cousin playtime in the snow

Seth and I walked over to my sister-in-law's house today so that the cousins could play in the snow together. Seth really doesn't understand the concept of continually walking until we reach our destination. He wanted to stop and play everywhere -- the neighbor's yard, the middle of the street (good thing we live on a not-very-busy-street). Although Seth likes to wear hats for fun, he didn't want to wear his hat outside, even though it was pretty cold today.



Darryl and Amanda's back yard is one big hill, so Gavin and Seth of course went sledding!


Seth wasn't much help with pulling the sled back up the hill, but Gavin did a great job!


Makayla got to sled down once with Mommy :-) Then she just had to observe and get a red, cold nose.


Each time the boys slid down the hill, they seemed to go a little faster. Amanda and I both were holding our breath, hoping they didn't crash into the steps and get hurt. They did bump the steps, but didn't get hurt. Twice when Gavin slid down the hill on his own while Seth was slowly making his way back up the hill, the sled came SO close to plowing Seth right over but BARELY missed him. That cracked us moms up both times.


The boys had some crazy static hair when they came back in the house:


Makayla fell asleep. This girl can sleep through ANYTHING!


After being out in the cold, we definitely needed some hot chocolate and chocolate pudding (Gavin had told Amanda before we got there that he really wanted to share his pudding with Seth -- what a sweet cousin :-).