Spring Break!!

Our trip over was long. I lost track of how many times we stopped between Manistique and Escanaba because Maya thought she had to poop. Alex was not amused and I couldn't blame him. But we made it and were ready for some serious relaxing and fun.

Happy Birthday Ben!

Ben celebrated a birthday last month! Alex provided the "cha, cha, chas" for the birthday song!

Ostara (Vernal Equinox)

Usually we are just dreaming about spring when the first day of spring rolls around. This year we were LIVING it!

"Mom, I'm just ready to go crazy in here!"

That was spoken by Alex from the back seat of the car on the way home from Marquette. We were only about an hour from home but he said he just couldn't take it anymore. So we stopped at a park and ran around like crazy people for about 20 min and then continued on our way!

Marquette ~ outside

We did get some chances to go for walks, play at parks and hike to the top of Sugarloaf.

Marquette! ~ Children's Museum

The weekend of March 12th we went up to Marquette to visit Matt and Amy. Saturday the weather was not great for outdoor activities - it was chilly and there was a constant soaking mist - so we spent the day between the children's museum and the library.

Maya's new napping spot

As the weather moved closer to spring we started using the Chariot more and more again for long walks. Maya is getting use to playing and sleeping in there ~ I'm glad she seems to like it as that bodes well for more long walks and bike rides ahead.

Stars upon thars

For Dr. Suess' birthday Alex was suppose to choose his favorite Suess story and dress as a character. He chose "The Sneetches" as his favorite. He didn't have any plain yellow shirts so we did the best we could.

Loose ends

I had a few projects sitting around that I finished up (finally) last month.
The mosaic I started with my sister in law last Labor Day weekend! I had all the tiles in place but had not taken the time to grout it and finish it off. The center row of tiles is a deep purple color - it doesn't really show up in the pic. It now hangs over our staircase in the kitchen.
The felted coasters were started in November I think. They were knitted and felted but I had not needle felted the designs on yet. Those were mailed off to a friend.

The end of February.....

Sledding, playing in the yard, hockey game.......we had some winter fun the last few weeks of February. Good thing too because spring came quickly!

Problems, problems

I have been having a terrible time getting my photos to upload at the library. I don't know if it was their connection or the jump drive I was trying to use to transfer the photos or what. One day I got some to upload and then blogger dumped my whole post and started giving errors so I just gave up.
We are in Green Bay this week visiting and I am working on trying to get caught up!

Hot chocolate face (plus the bonus black eye)

Snow

We lost a lot of our snow the end of last month. We had a relatively thin layer of really crunchy stuff for a while...not real great for playing outside. But we've been getting out here and there. Maya loves to swing so much....which is possible in the winter but not easy when it comes to trying to get that little puffy jacket-ed, snow pant covered, big snowboot body back out of the swing!
Alex had started on a snow fort before the thaw but I think we have to just start over at this point. We do have more snow now, got some fresh this week so maybe that should be our job for the weekend!