Frosty

It seems that only in Edmonton could you have a blog post about the playground and just a couple of weeks later one about building a snowman but, here we are.  Last week we got our very predictable but nonetheless annoying annual spring snow storm.  Funny enough, these snow storms always are the most exciting for children born and raised in Edmonton where it is too cold for sticky snowman snow in the real winter months.  Luckily my Mom had purchased a fun snow man kit right as the season was ending so I zipped over there in the hopes that it would keep the kids entertained outside.  I was not disappointed when they spent a couple of hours outside building their beloved "Frosty"

Then they spent the next hour coloring the rest of the yard.

Poor little Violet was stuck inside watching all the fun but it didn't seem to bother her too much.  

On a sentimental side note, as I was busy making dinner I stopped to watch Violet squeal and bang her little hands on the glass as she watched her older siblings.  It made my heart ache a little bit to think that this will be our last little baby to stand on chubby little legs and make messy little fingerprints all over the windows.  Before long she'll be out running and playing with the rest of them.

The next morning when the sun woke us all up, shining full force, it was evident that Frosty would not last the day.  Lillian got all of her snow gear on before 7:30 and went out to say her goodbyes.  

It's kind of hard to tell, but in this picture she is shaking his "hand"

and in this one she's giving him a kiss.

Then she dismantled him.

Here's hoping my next pictures will be of newly planted flowers that won't be destroyed by another spring snow storm.