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Snow - anyone else's children seeing it for the first time?

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Meid · 08/01/2003 10:09

My dd has just seen snow for the first time. She doesn't really know what to make of it so I hope it settles so we can build a snowman and have fun (like I used to when I was a kid)!

Is anyone else in the same part of the world as me (South East London) and what are your children's reactions?

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willow2 · 08/01/2003 10:25

Absolute joy!! Ds is 2 and 3/4 so while it has snowed before he has no recollection of it. It snowed in SW London on Monday night so yesterday was spent making tiny snowmen (he used dead baby snail shells for the eyes... gross) and throwing as many snowballs as possible before his hands went blue. It is now Wednesday and it is chucking snow down - so foresee more of the same. Enjoy!

SoupDragon · 08/01/2003 10:37

Yes, DS2 (22 months) hasn't seen it before and I'm not sure DS1 remembers even though his 1st 2 Christmases were white.

They have both taken to it really well though - I had to drag them in a couple of days ago when I got too cold and miserable!! It's been snowing here all morning too (S London/Surrey borders) and we're just about to wrap up and get out in the garden.

manna · 08/01/2003 11:14

lovewly, lovely, lovely!!! I live 5 mins from Hyde Park and have just returned from it with ds - 13mths. He loved it, met 2 other kids and we bui
lt a small snowman, named sticky. So, if anyone goes to hyde Park today via the Italian Fountain entrance opposite Lancaster Gate tube, look out for sticky on your way in

I am almost obsessed with snow - wonder if it's my Swedish father?

CookieMonster · 08/01/2003 11:15

I'm in Yorkshire ... we had snow last Friday and that was dd's first time (22 months) that she will remember. She was desperate to go outside in it and was quite happy to stamp around but wouldn't touch it with her hands. She was also thrilled with the snowman that dh built - because it has been so cold it is still there and we have to say night night to him every bedtime!!

Bozza · 08/01/2003 12:02

Snap Cookie monster - DS is 22 months and we're in Yorkshire. We had snow when he was newborn but not much since. Took him out to build a snowman on Friday and he just stood there and whinged while I did it all. The arrival of his friend improved things slightly. When he got some snow on his mitten - he whinged more and held it out for me to brush off. As soon as we went inside some bigger kids destroyed our snowman. My neighbour (mother of DS's friend) was quite upset. But he likes looking through the windows at it.

Bozza · 08/01/2003 12:03

The snow that is - snowman being no more.

SoupDragon · 08/01/2003 12:05

We've just built a snowman in our garden. Looks rather scarey with his carrot nose and Fruit Shoot bottle caps for eyes but the boys seem fond of him.

GeorginaA · 08/01/2003 12:51

ds is 20mths and although I think it snowed last year he was too young to really register it. He loves it and he got very cross when we went out to town today and it was falling so heavily I had to put his raincover over his buggy!

He loves stomping up and down snowy pavements and paths but still a bit unsteady on the snow covered grass. Going to make a snowman this afternoon with him I think (although that's probably a bit ambitious !!) I'm having as much fun as he is

aloha · 08/01/2003 12:56

We've just been to the park in Camberwell and ds is so excited and happy (15months). I love this magic weather, even though I have no suitable shoes and ds's wellingtons are a size too big!

sobernow · 08/01/2003 12:59

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SoupDragon · 08/01/2003 13:16

GeorginaA, my, erm I mean "our", snowman looked fine until DS2 stuck both the eyes to the right of the nose.

Soberbow, I hope he didn't get his tongue stuck

GeorginaA · 08/01/2003 13:30

Lol SoupDragon, awwww....

breeze · 08/01/2003 14:20

its not snowing here (portsmouth), but ds has seen it on the telly and i so desperately want it to snow. My mum said the other day "its too cold to snow" is that barmy or what.

CookieMonster · 08/01/2003 15:28

Breeze, my mum says that as well - I've never understood what she meant!

breeze · 08/01/2003 15:30

i don't understand a lot of things my mum says, but that's another story.

Giovanna1 · 08/01/2003 15:33

I'm in Connecticut, and by Dec. 1st it had snowed more here this winter than it did all last winter! (And it hasn't really stopped - took me 2 1/2 hours to drive to work today!). DD (20mo) did not know what to make of it at first - "Snow? Snow?" she keeps asking - but now is quite used to it! We are taking her sledding this weekend...

And she loves mimicking us when we come in, stomping our feet in the entryway! She does it all around the house! Having her really brings a new perspective on so many things that had grown old and we had stopped taking pleasure from...

Nutjob · 08/01/2003 15:58

Breeze, Cookie Monster, I always remember a Billy Connolly joke when he was going on about all the mad things parents used to say. His nan apparantly used to say 'It's too cold to snow', and his response was 'It's minus 40 in the North Pole and there's bloody tons of the stuff there!!!'

CookieMonster · 08/01/2003 16:18

Nutjob

EmmaTMG · 08/01/2003 17:20

I've not long come in from the garden with my 2 DS's. They have both seen snow before but were far too young to remember it.
The snow in our garden (S.London/Surrey) is perfect snowball and snowman snow but guess what they did.....They played with the summer garden toys like the trampoline and little tikes car and I built a snowman....and a fine specimen he is too!!

megg · 08/01/2003 18:51

I emigrated to Oz when I was a baby and when we came back home (I was nearly 4) it was a white christmas. I can still remember how exciting it was. Pessimist that I am now I just think of all the horrible slush that it will soon be.

bloss · 09/01/2003 04:25

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SoupDragon · 09/01/2003 08:35

Bloss, we went to Sydney 5 years ago and I believe they had the entire expected April rainfall in the first 2 days we were there. Truly spectacular!! I've certainly never seen rain like it before.

DS1 has slept in his wellies before too - a truly appalling smell as he had n osocks. Ughhh.

GillW · 09/01/2003 10:16

The "too cold to snow" thing is to do with extreme cold tending to be associated with airstreams coming down from the arctic, which isn't the direction that the moisture laden clouds needed for snow tend to come from. Really cold weather in the UK tends to be associated with clear skies, not with snow. A degree or two below freezing is all that's needed for snow really - in practice an awful lot of what we see as rain actually starts life as snow, but melts before it gets to us.

breeze · 09/01/2003 11:33

thanks wincy, i mean gill w.

CookieMonster · 09/01/2003 12:56

GillW,
so my mum is right after all ... I'll have to start listening to some of the other seemingly daft things she says ...
Do you work for the Met Office? I used to live with a bloke who did and he used to drive me potty with his scientific explanations of the weather. And heaven help me if in an unguarded moment I said that the forecasters always got it wrong ...
Sorry, not implying your explanation of the 'too cold to snow' thing annoyed me - it just brought back a few memories

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