

Much better than the snow, however, has been the sunshine.

We've had a few periods of sunshine and "higher" temperatures.

Like this weekend, for example.

The zoo here is free from November through February, so I've been waiting for a nice day to go.

Chris's parents came to town this weekend, and we got a beautiful Saturday, so we headed out to see the animals.

We had a nice time.

Carly liked the animals, but she doesn't linger.

We'd look at one animal for a little bit, and she'd say "more animals!"

So we kept up a decent pace.

I'd have to say she particularly enjoyed the otters swimming around bouncing off rocks (as did we all, they were very cute), the yak (go figure), and of course the daddy lion, who did some sort of cough-growl to show off for her.

[watching the otters do flip-turns.]