Let it snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!

Derek and I woke up this morning to Punky yelling from her bedroom:
"Mommy!  Daddy!  It's wake-up time!"

and then:
"Woooooooow!!!"

and then:
"Buddy, it's Christmas!"

The first snowfall of the season is always very exciting, especially as a kid.  After we reassured Punky that it was unfortunately not Christmas yet, we promised Punky and Buddy we'd play outside later on in the morning.  

I should preface these photos by acknowledging that my kid's winter gear this year is not picture perfect.  Heck, It doesn't even match.  Maybe it was because of the lack of snow last year, but I procrastinated buying appropriate winter clothing for the kid's this year.  Now I am wondering if there is even any winter gear left at the stores.  I bought Punky's winter coat online this year and it isn't as warm as I had hoped.  Luckily, Great Aunt Traci found a cute warm down coat from Baby Gap at a garage sale this summer and bought it for us.  Punky doesn't have coordinating snow pants because I couldn't find the perfect shade of pink to coordinate with her not warm enough coat.  So, a pair of black garage sale snow pants that Traci picked up for Buddy to wear next year does the trick.  Buddy only has knit mittens, not any waterproof ones.  So he got to wear a pair of Punky's pink mittens.  Luckily neither kid knows the difference.  It's just their mama who is bummed that they aren't matchy matchy.  I should just convert these photos to black and white.     

Buddy had a hard time standing up

Snow Angel

Catching snowflakes on her tongue

Buddy was most interested in eating snow