It’s finally spring here.
Glorious, beautiful, sunny and warm spring.
I have always loved spring. I think it’s impossible to not love spring when you live in a place where it gets really cold during winter.
Here spring is like a fun new beginning. It’s a time to get my kids outside without it taking 30 minutes just to get dressed to do so. It’s a heady feeling of breathing in fresh, warm air and feeling the breeze in my hair.
Yes, I always have loved spring.
But this year? This year I love, love, LOVE spring. Looooove it.
I have been waiting for it for so long. My kids have too.
This past weekend was our first spring weekend of the year. We did spring this weekend. Yesterday alone, we did almost everything spring consists of in one morning.
My in-laws came to visit and the girls had a wonderful time playing outside with them. My father-in-law spent a lot of time pushing swings.
The swings seemed to throw some sort of magic switch in my girls, especially Lass, as they all sang as loudly as they could starting almost immediately once the swings started going. They all sang as loudly as they could. At the same time. Different songs. It was awesome.
Also awesome is seeing green grass in our yard.
Baby Sis is still not entirely sure of the grass when she first sits in it. She warms up pretty quickly though.
We moved from swings to the trampoline,
to the muddy, but oh-so-irresistible puddle left by the drainage ditch at the side of our yard.
The girls could spend all day in that puddle.
But happily they were ready to move on to other things after a while of “fishing” with sticks and splashing and throwing things into the water.
I said “Bubbles” and they were all over it.
Baby Sis was imitating her sisters and me, really trying to get some bubbles going.
Then we pulled out the chalk and made masterpieces on the driveway and the rocks.
Of course we had lots of rolling and wresting and running and spinning in the grass.
Just look at them go.
Yeah, I think they’re happy that spring has finally arrived too.
Oh goodness, where to start… first of all, Baby Sis’s picture at the start of this post is absolutely adorable! That FACE in that bonnett!!! I may have told you this before, but I’ll tell you again — I SO wish I would have let my two play in the dirt and the mud when they were little! I just didn’t! Because I was selfish and didn’t want to clean up the mess. UGH! And I’m so angry at myself about it, I could spit! Anyway, I think it’s awesome that you do… and if my kids read this… LET YOUR KIDS PLAY IN THE DIRT AND THE RAIN AND THE MUD!! There. I feel better.
Love to see them run and laugh and play.
Love you,
Auntie