Grocery bags as snow pants

Just a friendly reminder to my southern friends that if you don't have snow gear, you can make your own with plastic bags! It's easier done with little kids (see here, here, here, and here). But I'll probably be fashioning myself a nice pair of plastic pants tomorrow so I can go out with the kids.

Here's skeptical Benjamin rocking a pair of snow pants in 2014:

Once we had him all bundled up he had a good—dry and warm—time outside in the snow!

Here's Benjamin (much less skeptical, much more excited) in a pair of grocery bag snow pants in 2015:

You can't even tell he's wearing grocery bags once he's all decked out! I think the important thing to remember is footie jammies first, then the plastic bags, then the outer layers.

It's even easier for smaller babies! You just (responsibly) shove their entire little person into a grocery bag! Here's wide-eyed Alexander getting ready to head out into the snow in 2018:

He's got socks on his tiny fingers to keep them warm (and we didn't keep him outside too long, anyway—if we lived in an actually cold place where babies napped outside, for example, we'd probably have actual cold weather gear for babies...but we live in a place that is typically warm...so we don't have such things). He did just fine in the cold for the little while he was out there.

Here's our sweet Phoebe-cakes getting the same royal treatment in 2022:

She has actual teeny mittens on, too (none of this socks-on-hands stuff for her):

This picture is of Zoë in 2016 and I'm fairly certain she has a grocery bag on her underneath this get-up (though I didn't document my efforts):