Snow!

It's February, and we finally have snow. A couple inches every day for a few days in a row. And I have patted myself on the back for being a Good Mom and taking the kids outside to play in it (which requires hours to get them in and out of their snow stuff...ok, maybe not hours...) But I was very handsomely rewarded with happy kids, especially this girl who tells me all the time how much she "loves snow!"

Get ready to be involved in a snowball fight:

 

Here are my angels making angels:

This little guy doesn't quite get what "playing in the snow" means; he just pulls out his car, bike, and other summer toys and wants to play with them. Which is fine by me since I don't have snowpants for him. Eli was also the one who would let us know when it was time to go inside, and his idea of "long enough" often agreed with mine.

And ta-da! Our very first snowman! Can you believe that? Four years old (nearly five) and this is the first snowman creation of the Eldredge children. Illinois snow just doesn't seem to be made for it like Colorado snow. Every winter we've been here and I've seen snowmen in others' yards I've wondered how they accomplished it. I've tried in other years and could get it to work. Even this guy wasn't built the way I learned how (making a snowball and rolling it around until it had picked up tons of snow), but with determination and lots of patting and smooshing.

I'm glad the kids finally got some snow.