Yes, we have very little of real winter to experience here in Tejas. Usually "winter" means temperatures in the 40s and everybody rushes to the mall to buy a sweater since they packed away the one from last year in March. When Sarah and I visited Ft. Worth the February after Jamie was born it snowed the night we got there and it was cold the whole weekend so the snow stuck. In our minds now Ft. Worth, since we've never been back, is like Canada. But we had never seen it snow in Houston until...The Blizzard of 08!!!!!!!!!! OK, that's overstating it, but after threatening all day, it snowed for about 3 hours tonight. We had been telling Jamie all day that it might, and we were beginning to despair of it happening while the boys were still up, but about an hour before bed it started. We rushed to put warm clothes on in the fear that it would stop before we could get outside.
But it just started snowing harder. The boys were immediately screaming with delight and I can't say that Sarah and I were much less excited. We walked to get the mail and around the block and Jamie squealed with with delight and announced every flake that went into his eye, nose, ears and mouth. Connor proclaimed "'now AWESOME"!
And then almost immediately said "Want go home!" Seems he was cold. We offered Jamie to stay outside and play some more and he said, "No that's OK. My hands are freezing! I want to go in too." Ah, these boys are just not conditioned to the cold.
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The world is very strange Leo. That must have been the storm that dumped snow on Mississippi, ice all over Massachusetts, and a deluge of just rain here. You get snow, we get rain, and the world is turned upside down.
Jaime probably does not remember playing in the snow with me when he was a baby!
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