VT Vacation

We just came back from a wonderful long weekend up in Vermont. Friends of ours have access to an amazing ski house just across the street from Mount Snow. On Friday, Mark spent the day snowboarding. I think Zoe is a little too young to ski just yet, especially since we've just gotten into a groove with potty training, but she really enjoyed checking out the mountain.



Zoe was very impressed with the whole ski operation and really wanted to ride the big ski lift. She told me over and over again, "I yike dat."



However, she was quite annoyed with mommy for taking so many pictures and you can see her her irritation level building in the next couple of pics...


Or perhaps it less about the camera and had more to do with the fact that mommy bundled her in so many layers she couldn't move her arms :-)



On Saturday night, we had a magnificent sleigh ride along a 100-acre farm that led up to a log cabin in the woods. The cabin was lit by oil lamps and heated by an old fashioned wood-burning stove. Zoe was thrilled with the giant horses. Oh...and she was also thrilled to be tromping about in the woods at 9:00 at night...90 minutes past her regular bed time :-)






So we're 30 minutes out into the wilderness in a cabin with no electricity or plumbing and of course, there's the inevitable toddler call of nature. What to do? I figured she had probably had an accident, so I was prepared with new pants etc. But not my girl. Instead, she decided to go outside with Daddy. Two minutes later she came back into the cabin, beaming with pride and shrieking "I made yellow snow!!" That's my girl.

It was a beautiful clear night and Zoe was desperately tying to reach up and grab the moon. She finally asked Daddy to get it for her, but when he said it was too high, she suggested that he get a "yadder." Now why didn't Daddy think of that?




Of course the drive home from the vacation takes a couple of hours, so the bathroom comes into play again. I despise public restrooms and didn't want Zoe touching everything in a nasty rest area potty, so Mommy devised an ingenious plan: put a potty in the car. We put Zoe's little potty in the back seat and pulled over a few times along the way to use it. I can't begin to express how thrilled Zoe was at the novelty of going pee in the car.