Snow!

Last week the temperature FINALLY got above freezing (36 degrees! So warm!) so one day we took advantage of the warmth and went outside to play in the snow. 

I grabbed Nikolai's sand box shovels and he had a blast wandering around scooping up snow. 

While he scooped, I packed some of the abundant snow in our courtyard and recreated our little family in snow.

After a while I wanted to go in but Nikolai, who hasn't been outside in 2 months (ack!), wanted to continue playing, so we wandered around some more. 

We scooped some more snow, played on this bench...

Finally, after an hour, I noticed that Niko's pants were totally soaked (how on earth did I not remember that he has snow pants?!) so I tried to coax him inside. 

At this point he realized we were heading in towards the apartment and froze, not wanting to go in. The jig was up!

Luckily, I managed to make it some sort of game so he followed me. 

(I think I probably said, "One, two, three..GO!" and made him run with me on go. My favorite part of that game is when he initiates it himself--he'll stand in a corner and say to himself "two, twee, two, twee...GO!" and just start running. ADORABLE. But I digress).

Anyways, it was lovely to get outside and soak up some Vitamin D. Hopefully it warms up again soon so we can play some more!