Our First Snowman-

Yesterday, my kids decided they wanted a snowman. My husband started making the ball for the bottom. Notice the leaves mixed in with the snow because we were a little lazy in raking this past fall.

While my husband and Aiden were working on the first ball, Adalaide and I worked on the middle one. By the time we got it rolled over to the first one, I realized how heavy it was gonna be. I bet it weighed atleast 100 pounds, maybe more. It took both me and my husband to lift it. While we were packing snow in between the two parts, Aiden made the head on his own. I was so proud. I still don't know how it ended up with a pointed head though. So, after assembling all the parts I asked the kids how we were gonna decorate it. They decided that we should use play-doh for the face. I found some play-doh to use and my genious mind decided to use a piece of sidewalk chalk for the nose. I made the eyes and mouth and tried to stick it on the face. I guess I completely forgot about the properties of play-doh and snow. Play-doh doesn't stick to snow. So my husband went inside and got some toothpicks to hold it on and it actually worked. The kids found a pink scarf for it too and asked me to put the Play-doh can on his head for a hat. After posing for what seemed like 50 pictures we were done.
(You can see the floodwater behind us in what normally is a dry field. Also, I'm 5'8 and the snowman was about the same height as me.Even taller than me with his pointed head and hat)

Atleast I thought we were done. Then the kids decided we needed a "Hawaii snowman" for their grandma who lives in Hawaii. I ran inside and found a shirt to dress him up. Doesn't his blue Hawaiian shirt match perfectly with the pink scarf??? Finally done!!!!

Later in the day, it warmed up a little and the snowman started to melt some. The eyes and mouth fell off to be later eaten by the neighbor's dog who returned today to leave some nice decorative blue doggy poop right beside my van.

Lesson learned: Play-doh will not stick to snow no matter how crafty you are with toothpicks.