First Snowfall of the Year!!!

It was so cold today, but I really didn't think it would snow!!! Well, this afternoon I was watching Oprah (it was her 'favorite things' episode!!) and my friend came over to pick up her little girl, Holly, that was here playing with Sophie for the afternoon. While we were chatting about the new fridge with the TV on it that Oprah gave away the snow started coming down, in big chunky flakes!!! The girls were outside in their bare feet trying to catch snowflakes on their tongues! And of course Peter was right behind them following suit. Peter thought Santa was coming tonight because of the snow. And then Sophie asked if we had missed Thanksgiving! Holly and her mommy left after a few minutes and Sophie wanted to back outside and I said yes. But by the time she found her shoes, and put them on, by herself, the brief but beautiful snowfall had ceased into nothing. She came inside SOOOO disappointed. I was quick to remind her not to be sad and reminded her of our family tradition!

Each year on the first snowfall

we celebrate by going out to ice cream!!!!!!

She was so excited that she couldn't wait for Rich to come home. She wanted to help me make dinner early so that daddy would come home (we always eat like the minute he walks in, so naturally she thought that if we made it now he would come home now. Too sweet) and we could get our ice cream! We waited for what felt like an eternity, ate our dinner and jetted out the door! We went to Dairy Queen and ate the delicious frozen treats. Sophie wanted a chocolate kids cone, Peter a white kids cone, and I had a vanilla cone - dipped in butterscotch, and Rich had a pumpkin pie blizzard. "One of these things is not like the other..." We loved it, but I think Max loved it the best. He tried some of everything. Sophie had a brief moment of sadness when she took her first lick of ice cream and splat - the whole thing fell on the floor. She had big alligator tears and shouted "My ice-cream!!!!!!!!!!", and everyone in the whole restaurant knew what had just happened. It was so sad to watch her. They were so kind and quick to give her a new cone. Thank you Dairy Queen, you saved the night. We ended the night by turning the van around in the middle of the road because Peter realized he had left his guy there. Rich searched everywhere, only to find his guy on the floor by Peter's feet - IN THE VAN!! The things we do for our children. And Sophie asked on the way home when it would snow again so we could come back for ice cream!! Too bad it doesn't work like that....

ps-this turned out to be a really long entry just to tell you we went to ice cream last night because it snowed!! Sorry about that.