A taste of spring

The end of March brought a few nice days.  Hooray!!  Of course, we couldn't resist getting outside to enjoy it.  Lots of walks and playtime outside.  Oh sun, how we have missed you.....

 

While Devan was at school, Lexi and I took Taylor for a walk.  She found a yellow ball and carried it the whole way, and in the car when we got back.  She didn't want Taylor to get it.

 And what did we find???  The first flower of the season!!!!  How exciting!!!

 After picking up Devan, we went for another walk (or rather, went for a run).  Yeah, get that energy out :)

 Devan's robin he did at school

He's been getting up super early but has entertained himself in the artroom, making lots of masterpieces :)

Last week it got to 60!  And so after basketball, I surprised them and took them to Woodside Creamery for a little delicious ice cream :)

 And then.... our first crocus.  Yippee!!!!

 And another walk.  We went for a walk almost every afternoon last week!  So refreshing to get outside and enjoy the sun (even if you have to wear a light jacket).

 Another one of Devan's masterpieces.  This one is actually pretty good!

 Out doing errands: silly Lexi with stickers on her face.  It reminds me of one of my favorites of Devan, right after Lexi was born.

We had a very rainy weekend where we got over 2.5 inches of rain.  But out brought the worms (Lexi loves worms), and the robins.  Lexi sits at the kitchen table and counts the robins.  Then announces: "Mommy, three robin birds!  Mommy, four robin birds!"  She is a little obsessed, but I think it's great she can identify which ones are robins, and she can count them :)

And folks, that's all the pictures I have!  Completely caught up :)  I guess it helped that I haven't taken many lately as all we've been doing is our usual routine stuff, and of course, potty time.  But now we go everywhere in underwear and she's doing great about going on demand (ie- before we leave the house).  She's in diapers at night (mostly just to use them up) and most of the time she's dry and goes potty right when she gets up.  If she's wet, it's because I didn't get to her in time when we wakes up.  Huge steps here, people, huge steps!

Longwood Gardens

Still mid-March....  and this is only our 2nd trip to Longwood of the year!  It was a semi-nice day.  Chilly, but we were headed to the indoor children's water garden in the Conservatory.  Nice and warm and humid :)  A chilly walk there, but we survived (without the stroller because she's a big girl now and strollers are for babies- her words).

 

Devan wanted a picture here

We met some friends, but the children's water garden is like a maze so they didn't see much of each other with everyone running around.  Devan loves this area- chasing the water around.

 Lexi's favorite place: painting the walls with water

 Before we left we strolled through the gorgeous Conservatory on the way to the bathrooms

Potties, Patty's and Smiles

Still in mid-March, and figuring out this potty thing....  tattoos are great!

The 3 musketeers for potty time!

 Nana and Papa sent St. Patrick's Day cards to the kids, with money to put in their piggy banks :)

Multi-tasking is what we do here!  Instead of naps, Lexi reads on the potty while I work (Devan is in school).  Hey, whatever works, right???

 Hanging out on her beanbag.  She's soooo tired....

 You know they're tired when this is what they're doing while I make dinner.  Notice the common "tired" theme here.....

St. Patrick's Day

Devan's art he brought home from school (not sure why it flipped on me, but I can't get it to straighten out)

 The Leprechaun made a visit to our house for St. Patrick's Day (I was super busy, so this was last minute.  Good thing Grammy was here to help- she had a good idea to make placemats for them).

 Get it?  The gold under the rainbow and cookies are clouds?  I thought it was creative- especially for running to Giant the night before.

 They were so excited!

 After breakfast, they got to pick one thing to eat with their green milk.  Lexi of course went right for the cookie :)

 Devan took a long time debating which one he wanted...

 Hmmm....

 ..... it's just so hard to decide.....

 Will you just pick one please Devan?

 In the end, he chose a Twizzler