January in northern IL is just stinkin’ cold. I think I’ve been chilled since Thanksgiving and probably won’t feel completely warm again until well into April (and that might be optimistic). The first few weeks of January are usually bitterly cold and snowy and this year has been typical. The first week of January we woke up to negative numbers and didn’t climb into the teens for almost a week. It snowed last week, but I wasn’t brave enough to take the kids outside in the frigid temperatures.
Today it reached 33 degrees — above freezing!! HEAT WAVE! I decided that if the kids were going to get any guaranteed play time out in the snow this winter, today was going to be the day. So we bundled up and went outside. I think we ended up outside for a total of 2 hours (with a break in the middle to warm up). The upside to two weeks of really cold temperatures is that when it finally gets up into the 20s and 30s you can be outside for a fairly long time and not really feel all that uncomfortably cold.
Brennan wanted to “shovel” the snow.
He looks like he has a plan with that snowball…
This kid has about 50 million different expressions.
As if he wasn’t cute enought, this hat is just GREAT!
Ambushing his big brother…
The problem with putting snow on your big brother’s head — PAYBACK!
January 13, 2010 at 11:46 pm
Wow! Brennan looks so much like ELLA!!Very, very cute.
January 14, 2010 at 9:09 am
Yeah, that expression in the first one where he is throwing the snow is a total Ella “look.” We’ve been looking through photo albums of Aidan at this age too and except for the fact that Brennan has lighter hair, they look almost exactly alike also. It’s almost uncanny!