A Silly Bean Snow Day

I was going to make a post about Silly Bean's recent ABCs learning, but yesterday we had a SNOW DAY :)

Silly Bean looooves snowmen! Our friend Jamie brought him this stuffed snowman when she came to visit us back in early November, and even though he had never seen an actual snowman at that point, he loved (and still loves) it so much. When he wakes up, he runs to the living room and yells, "Man man," picks it up, and kisses it.

The first snow of the season was in mid-November, and Silly Bean was not a big fan. After about 5 minutes of standing outside and watching the snow falling he cried to go home, so we took some snow to explore in the warmth of our condo. Silly Bean doesn't touch very many cold things (except for maybe frozen groceries when he helps to put them away), so he was very interested in poking/holding/mashing the snow around with his hands.

Silly Bean was very curious about what it tasted like, and ended up eating most of it before dinner (don't worry, it was clean snow!)!

We began reading books about winter in anticipation of more snow to come, which never really happened throughout December and January. Silly Bean's favorite was one about a snowman of course, called Snowman Magic, by Katherine Tegen.  We didn't get a photo of it, but here's the Amazon photo and link to it:

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We learned about the magic of snowmen, how many of them have carrot noses and button eyes, and how they inevitably melt when the weather gets warmer.

After that, we just never really saw enough snow to do much with, until yesterday! As we watched the snow fall from the window, we talked about how it was a snowman day!

This time, Silly Bean had a grand old time in the snow, which I think just goes to show that sometimes kids (and even adults, I daresay) may need to try something multiple times before deciding that they actually enjoy it. Included in the list of Silly Bean-approved activities was trudging through the snow wearing several pairs of socks in rainboots as well as chucking snowballs at the sidewalk and watching them break. We also built a tiny snowman, to which Silly Bean loudly and gleefully exclaimed, "Man man!" every time we walked away and walked back to look at it. He thought the carrot nose we had given it that we had pulled out of the refrigerator was especially delightful.

Now that the little snowman is all melted and all that remains is a baby carrot in the grass, we can't wait for the next snow day!