The Cruelest Month

Yes, that is supposed to be April, but I think March is definitely worse. There is so much hope that spring is arriving...daylight savings starts and the days get longer, the first day of calendar spring arrives, you see crocuses starting to pop out next to the snowbanks....Then March kicks you with a day like today and you realize that your visions of park playdates and barbecues are still a loooong way off.

It was freezing today. Although we have had some decent melting over the past few weeks, there is still a solid sheet of ice over all yards, playgrounds, and some sidewalks. The snow banks still make the sidewalks narrow and difficult to navigate.

We had Henry's gym class today. It is a little over a mile away, so it was way too cold for Henry to walk it on his own. This is how he spent the ride over:




Once there he got to run around to his heart's content and burn off some of his cooped up winter energy: