Mommy’s Snowman!

Snow! We got snow, finally!  There was enough for Bill to finally fire up his snow blower.  It worked like a charm, of course.  But the kids still wanted to help out.  We got all bundled up in their snowpants – which I was proud of searching out and buying in like, NOVEMBER! They’d been just hanging there, as if they were saying “wear me.” But until today, there was no reason to!

We made snow angels!

Went down the slide!

And made a snowman!

Okay, I made the snowman while the kids threw snow at each other, but they still were proud and called it their own.  The snow wasn’t quite sticky enough to roll into a ball at first, so we used a mound the neighbor had plowed into our yard as a base and shaped that into the lower two balls first.  Then I was able to get a ball rolled enough for a head.

After about an hour outside, their cheeks were rosy enough to say we were done.  Neither one of them ever said it was cold or had problems with snow anywhere it shouldn’t have been!  Their mittens held up well and so did mine. I couldn't have asked for it to be any more fun!