We Finally Made a Snowman

Much earlier in the winter, we went outside to play in the snow and tried to make a snowman. It was too cold, and the snow wouldn’t pack.

After more than three months of temperatures too cold to go outside and play:

Still looks pretty darn cold, doesn’t it? On Saturday it was. We tried again to make a snowman and ended up making… a lumpy pile of snow. We couldn’t get the snow to pack well because it was too cold. Again.

So, the girls played in the puddles instead (of course).

I was determined to have a snow man at first, so I did not proceed to the puddles initially.

But it wasn’t happening (^^ obviously), and I couldn’t resist abandoning the snowman to play and splash.

I’m glad I did, because yesterday we ended up having the perfect day for snowman building. We were able to do the roll-and-pack move to make the body parts.

Miss made the head all by herself and was so proud.

I’ve mentioned before that my Dad is quite artistic, and once made a snowman in the shape of a bust of Abraham Lincoln. I had a passing thought as I was trying to pile snow up into some sort of “snowmannish” shape on Saturday that maybe I could create something like he did, since the roll-into-three-balls-for-a-body-and-head technique wasn’t working out for us. Yeah. Not so much (the lump on the right is the attempt from Saturday).

The finished product from Sunday’s efforts:

It’s no Abraham Lincoln, but I love it, and Miss was very proud.

It was nice and warm (which means above freezing around here at this time of year), so we stayed out and played until dinner called us in.

It’s over 50 degrees today (!!) so the snowman has already melted and fallen apart. But we made a snowman! We went outside! I can feel a tiny hint of spring in the air (very tiny). We’re so ready.