It Snowed: Day 5 AM

When we woke up this morning, smothered with kisses and requests for water, we were greeted by a beautiful winter scene from our apartment. It snowed. After breakfast and some play time, we bundled Grace up in three layers of pants, her new boots, coat, and gloves and took her out to walk in the snow. As soon as we said, "Otivame snow" she asked us if we were going on the airplane. This is a daily question that we can only barely try to answer with "po kasno...dve den" which we think should mean "later...2 days." I don't think she understands, but we feel better that we tried to explain.

She didn't know what to do in the snow. We touched it and she just looked at us. Then we made a snowball, but she just threw it down. We walked around the corner from our apartment and another little Bulgarian girl, who was having the same reaction to the snow, was out with her grandfather. The two girls smiled at each other, but they both seemed confused. Then Grace saw a playground and wanted to swing on the snow packed wooden swing, so I put her up there since she could hardly move in all of those clothes. After a few swings she saw a slide and climbed up and slid down like she was going down a hill without the sled. She liked walking in the deep snow and stomping her boots, but I am sure that she has never been outside when it is cold before. We stayed out less than half an hour even though it was calm and beautiful because we didn't want her to get too cold. She was toasty when we took off her coat and gloves. We asked the grandfather if we could take a photo of the two girls and he was thrilled. Here are the two cuties:

It was so nice that we didn't have to go anywhere today. Here are a few more pictures from this morning:

Banitsa for breakfast

A beautiful view from the 6th floor.

My sweeties

A snowgirl?

Hmmm...What is this?

Daddy, I need a swingset!