Someday, it will be warm enough to play outside again.
Although I have to say, today, I got a little scared. It was about 34 degrees outside and I thought, “Hmm. This feels warm enough to run at the park instead of inside at the Y.”
34.
Did I used to live in Florida?
Where 50 degrees is enough to send people rushing for winter coats?
And now I’m thinking 34 is decent exercise weather?
What have I become?
(And okay, no lectures about how kids should be bundled up and sent outside to play when it’s 10 degrees. If there were a lot of snow on the ground, yeah, they’d be out there. But there’s not, and it’s getting muddy, so I’ll just save myself a floor cleaning and keep ’em inside till we get a bit warmer and dryer. Besides, I have not-fond memories involving my New England-born and raised mother bundling me up in Kansas winters and telling me to go play outside because it’s so fun to play outside in the cold! I HATED it.)
Oh, and I highly recommend the alphabet train puzzle. It’s this one, from Melissa and Doug. I got it for Michael for Christmas. The first few times, I had to do it with him, singing the alphabet song 26 times during the course of each construction, pausing at the next required piece while he searched his brain, and then the floor for it. But I’m pretty amazed to report that he can do it all by himself now – and rather quickly, too.