Taking advantage of the snow

After the big storm a couple days ago I took Emma out to pull her around in the sled hoping to get her to go down the pile we made from shoveling the driveway. For some reason she always has to start with a friend on the sled with her, like she's scared to do it by herself. This time it was Tad. After 10 minutes or so Emma realized that she couldn't hold Tad and drag both hands on the ground at the same time. I ended up having to hold Tad (Emma didn't think putting him in the house was a good idea) and pull Emma at the same time. She thought it was cool to gather snow on the way, scoop it up and "nack" on it during the ride.

Once we had gone back and forth in front of the house at least ten times I lost interest and decided it was time to add some excitement. I pulled Emma up the snow bank on the side of the road and into the yard. Immediately I got the squinted eye and shake of the head in disappointment that we had broken off the familiar path that we had already traveled.

I talked her out of the sled when I realized that she wasn't going to be happy with anything but going back and forth. Emma took off down the road in her tractionless snow suit booties. On the way she discovered that she could pick up snowballs much easier without gloves than with them so I end up carrying to mittens and Tad. Two blocks later and near what I thought was going to be hypothermia I had to convince her that the dogs were outside and getting very cold. She had no interest in the fact that she was cold but Cassius and Lewis getting cold had her concerned enough to head back to the house.

I would like to take her to Cherry hill where we both could go down a hill to get some real sledding speed. Unfortunately the next day was rain which turned most of the snow into wet slush that was no good for sledding. Hopefully we have at least one more good storm before the season is over.