Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

So, after the terrible drive home on Christmas, we were left with about 6-9 inches of snow out in front of my house. Which is a huge pain when I have to shovel, but it's amazing for Blue, who got to play in it several times yesterday and today.

She got all bundled up and ran outside. She hasn't been able to play in the snow, but maybe once in her life before, so her excitement was epic. She took off running, then just fell over, landing on her face in the soft snow. It was hysterical. She laid there for a minute, then she rolled over and made a snow angel. Then she got up, surveyed her work, found it satisfactory, and moved along to the next task, making a snowball. She found that impossible with this snow, so she threw it up in the air instead, making it seem like it was snowing on her. Then, she started running back and forth, falling every so often just for the sake of falling. She took some time to get on her belly and scoop snow into a pile using her whole self. Then she made some more snow angels.

It was only about ten minutes before she had to come in and thaw out. So the next time she got to go outside, she had a plan. She started building a little igloo. She's making a pile of snow, carrying it painstakingly from other areas to the one area she's chosen, then piling it and patting it down solid. (This igloo will have no room inside, I think. Just a couple little dents where the doors should be.) Then she'd go pick some up from somewhere else and bring it to the spot, then get some from somewhere else... and so on. By the time she was done and had to come in, it was about the size of a bottle of laundry detergent.

Then, today when we went out, there were a bunch of geese out there. (I'm not sure if I've mentioned the geese. The Poshlands are full of geese. Overrun by them. Our sidewalks are covered by goose crap and you can't drive through here without having to stop and wait for geese to cross the road.) Anyway, there were geese out today, and Blue took great pleasure in throwing snow puffs at them, then chasing them away, watching them fly off in a great blast of snow.

Once all that mischief was done, she made some more snow angels, then she found some  big chunks of hard snow by the street. She threw those at the wall until they exploded all over her, covering her with snow and making it look like she was a snow beast herself!

All in all, the white Christmas turned out pretty well for our little Blue, I think. She's already scheming for tomorrow, but won't tell me her plans. ;)