Today, we had the second snow of the season. It's been a while, hasn't it! I wasn't feeling that great today, but Melinda's incessant begging caused me to finally force myself to get everyone bundled up to go outside and play. It was the perfect snow for snowballs and snowmen. So, we went ahead and built a snowman. He was standing up so nice and straight when we built him. It was the first thing we did outside. We stayed out for about an hour, also playing with snowballs, and sledding down the hill again (thank goodness both kids were fine with walking back up after the ride down, I was happy to stay perched up on the sidewalk at the top of the hill!). When we came in, the kids had a nice "warming up" bath. When they were dressed again, we wandered back toward the front room and looked out the window - and the snowman was now leaning to the side. A couple hours later, it was getting dark, and the snowman was leaning even further over. We all thought he would fall down any second! Kinda looks impossible in the picture, doesn't it? When Jesse finally got home, he went outside to try and fix it. His attempt resulted in the beheading of Mr. Snowman! (But oh, the kids got a good laugh out of that!!). He quickly made a replacement head, but Melinda wasn't happy that it was smaller than the head he originally had.
Not that it really matters - the snow has already changed over to rain, and it's supposed to rain most of the night and be warmer tomorrow, so the snowman probably won't survive anyway.
Oh, and yes, the snowman has too many sticks. Melinda did the arms, but Jacob wanted to help too, so he gave the snowman a tail. There's also one sticking straight forward out of the bottom snowball... Melinda says that one is a belly button. Of course!
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The tail makes the perfect snowman!!
And of course, you can't have a snowman with out a belly button!!
You're good! It's been snowing ALL day today, and I keep telling them that dad will take them out in the snow tomorrow. I'll be at work! :o)
You're right, you know - Jacob kept calling the snowman "perfect snowman"! LOL.
I basically *had* to take them out today. I knew the rain would make it pretty impossible for them to go out any other time, and who knows when it will snow again. Plus I've let myself be lazy all week... darn pregnancy makes me want to give myself too many excuses.
This is an interesting way to keep in touch. Bless you for loving your kids enough to drag yourself outside, even when you want to stay in. When you were small, we didn't really have warm clothes, cause it snowed so rarely.
You know, since it snowed all of about once last year, I decided not to get much in the way of snow-appropriate clothes for this year. Melinda doesn't have a pair of snow boots - we've just been using some knee-high boots we bought as normal shoes. They're not warm, but they're keeping her toes dry. And we just double up the pants, and when the top layer is soaked through, it's time to go inside. I did buy good coats and hats/mittens, at least, because it can be cold even when it's not snowing. Even still, the weather has been fairly warm overall, so we've mostly been using the inside detachable jackets from the coats, and skipping the hats and mittens.
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