Winter Walks to Get the Wiggles Out!

Enthusiastic night walkers!

  

Winter in Oregon. Winter anywhere brings more darkness and makes it harder to get out after school and work to get the wiggles out of the little ones and trying to stay active. In Oregon, we do not get lots of sub-zero temperatures or mountains of snow. We get wet. This year we have gotten the rain boots and will be getting rain pants and coats shortly!

Our excitement right now has to do with newly purchased headlamps! My wife Theresa is sporting one of them in the picture above - the Coast LED Lenser with a link on this page - which is very cool... We got three of them so the boys could each wear one during dark winter walks in the neighborhood. The boys have used them and are thrilled with them while they walk with us! They have their hands free and can stumble around on the sidewalk, pick up items of interest, and make the street signs light up! A couple of nice features of this particular model: they take a single aaa battery (you can use rechargeable batteries, aaa batteries are easy to find, and inexpensive), there are two blue LED lights on the back for visibility from behind, the LED in front is definitely bright enough for walking, and the whole setup (with the one battery) is quite light weight!

Get away from the TV: go out and enjoy the winter!