Snow Day

     What an exhausting, but fun day we had today. Josh and I didn't go to bed until 2:00 A.M, and there was no snow in sight.  When we woke up at 8:30 the ground was covered in snow. Ashlyn was so excited! Since I didn't have to go into work tonight, I decided that I would go outside with Ashlyn and build a snowman. I didn't realize how hard of a task this was! I forgot that a snowman required eyes and a nose, so we yelled into the house for Josh to find frosty a nose and eyes. Since Frosty wasn't very big Josh got us a baby carrot for the nose and hard root beer candy for the eyes.
      Not a good idea, the root beer candy started to melt into frosty and made him look like a bloody massacre had occurred. That's when I remembered that a couple of years ago I had received a free snow man kit as a Black Friday special.  Who knew it would actually be used one day!  Our snowman didn't get very big but Ashlyn was proud of it.

    While Ashlyn and I made Frosty, Josh made breakfast! He attempted gravy for the second time this week.  He is getting better, but it still isn't edible! When Josh saw our snowman he thought it was pathetic and decided that he would go outside and help us make a big one. Ashlyn was so excited to help make a big snowman. After 2 1/2 hours Josh and I were finishing up the snowman and Ashlyn had been inside for the past hour watching Sponge Bob. Her helping consisted of her throwing snowballs at us ( she seemed to always find the inch of bare skin showing and hit that spot!), putting holes in my yard with the shovel, and burying her feet in the snow. I am so glad Josh thought this would be a good idea.
     After it was all said and done Frosty looked much better than the baby snowman. It was well worth it when the 3 year old up the street came outside and yelled, " Look Daddy at the beautiful snowman." At least we impressed somebody! Evan even came over to see the snowman as well.   Ashlyn topped Frosty off with her Little League Baseball cap, since we didn't have a top hat.

    To end the blog I will tell one last story of Ashlyn today. While eating supper today Ashlyn was flipping through the Pottery Barn Kids magazine when she closed it shut and said, " Mommy when I have a brother we are going to have to buy a thump bed." I said, " A thump bed? What is a thump bed." She said, " You know two beds where you need a latter." " Oh... you mean a bunk bed," I said. " Yeah that way I can sleep on the top and you can sleep on the bottom with my brother, that way you can still sleep with me." The things that child thinks of!