First off, let’s start out with some photos of Ezra. Typically he closes his eyes when he smiles for a photo. I asked him not to and we had a good laugh at the results. Also, I love how we have a memory of Ezra’s love of putting shirts either inside out or backwards. He is currently wearing a firetruck shirt inside out and I keep saying “I want to see the firetruck.” and he replies “But I like it next to my belly!”
The past few weeks in Ottawa were miserable in the sense that we had freezing rain and then it was a little tough navigating streets and having a fun time outside. Even the sledding hill in the front yard was caked in ice which made it very hard.
But then Thursday dumped 20cm (if not more? I had to snowblow the driveway twice that day) which took the ice away and left us with the winter wonderland we always hope for.
Saturday was pretty cold so I stayed inside and cleaned a bit and made a warm lunch for the family while they enjoyed some sledding outside in the yard. But it was -20 so that didn’t last long.
Later in the afternoon after Ezra and I had a nap, we ventured outside to try out our snowshoes around the yard. Ezra was quite good in his bigfoot type snowshoes! Pretty stable overall.
Do you want me to do a smiley face or a silly face Daddy?
For a few weeks Sierra had a loose tooth and she would put the drain stopper down in the sink in fear of losing her tooth. Sure enough after brushing her teeth she spit and out came her tooth! I believe this is her third tooth she lost and the tooth fairy brought her three coins.
Ezra is really enjoying this fish game and he’s getting pretty good at it!
On Sunday morning Vero decided to go snowboarding on her own at Mont Rigaud so we decided to try out our snowshoes at the Larose Forest. Again, it was -20 out so I knew we wouldn’t stay long but it’s nice to hop in the car and go outside for a bit.
We didn’t make it too long along the trail before Sierra wanted to trek through the woods and blaze her own trail. Ezra wasn’t having too much fun tripping as you can see by his facial expression here.
We didn’t make it too far away from the parking lot before the kids were getting cold and wanted to head back. Luckily I had some hot chocolate on hand so we sat on a snowbank and enjoyed that. Poor Ezra burnt his tongue on the first sip so we learned how to cool our drinks in the snowbank. Sierra was surprised at how fast hot chocolate becomes cold chocolate when in the snow.
Winter in Ottawa is a hit and miss sometimes…you never know when next week will bring tropical temperatures and take away all the snow so we like venturing out fast to have fun in the snow before it’s gone.