First Snow, A New Camera and No Internet Connection!

DH came home with a new toy for me the other day - a palm-sized digital camera that I can fit in my purse and take anywhere for those little candid moments that I've been lamenting I never seem to get on film. So now I have no excuses! Then again, having loaded the wonderful new software onto my laptop, I lost my internet connection and being less than computer savvy, I had to have DH fix it for me this morning. Anyway, all's well that gets fixed in a timely manner, right? So here goes....




These are all pictures of the itty bitty snow that we had yesterday. I woke up at 7:30 and there was absolutely nothing - not a single speck, so I crawled back into bed. At around 8:00, though, the first flakes started falling and by 8:30 we were lightly covered in white stuff. It was really pretty. The mini enjoyed her first snow. Last year she wasn't interested (and I don't think we actually got any snow last year anyway). When she came to our bedroom to wake us up, she stopped at the window in the upstairs hallway and said, "Mommy, it's snowing! I'm so excited!" She was so overjoyed that she started to clap her hands, and jump up and down amid squeals of delight, declaring "Oh! I LOVE SNOW!" When I took her outside for a few minutes before we left for school she got a chance to actually play in it and feel it on her skin. But my little girl is nothing if not prissy - as soon as she realized that it was really cold and wet, she wanted to go back inside. I think she likes to admire the weather from the safety of our nice dry house. I really don't have a girl-scout in the making, do I? That's okay, though. She still thought it was pretty and was excited by it. Of course, by the time I picked her up from school, the snow had stopped and turned to cold, hard rain. She greeted me at her classroom door by saying, "Mommy, where's the snow? It's raining." Hopefully we'll get more snow before spring arrives!