A Snowy Day
Greetings to everyone.
Yesterday the Denver area actually had a measurable amount of snow fall, the first real snow of the season. Though Xavier went to school, they did not get to have recess outside. Instead, they had it in the gymnasium.
Xavier was home today, and Fridays are clean the house day with Mom. However, not having a proper amount of outdoor time and equipment to burn off his building boy energy, Xavier turned his attentions to other things, making clean the house a more difficult task than usual.
I took Xavier aside and whispered "Go ask Mommy if she would like to play in the snow with you."
Off he went. He found Mom in the kitchen and asked her for a carrot. Somewhat confused, it took Rebecca a few minutes of conversation to understand what Xavier intended (at first Rebecca got excited that Xavier asked for carrots to eat).
Once they reached an understanding, Mom agreed to play in the snow. Twenty minutes later, they both had dressed in suitable cold weather clothing.
Outside they went. The snow had accumulated to about two inches and the mid morning temperature had not risen enough to do much melting. Together, they worked at clearing a small sidewalk. We bought Xavier his snow shovel last year. One of the best six dollars we spent on him in 2015.
Easily conquering the eight feet of sidewalk, both mom and son set out to shovel the lawn. Xavier really got into this activity. He did not yet realize what mom intended, however.
The snow had started getting wet enough to stay in packed balls. Using their shovels, mom and Xavier pushed enough snow into piles to build their snowman. At last, the earlier asked for carrot had a place to go.
The project was a success. Xavier and mom had fun together. Xavier burned off some pent-up energy. Later in the day, however, the snowman fell over. Seeing a rabbit near the toppled snowman, Xavier was convinced the rabbit knocked over the snowman to get at its carrot nose.
