February and cold, with a side of chocolate

Usually I like February. Short month, my birthday is in it, the chocolate-to-person ratio is very favorable, and it's closer to the first day of spring than to the first day of winter. However, something has changed a bit this year, and I am now officially tired of the cold. Don't mind the snow (in fact, it's quite pretty), but this perpetual shivering is getting on my nerves. I just need one or two days of 50+ degrees, and then it can go back to the icy chill. Is that too much to ask? I know, I know, I CHOSE to move here from parts south. And I'm really trying not to complain, because life here is 95% awesome. It's just that other 5%, which is at this moment frozen under a sheet of ice and a foot of snow in the back yard, that I'm not happy with.

Mostly same old, same old around here. Reece's birthday seems to be lasting indefinitely, as we celebrated it with my brother's family this week but weren't able to do the laser tag we'd planned on because Reece was a bit under the weather, so that still has to take place. He's been averaging a present every 4-5 days since his birthday, although I think those are finally done. Reece did say to me on Friday, kind of dejectedly, "I wish more boxes would come for me in the mail."

Greyson's hairstyle looks more and more like Justin Bieber's on a bad day, and on Saturday I grabbed the entire front that was hanging in his eyes and told him I had something that could help. He liked it so much, he asked me to continue with as much of the rest of his hair as I could. And then he complained that it itched and took them all out. Dan took the picture as blackmail for sometime in the future:

In other news, I remembered LAST NIGHT that Reece's 100th day project was due this morning. Which we hadn't even started. At least I had gotten the supplies. So I spent an hour of the time I should have been prepping for my class to do Reece's homework. He did do half the taping, so at least I can say we worked on it together. And then I turned it in this morning, because Reece stayed home sick (with Dan), and I found out the 100th day has been delayed one day due to the snowday the kids had last week. So I didn't even have to finish it last night. Gah.

(Those are 100 q-tips, in case you couldn't tell.)