Waiting for Spring

I’m trying a new way to blog … seeing if I can make it easier so that I might actually do it. 

The weather has been pretty hard on us this winter.  Add to that we are living in the world’s most inefficient house, and we’ve had lots of grumpy children longing to get outside more and freezing parents inside getting tired of said grumpy children and wondering which one they should sell to pay for astronomically high power/gas bills.  I kid…sort of.

So the last few weeks, we’ve been delighted with temperatures high enough to allow for more outdoor play.  Thomas went through a spell when he was asking me almost every morning on the way to school, “When will it be summer again?”  Needless to say, the boys are very happy just to be outside!

This one is a little odd, but a little interesting…

Parker just cannot sit there and smile for me without walking toward me or grabbing at the camera, or both!

Parker has a mouthful of something here, but I was loving this picture of his hair.  I know one day he will want for straight hair just as all those with straight hair long for some curls, but for now, I love it.

Imagine our joy last Friday when we headed outside to play in long-sleeved shirts and quickly realized we needed to change to something even cooler!

And I finally got a few smiles by asking them not to look at me and not to smile.  Go figure.

Little punks…but I love them so. 

At least Thomas will give me a few seconds to try a close-up.

I’m sure we’ll have another cold snap or two in the coming months, but we have been sure to enjoy the warmer temps in recent weeks.  In the past three days, we’ve been to three park playdates!  Remind me when we are dying of the heat in August how much I was sick of being cold in February!  :)