Little ones outside

[sunnydays]

Oh yes, I feel your pain! I have to take my son to the bus in the mornings, so I have to get everyone dressed and out...6 including my daughter (plus my son, but he gets himself ready). I have it down to about 20 minutes to get everyone dressed and into my six seater stroller, but it is a workout for sure and not enjoyable. Once we get my son onto the bus, if it is not colder than -15 with the windchill, we play outside because I don't want all that dressing to be for nothing! We have cleared a big area in our front yard for the kids...there are snow mountains all around it because we live on a corner lot and the plows deposit all their snow there. The bigger kids love to climb the mountains and slide down and I bring little play dishes out for them to cook snow food, also provide shovels and a sled and sometimes food colouring and water in spray bottles to paint the snow. The two 16 month olds in my care have a hard time walking in their boots even when the snow is well cleared. I have to exersaucers on my front porch where they can sit and babble to each other...that helped a lot earlier in the winter and now they are starting to be able to play a little bit on the packed snow. I always bring a chair so I can sit and hold one on my lap or they can use it to hang onto. I guess I am glad in a way that I have to get them all out for the bus run in the morning, because we play outside a lot on days when I might not have gone to the effort otherwise.