Snow Day

Today was snow day (winter fling) at Josh's school. The school hauls in a lot of snow for the kids to play and slide on. There was another area where lots of other activities are held. We did penguin bowling, drank hot chocolate, and "ice skated". The one area Josh refused to do was the snow goo, a mixture of cornstarch and water. He finally played with it when I gave him a spoon. I guess he is just adverse to messy, gooey stuff. It was cool that his teacher gave me an update that Josh is interacting more and saying hello while looking at the person which she attributes to his SMILE program. She said that Josh doesn't obsess as much over doors (opening & closing them) so that is very good. I've hidden the kids' Gameboys because lately they've been fighting over the same games and Josh was always playing. So far, they haven't been missed so they have to find other things to play with.

See? We used paper plates as the ice skates, taped them on and let the children skate away. Pretty clever. Joshua mostly ran around instead of sliding but he had lots of fun.

But the best part was the snow area. I put on ski pants, snow boots and a long sleeve shirt on Josh. I packed a jacket in his backpack but we ended up not using it. Today turned out to be very warm which was really nice but most of the kids were sweating. Joshua loved making snowballs and throwing them at the snowman target. There were a couple of people pulling kids around on sleds which Josh got to ride a couple of times. The main attraction was the little hill set up for sliding so of course there was a long line. Once Josh went down the first time, he was hooked. As soon as he was out, he disappeared. When we found him, he had cut in line and was ready to slide down again! That little stinker!