*Escapades in the Snow*

January is so boring in St. Louis. My wonderful meteorologist tells me weekly to expect snow. However, for some reason the snow storms decide to go just north of just south of St. Louis, depriving me of all that beautiful snow. Do you know how many times it has actually snowed? Like twice. The first time I would hardly call it snow. It was more a light dusting. However, the second time was more like it. Now I know that the rest of the Midwest got tons of snow, but we just recently enjoyed our first snow of the year. (At least it was the first in my mind.) In comparison to what the rest of the Midwest got, we had very little snow. Never fear! It was enough to play and that's all that mattered.

Garrett and I set off on our adventure in the late afternoon. The temperature had risen from its bitterly cold 0 degrees to a balmy 20 degrees. This made me want to sing a little something like this, "Havin' a heat wave. A tropical heat wave. The temperature's rising. It isn't surprising. She certainly can can-can!" Okay, okay, back to business. But I was singing that song in the snow. Anyway, Garrett took off down the hill, or at least he thought he was going to take off. He went smack right down on the snow and the sled did not go anywhere. I was laughing my butt off. Oh it was very entertaining.

Then finally he figured it out and then he really was off.

I wanted to take Achilles on a ride. Little buddy jumped on my lap and away we went.

All the way down the hill.

We also got Achilles a new toy. We call him Super-Duck-or-Chicken-or-Whatever- the-Little-Thing is. There was quite a bit of playing involved there.

We played until we were cold and decided it was time to go in, but that's when Achilles decided he didn't want to go in. I think Rachel would call him the Escape Artist. (haha) Achilles took off down the street, and Garrett and I chased him for awhile then gave up. Eventually, the little bugger came back. Needless to say...someone was in big trouble.

At last, we were all inside and toasty warm. The weather has since been pleasantly warm. (Unusual for January) It has been a nice break from the bitterly cold weather that we have been having.

Until next time!

Lots of Love!

~A