Is it cold enough for you in the new year? Ever since the ball dropped it’s been nothing but blizzards and black outs across the country. The weather might seem beastly to us, but it’s a blast for the National Zoo’s baby panda, Bao Bao, who made good use of the cold snap this week.

This video of Bao Bao rolling down a snowy hill and playing with her mother in the frigid Washington DC winter gave the nation a case of the warm fuzzies when it went viral on social media and even made the national television news.

Some journalists even say that the baby panda’s first snow storm makes all that cold worth it and maybe it’s true. Seems people just can’t resist the warming feeling they get watching a roly-poly baby bear play in the snow. I know I couldn’t. The YouTube video has over two million views and I think at least a hundred of them are mine!

Your “Let It Snow!” Gift Guru,
Linda