FINALLY.....a snowman!

First, a delightful picture of Maira (even though it looks like she is being tortured, she is actually in the middle of saying CHEESE!!! for me!)

All winter (if you can call this despicable stretch of months since November WINTER) Callum has been DYING to build a snowman--part of this is imbue from his love of Christmas, and the other part is directly derived from his immense love of Raymond Briggs' THE SNOWMAN book. This winter has absolutely sucked for snow. But, finally, last night, we got a hefty amount (even though the forecasters got is WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY wrong. Again. The timing. The amount. The start and stop. Basically everything.). It was a VERY wet and heavy snow, which wreaked havoc on the ATV and plow today...but was the best type of snow for building a snowman. I havent seen the kid this happy in weeks. It was the best hour of my whole week. Minus the hour I grinded with Marylin at the louncchhge.......

So proud. So happy. You have no idea how much this kid loves this snowman.

Hub Glass hat cuz that is where Papa worked. Two rosehips from our wintering Rugosa Rose bush for eyes. An orange for a nose (just like in the Briggs book). A wool scarf. Arms made from the tree that fell in our yard due to the snowstorm we just had.

Even though it is a snowMAN, Callum wanted me to make it very clear that it is, in fact, a "mumma" snowman. So it is a female snowman who has given birth at one time or another....or something....

Yeay America, says the mumma snowman.....