'Mama, I crashed the snowman'

We got our first dusting of snow late last week, and Saturday was a good day before the brutal cold of a South Dakotan winter set in. While I ran into lab quickly and Webb was napping happily inside, Westin and Dada played in the snow and made a snowman.

Westin Moore declared that the snowman 'scare-ray' and knocked it over. Really, he often builds things only to knock them over...when I got home from lab, he wanted to show me the snowman, so we walked to the front door, and I saw three distinct snowman balls strewn across the yard. I kind of looked at Westin. He just shrugs his shoulders and says, 'Mama I crashed the snowman'. Well then.

I dunno. That snowman does look a little 'scare-ray'.

Who wants hot chocolate??!!

Off topic: I'm constantly amazed at what Westin understands. He has this toy remote control that makes noise when you push the buttons, except that it doesn't make noise right now, because the batteries need to be changed.

Westin: Dada fix it.
Dalen: What do you need, buddy?
W: Plug it in. Batteries dead.

Dalen then had to explain that those kind of batteries didn't work that way. Seriously. He watches us plug in our iPads and iPhones, and more specifically, when his iPad screen goes black, his iPad gets plugged in to charge the battery. The connections that he's making are unreal! So very very clever!