COLWOOD, B.C. – Although this is not his front yard, that is not stopping Jaxon from running up to a stranger’s melting snowman, picking up a stick that had fallen on the ground, and attempting to reattach the snowman’s arm.
The boy keeps trying to push the stick into the snowman’s torso, but it keeps falling on the grass.
But Jaxon perseveres because arms are important. Arms are attached to hands and hands have fingers and fingers can show someone how old you are.
Jaxon holds up two fingers, before raising a third, and finally a fourth to show he was once two years old, before turning three, and is now four.
But before he shows us what he does with five fingers, a voice calls out from the front door of the house behind the snowman.
“Thank you for putting his arm back,” a woman smiles at Jaxon.
“I saw that little guy trying to put the arm back on the snowman,” Carolyn Hamar says. “So I thanked him.”
Thanked Jaxon for caring, about what Carolyn cares about a lot.
“I’m into snowmen,” Carolyn laughs, and points to the white T-shirt she’s wearing which features a snowman’s face with a carrot for a nose.
“At Christmas time, my living room explodes.” Carlolyn says you’ll find dozens of snowmen decorating her house over the holidays, and you’ll see a few remaining all year to keep spreading the cheer. “They just make me feel happy.”
The snowman melting in her front yard is making her particularly happy.
“My grandson made it,” Carolyn smiles.
Jaxon is not her grandson. Although Carolyn’s grandson needs more than two hands to show his age, the teenager recently visited his grandma to build her a snowman because he knew how much it would mean to her.
“He’s a pretty special kid,” Carolyn smiles.
And so is Jaxon, who after trying and trying and never ever giving up believing that he could fix the snowman, finally did.
“Yeah!” Jaxon smiles, before doing a triumphant dance, and running up to Carolyn and spreading all five fingers to give her a high-five and mark a job well done.
“I thought it was cute,” Carolyn smiles after Jaxon leaves. “He was trying to make me happy!”
Then Carolyn notices that the snowman’s carrot nose has fallen off and walks over to try and fix it.
Although the melting snowman will soon be beyond repair, Carolyn says she doesn’t feel sad.
“We still have memories.” Carolyn attaches the carrot, adjusts the snowman’s hat, and puts her hand over her heart. “We still have memories that are good. That’s what this guy is.”
So, no matter the weather, thanks to the kindness of two kids, the most wonderful memories surrounding the snowman will never melt away.
