3-year-old on skis

After a few days of low-key winter sports including snow hikes in knee-deep snow and sledding with Uncle Graham pulling saucer-riding Will down a gentle hill, we finally made it up to Beaver Creek and got Will on skis for the first time. He was soon skiing "all by myself" on this slope, which while it might not look like a slope had just enough incline that Will was cruising solo at high enough speed to make me slightly nervous.

Owen, sporting sun glasses for the first time in his life, enjoyed looking on from his daddy pouch.

After our hour on the "slopes," we visited with some reindeer. Notice Uncle Graham interrogating the not-pictured reindeer keeper about the size and origins of these reindeer (we learned that females are about 200 pounds smaller than males -- just small enough to make them pettable for a sometimes animal-leery kid like Will).