Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!

At 6:30 this morning Emma and Max were about bouncing off the walls,

"It snowed! It snowed!"

Max wanted to get dressed and go outside. Emma wanted to make a "noman". I just wanted to go back to bed. (I wish I could be excited when it snowed.) I started to stress out that the kids didn't have gloves for school. (I should say, they HAVE gloves, it's just chances are they didn't put them away.) I was right. The frantic search for gloves began. I managed to find two right-hand gloves (one green the other black). Where their matches are is a mystery. After searching some more, I remembered that my mom had given me some clothes recently that had a couple pairs of gloves in it. I brought them out and Max was happy but they were too girlie for Cole. So, finally after about an hour of searching, Jake gave up his.

I don't know what it is with gloves and socks in my family! I hate that they are things we need because my children have the dangdest time keeping track of them! Anyway...The kids all got off to school and things calmed down.

Emma kept wanting to go out to make a "noman" all day. She spent most of the day looking out the window. Unlike last year when she hated the snow, today she was facinated. She couldn't wait to go outside!

Finally, after lunch, we ventured out in the cold snow

to make our "noman".

(Notice the big gloves. Her gloves mysteriously disappeared also!)

The snow was too wet and had already started to melt by then so we made a tiny "noman". We found sticks for the arms, used two pennies for the eyes and a blade of grass for the mouth.

(Like I said, it was tiny! )

I showed Emma how to make a ball and she made the head. She was proud!

It was the cutest little "noman" ever!

Then we took a walk to the mailbox and made footprints on all my neighbors' lawns. (Emma really liked that!)

It was so cold so we went in after that but

she sure was happy!