preschool classroom magic

Here it goes.  A week and a half with no school. All the moms are out and about with their kids, sledding at the park, walking around town.

Luckily for me, today was blazing sunshine and 40 degrees.  Warm enough for no mittens.  Warm enough to take off jackets.  Warm enough to promise Spring in the snowmelt, the returning songbirds.

I took the girls sledding at the park and then we played with friends on the jungle-gym and swings.

A and her preschool buddies played “BAD GUY EMERGENCY”– an exuberant, inexplicable game of running, chasing, shouting, and waving sticks.

The big kids generously included C, who couldn’t quite keep up, running behind bundled in her snowsuit on short, toddler legs.  Because it was sunny and gorgeous and everyone had a touch of Spring Fever, we stayed on and played more favorite games:

1. Hide and Seek

2. What Time Is It, Mrs. Midnight

3. Paw-Paw Patch

4. Sail the Boat to the Caribbean (Mommy invented this game, although she didn’t actually WANT to go down there.  For once, she was content to be exactly where she was, in Vermont, in the sun-filled moment).

No more cubbies till March 3rd

Back home, A and C frolicked like spring lambs out on the porch while I made phone calls.  C runs daily porch laps in her sock feet, shouting, “Mommy, it’s almost spring!”  She loves to run unencumbered by snow-boots.

I’m smart enough to know we have another month and a half of Vermont winter ahead of us.  Another big storm or two.  More battles over snowsuits and mittens and getting outdoors in bitter cold winds.

But I’ll take this thaw when I can get it.

As my mom wisely says:  ”Preview of coming attractions.”

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