Abominable? No. Adorable? Yes!

Heidi is of the age that this isn't her first winter of being bundled from head-to-toe, but it is the first one that she remembers. Which is maybe good since she hated it with a passion last year. This year, we've added the challenge that she knows how to walk, but must learn how to rewalk in a full body zoot suit and thick winter boots. Not to mention who knows how to use our hands when they're shoved inside of a mitten.

But we live in Wisconsin, so she better get used to it. And I think she pulls off the look quite well.

Here she is at the park. She's looking up at a couple of birds that were on a wire. She became quite obsessed with them actually. [Sidenote: we went to the park again tonight and she seemed disappointed that the birds were no longer on the wire--I told her I did not know where they had gone.]

This is probably one of my all-time favorite pictures of my girl. The sun beaming behind her head and bundled all up. She looks like she's just begging for a squeeze!

You can see, she figured out the mobility in the snowsuit and did some tunnel crawling. One of her favorite games is to push her face out the holes in the side of the tunnel--particularly if Mom has hers pressed in from the outside.

Too sweet for words

And here you can see her taking her first tentative steps in the snowsuit. She also ripped a mitten off. I foresee a long winter of putting mittens back on.