--- title: Stop Everything Now and Watch Bao Bao the Panda’s First Roll in the Snow description: It's literally the only good thing about the winter canonical: https://time.com/3656397/bao-bao-panda-first-snow-heart-melt/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-06T20:20:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:15:44.831Z og:title: Stop Everything Now and Watch Bao Bao the Panda's First Roll in the Snow og:description: It's literally the only good thing about the winter og:url: https://time.com/3656397/bao-bao-panda-first-snow-heart-melt/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf331927a97a39907/698778680b72e3091e6dcf8e/screen-shot-2015-01-06-at-2-50-20-pm.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-01-06 at 2.50.20 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stop Everything Now and Watch Bao Bao the Panda's First Roll in the Snow twitter:description: It's literally the only good thing about the winter twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf331927a97a39907/698778680b72e3091e6dcf8e/screen-shot-2015-01-06-at-2-50-20-pm.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Stop Everything Now and Watch Bao Bao the Panda's First Roll in the Snow by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Jan 6, 2015 8:20 PM UTC  YouTube by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Jan 6, 2015 8:20 PM UTC It’s [snowing across the East Coast](http://time.com/3655466/winter-storm-snow-commute-ice-travel/), and people are pretty miserable about it. But not Bao Bao the panda. As snow covered the grounds of [Washington D.C.’s Smithsonian National Zoo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQZ3-OD0ml0&hootPostID=886822699624d06a1e64a6e551011a78), the baby panda had her very first tumble through the winter flurries with her mother, Mei Xiang. Bao Bao was [born](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/01/national-zoos-panda-named-bao-bao/) after much anticipation on Aug. 23 2013. The 16-month-old, known by her trainers as being [sassy](http://time.com/3138509/bao-bao-panda-first-birthday/), is the reigning princess of our nation’s capital, and we celebrate her movements with pomp and circumstance. But seriously, the sight of the cub rolling through the snow may just melt your frozen heart. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3656397/bao-bao-panda-first-snow-heart-melt/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3656397/bao-bao-panda-first-snow-heart-melt/"},"headline":"Stop Everything Now and Watch Bao Bao the Panda's First Roll in the Snow","datePublished":"2015-01-06T20:20:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:44.831Z","description":"It's literally the only good thing about the winter","url":"https://time.com/3656397/bao-bao-panda-first-snow-heart-melt/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","viral","snow","Smithsonian","Panda"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf331927a97a39907/698778680b72e3091e6dcf8e/screen-shot-2015-01-06-at-2-50-20-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf331927a97a39907/698778680b72e3091e6dcf8e/screen-shot-2015-01-06-at-2-50-20-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-01-06 at 2.50.20 PM","caption":"","creditText":"YouTube","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3656397/bao-bao-panda-first-snow-heart-melt/","name":"Stop Everything Now and Watch Bao Bao the Panda's First Roll in the Snow"}}]}] ```