Sun, Sand, Slides, Spring & Snow

It's been a busy week, and felt an awful like spring, with quite unseasonably warm and sunny weather. Gavin, Aurora and I have been enjoying playing in the sun. We went to the Glacier on Monday and wandered around while the rest of Juneau was socked in with fog, where we even found some pussy willows, a sure sign of spring :)



On Wednesday, Gavin had so much fun playing in the sand and mud, it almost made me want to get down and dirty too. Almost.



Thursday was typically rainy and wet so we stayed inside most of the day, but yesterday we spent the morning with Abbey, Corder, and Thalen out at Skater's cabin where the three year olds had a hay day in the dirt (I forgot my camera, so no pics of the two of them together unfortunately). It was an inspiration to us to go back today but instead of playing in the sand, today we got to play in the snow, since it was coming down in droves. I swear, some of the flakes were bigger than Gavin's hands...




It didn't stick around much (thankfully...) but was fun while it lasted!

Being a SAHM

Is busy! And fun! I'll be back to blog more and post photos, but I am super excited about Aurora's new skill. She has started kissing. Only one person so far has gotten lucky with her...but he's gotten at least three kisses already. Everyone be jealous of Gavin!

Almost Done

I went in to kiss Gavin on my way to bed last night, and he stirred, rolled over a little and said to me in the cutest, sleepiest little voice,

"Almost Done Mommy.....Almost Done"

"Okay" I whispered, as I brushed aside his (admittedly way too long) hair. He rolled the rest of the way over and said,

"Almost Cleaned Up"

I tried to ask him what we were going to do when he finished cleaning up, but he was out again. I'm sure it was something terribly fun and exciting ;)

My view

Most of the weekend. I'm not complaining, if I had to gaze at something, it might as well have been so heartwarmingly pretty.

Daddy & Sister

Were busy while we made cookies :)


Enjoying the batter

Milk, milk, milk in the batter

We have milk and nothing's the matter!

He sang as he mixed the cookie dough tonight after dinner. It was nice to spend some time with him while the teething, cranky, snotty, feverish, working on three more teeth, miserable ball of snot that is his sister laid on her daddy's lap instead of mine where she has taken up semi-permanent residence. Maybe next time I have two free hands I'll even have time to download some pictures...

This house

Has a lot of parts.

For some reason that was the first thing out of his mouth this morning when he woke up. It was the cutest, smartest thing I have ever heard and a perfect way to start a Wednesday.

My Baby Boy

Gavin had a doctor's appointment on Friday so we dropped Aurora off with Pa and spent the morning together. On the way to the clinic, we stopped at the river to walk with Corder, Abbey, and Thalen. They actually took off ahead of us and caught us on their way back. Gavin and I enjoyed the sun together. It was nice to spend some time alone with my sweet baby boy :)

Castle Park

It's been warm and dry lately, so earlier this week I took the kids to Castle Park for the morning. It was pretty nice. We bundled up but it was not too cold, not too busy, and tons of fun. Gavin is finally big enough to make use of most of the play area and we had a great time exploring areas of the castle he has never really seen before. I know this photo is pretty dark but his expression is priceless!


Aurora had another first. Checking out the baby swing


Still unsure about the actual swinging part


My baby boy exploring


I can't wait for spring and more fun at the castle!

Mommy knows

How to make a tummy ache feel better.......

At least temporarily :)

Grandma gets the prize

For spotting tooth number three! Which probably explains the bout of biting her mama while nursing that went on most of last week, as well as a few very restless early morning nursathons earlier this week. And number four, of course, is right behind it, lurking beneath the swollen gums. Pretty soon she might look like this:

Everybody

Even the cat, has to get in on story time at our house :)

What is even more fun

Than making cookies with a three year old boy?




Making them with two!

Another classic

Two and a half years ago

A classic

This little lady is just growing up waaay too fast. She signed "milk" at me yesterday and started waving today (Pa, of course, got the first one of those. I think it was his Grandpa the Legend shirt!) She is crawling like a pro and pulling up on *everything* She has even learned how to get back down without help most of the time ;) and I saw her contemplating a little cruising today. She even fits in her very first pair of blue jeans, which I have to say are simply the cutest things ever! Or maybe it's just the model...

Watch Out!

It's official. I have myself a back-seat driver. We were on our way to Grandma's yesterday and a cyclist was coming up the hill towards us. Gavin had a perfect view from his car seat, since we were driving downhill towards the man on the bike. Gavin took one look and yelled at me,

"Watch OOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTT Moooooooommmmmy!"

Edible Dragon

Yesterday we made cookies with Gavin. It was tons of fun on an otherwise tough kind of Sunday. Aurora wasn't feeling well and Gavin...well....wasn't helping her feel much better...but we made it through and before dinner we rolled out some dough and decorated some yummy cookies.

I asked Gavin to smoosh the dough. Arrrr!!!

Rolling rolling rolling

Cutting

Decorating with "sparkles"

The Artist approves

His favorite was the lion dragon

And this one's for Becca. This is what Rora looked like during most of the cookie fun. Poor little ear infected girlies...