Chilly Days

 We've been enjoying some of our coldest walks to school over the past few days. It's been in the thirties, supposedly, but whew! it felt a bit cooler. The kids were ok - hats, gloves, scarves, stroller sleeping bag, etc. resulted in toasty little hands and toes. Though there were some chilly cheeks and noses on occasion. For my part, I suffered icy cold cheeks on all fronts - a problem reduced by pulling out some tights and warmer pants. Low rise pants coupled with normal shirts and coat appears to leave my bump a bit exposed at the bottom. I'm not terribly big, but just enough to get a cool breeze up my shirt whenever I go outside. I'm really glad the forecast for tomorrow is sixty degrees - my coat decided to stop zipping today.

Penny seems to run the same way as her Daddy - absolutely loves the snow. She was quite disappointed to have missed playing outside in our first few snow storms. When we got an additional inch a day or two ago, she took full advantage, making a series of angels on the front porch. They melted away by the time school was out, but here they are captured online.

On the way home from picture day last week, she was showing me her latest super jump. She thoroughly enjoys leaping from every sidewalk crack as we travel to and from school. Not sure exactly what happened, but I suddenly saw her prostrate in front of me and she turned and needed a cuddle. The cold made it hurt even worse, I'm quite sure. The scraped knee, torn pants, scraped nose and scraped forehead were a thorough job. The question is, of all the things she could have inherited from me, why did it have to be the accident prone nature? Hmmm... Normally around here, no one even looks at you, let alone talks to you. These days, random strangers everywhere we go stop me to ask what happened to her nose. Perhaps it's that cute friendly nature that makes her injury more noticeable.