Oh, that explained everything. This was Mary's first winter too, after all (well, spring now - which was also her first) so she could understand someone being new to everything. Where could she have possibly been from that didn't have snowmen? As far as Mary was concerned, everywhere did.

And she got to be the one to bestow her wisdom on this poor newbie! She was important!

She looked unbearably smug as she patted the ground next to her. "A snowman... um... It's a decoration for winter! You make them by rolling up snow and putting faces on them!"

...Wow, was that really all there was to it? She frowned a little.

"They don't do a lot..."