A few days ago when we had 8 inches of snow on the ground, Sam and I went out to shovel/play in it. While I was shovelling, she was playing and found a large chunk of ice which she proceeded to put on the grill. Mind you, the grill also had 8 inches of snow on it. After I was done with the driveway, I cleaned off some other things, including the grill. She saw that I had cleaned it of and threw a mini fit that I had destroyed her “sculpture”.
All day I heard about that sculpture as did her mother who was informed of my infraction immediately upon returning home from work. At bedtime she said she was still upset about it but we told her to forget it and go to sleep. About an hour later I heard her crying in her room. When I went to see what was wrong I was told that I hurt her feelings when I destroyed the sculpture. I told her that we could make a new one the next day after school and she agreed that this was an acceptable resolution.
The next day after we got home from school we came in the house and put her things away. I told her that I was ready to go out and make the new sculpture, to which she replied “Nah. I think I can live without it”. She’s never brought it up since then.