Snow Babies

Well, winter never showed up last year, but it's doing a good job of reminding us this year just exactly how this season works in Cleveland.  We never got above freezing last week and had a fair dose of snow.  It was too cold to go out and play in it much; the picture from the previous post was on the daily foray from the car to the house. Finally, Sunday was just the right combination of snow, sunshine and manageable temperatures to test out the snow pants.  Still too cold to build a snowman, as the snow was all powdery, but there was still lots of fun to be had, romping through the undisturbed plain of the front yard. We made snowballs, knocked icecicles off of the gutter, piled up snow and build castle blocks out of buckets.  There were also snow angels.  As soon as the word was mentioned, the girls dropped to the snow and flapped their arms and legs.  Of course.  That's how you make  a snow angel.  Except, I'm pretty certain that I've never taught them this necessary life skill.  Are snow angels innate?