Long-sleeved baseball shirt, over-the-head blue sweatshirt with the football on the front, zip-up blue sweatshirt with the cars on the front, red coat, blue and gray flannel pants, gray UW sweatpants, white socks, hiking boots, blue and red hat with earflaps, the rainbow mittens that Grammy made, and all the time David saying, “Not that one! That one! Different hat!”

I actually wanted him to wear the gorgeous white snowsuit that my aunt gave Miriam five years ago, but trying to put his legs in a coat freaked him out.

At first David just stared out the window. Then when we got outside he refused to go down the stairs. After I scraped some snow off the railing and made a ball for him, he started to get into it. We walked up and down the block making snowballs. I wanted to make them from the bushes. He wanted me to bend down with my bad back and form them from the grass strip. We made “big snow ball!” And then we “stomped” them.

We said hi to our neighbors out for a coffee and our neighbors even more bundled than David. We stopped in the coffee shop for some steamed milk. We said hi to the doggy out for his first time in the snow. David discovered that snow tastes like ice, and without your mittens on, it is cold. I hope he found it beautiful. I did.