Snow Much Fun

We took advantage of the few inches of snow that we got this weekend and had some snow fun.
This was Ava's first time playing in the snow. We bundled her up and just let her go. She took to it immediately, sloshing around in her snow boots.
Here she is waving to the camera...you can see the snowman that we were building in the background...actually Chris did most of the building. I did the decorating. We used Chris' hat, an old scarf, rocks for the eyes, sticks for the arms we found in the field across the street, mulch pieces for the mouth and buttons and a baby carrot for the nose...I guess we just don't buy the regular sized carrots anymore. Anyway, it was the perfect snow for making a snowman.
Once we let Ava take her mittens off she couldn't get enough of picking up the snow. She enjoyed adding handfuls of snow to the snowman as her contribution.
Daddy and Ava next to our snowman. We built the snowman close to the house to deter neighbor kids from knocking it down.

I'm sorry to report that by the time Chris left for work this morning it was demolished...how rude! We're not going to let it damper our spirits - we'll be rebuilding tonight - but this time in the backyard. Ava will be able to look at it more through the back door this way anyway - until it dies a more natural death - via melting! UPDATE: We won't be rebuilding after all - it's TOO cold and the snow is too hard. That's okay though. At least we have our pictures to remember him by. ;) It just makes you wonder why kids do that kind of stuff! Oh well. Luckily, Ava isn't old enough to be sad about it and recognize that it's still supposed to be there. We did notice that almost all of the snowmen in the area were also knocked down...someone must've gone on a snowman rampage...so sad.