Snow on Stone St.

When we talked about our Advent activities, the one thing Kayci requested every time was to make "snow."  This is an activity I used to do in my classroom, and our first winter here, when we had the big ice storm and James got stuck in Austin and we were homebound for a few days, I introduced it to Kayci and now it's one of her favorite "winter" activities.  So, today I kept our afternoon clear for snow...

Here's Kayci, working hard at making the tp pieces small enough...

Here's Noble, being Noble--he just moves too darn fast for the camera...

What's cool about this year is that it's the first time Kayci's actually used the snow dough as a sculpting compound...the past 2 years, she's just played with it like play dough (it's fun to put it in a ziploc in the fridge so it gets cold!!).  Today when it was all mixed up, she went right to work making a snowman...then went back and forth to the office and kitchen gathering materials to "dress" him.  She even clipped the ends of the satin ribbon to look like a scarf, which I thought was genius!  So, meet Tra Li La Li, or Tra Li La for short.  :)  He's now sitting on a fun snowman plate as the centerpiece on our dining room table...darn it, Grandma, we had to move that gorgeous gingerbread house into Kayci's room.  Shucks!