"Forky"

Can you believe it, SNOW!! Riley was so worried that all the snow would melt while we were at church. But it didn’t and as soon as we got home and grabbed a quick bite to eat, we headed out into our backyard.

After some thrown snowballs and a couple of snow angels, Riley had to make a snowman. There wasn’t a lot of snow, and so he had to be smaller then the average snowman, but a wonderful snowman all the same. And with Riley’s “elephant brain”, he remembered the wonderful gift that Fabulous Aunt Janet gave me last year for Christmas, a snowman kit complete with carrot nose, pipe, buttons, eyes, and a matching scarf and hat, of course. After I got it last year, it never snowed enough for us to make a snowman until yesterday, and luckily Riley’s brain never forgets anything, so we were able to use it for the first time.

We used all the snowman parts, but Riley thought he still needed arms and legs, so Phil found some twigs, and once they were in place, Riley dubbed the snowman “Forky”, since with the twigs sticking out of him, he resembled a fork. (So Riley says.)

Wesley, loved to help, and seemed to be the only one oblivious to the fact that snow is actually really cold. But that didn’t bother Wesley, and he was very disappointed when we finally went inside because the rest of us wanted to warm up a little.