A warm February day

Yesterday temperatures reached near 60 and everyone felt it in their bones when they woke up. The sun was streaming in the windows, and for once the furnace didn't kick in the whole day. We played outside splashing in mudpuddles, climbing through melting snowbanks, found hidden treasures long forgotten way back in November when the first snows fell.

This was Nicholas' first time walking around outside and seeing what the world was all about from the level of 30 whole inches. He was amazed at the leaves blowing in the wind on the tree in our front yard that held to the belief that summer was going to last a few more months and refused to drop its brown leaves. Puddles were investigated thoroughly by splashing and jumping through them. A worm was thrown across the tennis courts. We also drew our first chalk drawings of the year on the driveway, only to have them wash away today.

Veronica loved the wind in her hair, fishing in the "pond" by the tennis courts, and sliding in the mud until she slid face first into the puddle and came up looking worse than a pig in a pig pen. She is learning all about shapes and colors so she would yell out what she found for the world to hear.

Patrick and Sean played baseball on the tennis courts. Originally the idea was to go to the baseball diamond out back, but the mud proved to difficult to get the stroller through. Amazingly the boys actually were able to throw the ball and hit the ball thrown to them. Something that could never be done just a few short months ago. The boys also got ahold of the camera and took pictures of their own.
I will post those in another blog.