If You Build It, They Will Tear It Down

So it finally snowed today. The first REAL snowfall of the year (and the winter is almost over...hopefully). Owen got out of school early, so we picked up a couple of his friends (Oliver and Porter), and headed out to build a snowman. All of them seemed to know what a snowman was, but had never built one. So despite some extremely short attention spans, I attempted to teach them the art of building the perfect snowman.

The snow was absolutely ideal for snowman building and snowball throwing, very abnormal for NYC. We were some of the first people to the park, so with yards and yards of pristine snow we (I) set to work. In about 15 minutes we had a beautiful 5ft something snowman. Classic size and shape. Oliver had even brought a carrot from home, and there just happened to be some perfect sticks laying around the area.

The Masterpiece

Putting on the finishing touches...

Oliver, Porter & Owen

The Snowman lived for about 45 seconds before the boys completely destroyed it, as if that was the entire purpose for building it. All that was left was the bottom, which was too heavy for the three of them to smash, but perfect for jumping off. All in all it was a great day.

Oliver jumping off the remains of the Snowman