We went exploring this morning. We've got a patch of wild strawberries we are keeping our eye on. Alex likes finding the patches of lichen that the deer dig up. We tracked some pretty little butterflies.

Around the yard

Alex took this video of "cutie".

Cutie

We found this little guy in the backyard last week. The kids named it "cutie". I hope I don't hear it in my basement wall later......

Dance

Maya had her first dance recital last Saturday morning. I won't expound on my irritation regarding the policy of no pictures or video taping allowed of my THREE year old's recital.....but that policy is why we only have these few pictures to share before the recital.

She was very excited and did a great job. She sat happily with her class for the rest of the performances.

Here is Alex riding his bike!

Remember this is hosted/posted via photobucket so at the end they will have an ad for other videos they claim are "similar" to ours. But they are not ours and I have no idea what kind of content they might contain.

no training wheels, pedals back on

This morning he asked Ben to put the pedals back on. Then he came in the house and told me I better come out and watch because he was going to ride his 2-wheeler. He got on, pushed off once and took off riding down the driveway. So I guess he was right!

He's super excited now and has been on his bike since about 8:30 this morning except for about a 25 min break to warm up.

He's back out again now!

Flowers! Finally!

I am so excited about our Trilliums! When we moved in there were Trilliums in the surrounding woods but none in our yard. A few years ago one popped up. Then the next year a few more. Last year we had about 16! This year there is over 20 already and they aren't all up yet.

In the front, whenever I find bulbs anywhere when I'm planting things around the yard I always plant them along our front walkway. Some of them were here when we moved in and some of them I think the squirrels have gifted us with. It's always interesting to see what comes up!

Mother's Day weekend

Silly

Wacky hair day

Alex is sporting a faux-hawk for wacky hair day at school today. He gave us a 10 minute dissertation at dinner last night outlining the details of the difference between a MOhawk and a FAUX-hawk. We will have to hose him down in the shower tonight to get rid of the 3 lbs. of grape scented hair wax that is holding that up but as you can tell he was thrilled with the results.

Also working on....

a set of wash clothes to be given to a yet undisclosed recipient at Christmas. This is the Raspberry Jam pattern, again from Ravelry. I used cotton because I had a bunch of it left. I have two done and I'm working on at least one, probably two more to round out the set (depending on how much yarn I have left!)

Second pair of socks - done!

These are cotton and kid size. I used the Riblet socks pattern from Ravelry.

We made a big purchase.

Hula hoops. $0.98 a piece. Worth much more than that!

Alex thinks he is the king of the hula hoop. They offered literally hours of entertainment this weekend.