Spring Routine

Spring has come and now we've transitioned from our winter routine (lots of indoor crafts) to our spring routine - wake up, errands, park, lunch, park, rest time, outside, dinner, outside. I never knew that any day over 50 degrees could be so delightful. It really helps that we live so close to 3 large parks and can take advantage of them. So dear family, our photo-taking has plummeted and behavior has benefitted and I'll take the trade off.

A lot more puddle jumping

We actually had one afternoon that it reached 70 degrees so short sleeves and the water table made their debut appearance for the year.

 

 Coloring the deck in chalk just before a rainy day

 

She did her hair herself.

Another trip to Crayola with friends. They're sporting bunny ears.

Dress up in this house has gone to a whole new level

Daddy let Amelia "paint" with the iPad one morning. We found that she was "teaching" Austin how to use it. (The niceness lasted about 10 minutes - surprising!)

The perk of being a helper making Nutella cheesecakes one morning.

 

Enjoying his treat later that week

Watching sister sleep on the monitor

 Amelia's first family drawing. Patrick calls us the "Potato Family".

Just a little Go Fish with this card shark.

Amelia has a tendency to fall asleep near the end of her rest time allotment, sleeping until dinnertime. On one rare occasion, her best bud Brown Bear could not be found, so she went to sleep with Brown Bunny.  While Austin and I were playing downstairs, he found Brown Bear and was THRILLED to have a chance to play with him (He's normally off limits). He's putting him to sleep.

These kids empty the dishwasher every morning for me (silverware and kidsware). They used to have their own special jobs, but they've taken to "helping" each other - Austin passing the silverware to Amelia and Amelia passing the kidsware to Austin.