After Jacob came over today Mom fled for the safety of her cubicle. After much whining about no TV or computer games Jacorobwin decided to play Yu-Gi-Oh, a role playing card game.
Charles was still distressed at Mom having left. As she was getting her coat on, Charles took her over to the coat rack and pointed at his coat. He started crying when Mom told him that he couldn’t go along. He took me over a bit later and was upset again when he didn’t get his coat. He was so sad that I put his coat on and that made him very happy. Eventually, though, Charles wanted to actually go outside. He was a bit taken aback when we went out the garage door and the car wasn’t there, but he recovered once Dad got out the shovels for the snow. Charles likes to work on the snow. Dad cleared the walk while Charles moved snow around.
After a bit Jacorobwin came out and decided that they wanted to play with shovels and snow as well so we had the whole gang out there moving snow. However, since Jacorobwin had neglected to put on coats (Corwin had actually tried to come out without shoes at first until Jacob explained that wearing them would be a good idea) they got cold after 20 minutes or so and went back inside, demanding hot chocolate with peppermint candy canes. Even though this pushed the limits of Dad’s culinary skills, he was able to come through.