Gettin' Springy...

Ahhh, spring.  It sure is lovely isn't it?  This lone flower always pops up first amongst the tulips.  Every year, it is the first riser.

I LOVE when our furniture and grill come out.  Makes summer feel all that closer.  The kids are always happy to see the toys they had forgotten they owned.

Avery is still working on her sharing skills.  In her defense, the car was stolen out from under her, so she had a right to be mad.

As you can see, Dylan really cares.

Ha!  This totally isn't a posed picture.  It just looks that way.  They both happened to look at me at the same time for once.

These are her "play" sunglasses, so they don't really do anything to protect her eyes.  You'll recall that her other shades are no more, so these were the next best thing or risk a tantrum.

If/ when we move, I sure hope our next yard is just as big as this.

What?!  Do you think I was gonna let her go more than a day without proper sunglasses?  She IS a girl, you know.  We had to wear them INDOORS today as winter has returned again for a few days.  Its COLD out.  Booooooooo.

And like a true girl, she jumped at the chance to model them for me.

Little big, but she'll grow into them.

This calls for a dance!

Wait - what's on TV?

Nothing good!  Back to dancing!

And while we were picking out sunglasses for her, she made sure that her brother got a pair too.

He'll do anything to try and get that one perfect picture.  We did this over and over and over again.

Then it was tent time.  Could be our last tent till Fall!

And finally, I had to pretend it was warm out while drinking my smoothie.  I was wishing I was in that pink chair with the sun warming me.

This is just frozen peaches and mangos with almond milk.  Sams Club has a frozen bag of Tropical Fruit right now and its fabulous.  It has peaches, mangos, pineapple and strawberries.  Delish!

My only wish is that I would have had a Vitamix to make it in.  This took FOREVER!  It was worth it tho cuz it was sooooo good.

 

Well, time to RELAX!  Better go dig out my slippers.  GRRR.

Spring Fun

Well, there were more outside shenanigans yesterday.  Falls from high places, mud, loons - to name a few.  Yeah, Avery fell from the top rung of the ladder side (where Dylan is), hitting her head on the bar as she fell through.  Awesome.  : (

But she recovered quickly.  There was too much to enjoy about the day.  Check out one of our new mugs!  Sweeeeeet.

More time was spent on the slide.  The bane of my existence.

Alright, its not the slide I hate, its the stupid (or stinky, if you are watching your language) mud patch you see at the bottom of the slide.  Most times she doesn't fall, but it takes just one time for a clean butt to turn into a muddy one.  Mental note - must pick up laundry spray.

Then when we went for a walk, Avery noted it was "too BRIGHT!" and demanded my sunglasses become hers.

"GIVE THEM TO MEEEEEE!"

She always wins.

Millicent was out enjoying her favorite time of the year - which is anytime when there isn't snow to get on her dainty feet.

Then when I wanted my shades back, she was still demanding sunglasses of her own, so I was forced to go in and dig around to find hers.  She got lucky that I found them.  Sadly, there was an incident this morning and the glasses are no more.

Thankfully, Dylan knew right where his were.  I love how they push his ears out.

He only wears them when he's riding on the road.  He told me that sunglasses are only for when you are driving.  Mmmmkay.

The loons are back!  We've seen several!  They most likely won't stick around.  We'll get a pair that will stay, but the rest are just passing through on their way to their prospective lakes.  Here's the zoomed in pic...

And the zoomed out pic...

As you can see, the ice is rapidly depleting.  YAY!

Annnnnd my work here was done once Eric was done working.  Mom turns into chopped liver at that point.

They decided to unload all the deck furniture, toys and bikes from Pontunia.  Its becoming more real now - WINTER IS OVER!!!!!

More spring fun pics to come later and maybe a video.  My niece Natalie made up an awesome song about Bath Toys that I am obsessed with, so I've been encouraging some creativity around here.  So far, no dice, but I'm not giving up.  These kids are going to perform and they are gonna LIKE IT!

 

Mushiness

Well, we're taking guesses on what day the ice will go out.  My guess is one week from today - April 18th.  Eric's guess is April 16th.  It made major progress today.  Our bay is nearly all melted.

And this little pile here is what was left of our final (knock on wood) snowstorm.  It melted today.  Good riddance!

The kids spent a lot of time wrestling each other today.  This isn't exactly what I meant when I said, "go play."  Oh well.

Ohhhh to have the complexion of a toddler!  It's not fair!!!

For some reason, this mask has been getting a lot of face time.  Pun intended.  They both think it's hilarious!

My ZIN (Zumba Instructor Network) 32 DVD arrived today, so we worked on our dancing skills.  Clearly, the mask was needed.  Gives the dancing a little more flair.

There is just something about latin music that makes them want to move.  They always stop what they are doing when they hear Zumba music come on.

I love Avery in this one.  She favors the Raggaeton rhythm and when she hears a song she really likes or knows, she gets pretty crazy.

After dancing, we went out to check on nature.  Since the ice is going out, the wildlife are providing us with more entertainment than usual.  You'll be happy to hear that we have seen a loon - so it looks like they didn't get oiled up in the gulf like we had feared.

The stuff you see in the water is ice chunks breaking off of the main mass of ice.  Its NOT weeds.  Yet.

Iceberg!  Dead ahead!  If you look closely, you can see 2 fools on the ice fishing.  See them?  They are the 2 specks directly above the right side of the iceberg.

Avery is loving the slide this year.  I'm just hoping that the grass dries up pretty soon cuz they both got pretty muddy from their boots getting mud all over the slide and then their butts sliding into the mud from their boots.  I'm soooooo not a fan of spring mushiness.

Finally, I was able to distract them away from the mushiness to go for a wagon ride.

It didn't last long and they made me turn around to go home.  I've been waiting for Avery to be able to sit on the well cap!  2 years ago I took a picture of Dylan sitting on it while Avery was baking' away in my belly.  Now here she sits.

Well, that is all for now!  Chuck is all new tonight, so I've got a date with the couch and my husband!  Later!