A Visit To Aunt Doris'

Aunt Doris collects magnets and frogs. Gio still says " Aunt Doris has lots of frogs." She has quite the green thumb. Most of my house plants she gave to me from cuttings. Her christmas cactuses are the biggest I have ever seen.

Playing with the boys.

Her house is filled with all kinds of neat stuff. Breetz was intrigued by the face on this table. She told me it was given to her by her Father.

Breetz now holds his own bottle.

Playing with "Bob Builder things"

Both Aunt Doris and Gio think quite a lot of each other.

Aunt Doris' property is very senic. This photo just doesn't do it justice. She told me that just the evening before she had seen 12 deer in the field.

Easter

Both boys ended up with two baskets. One from Nana & Abuelo and one from Mom and Dad. Gio was only mildly interested in the basket as a whole. He found two "Bob Builder Things" in there. He was so excited about the first one he ran down stairs to have Abuelo open it with his tools. After it was open he ran up to get the other one so Abuelo could open the that one too.

Gio's dream of Abuelo opening his Bob Builder toys comes to fruishion. He had been talking about getting bob Builder toys for Easter and having Abuelo open them with his screw driver for days.

This purple basket of healthy toy foods was Breetz's favorite gift. He had a great deal of fun just carrying it around.

Breetz and Dad checking out what's in his Easter baskets.

Hard boiled and dyed Easter eggs found.

A shot of jelly beans. Gio opened his plastic egg and emptied it's contents, jelly beans, quickly into his mouth.

Dad got chocolate covered cherries, his favorite, for Easter. Gio helped him find and open it.

Great Book

I bought the book Coyote Concert On A Full Moon Night poetically written by Carol Whelihan-Schererfor and illustrated by Amy Quamme at the thrift store for the boys when they got a bit older but Gio really likes to read it now. He sometimes mentions that he remembers listening to them howling off in the distance one night when we got home when we read it. And now when we read it he talks about how we saw one run accross a field recently. We brought it over to Nana'as recently so she could enjoy it too.

Easter Egg Hunt

We attended an Easter Egg Hunt at MOPS (Mothers Of PreSchoolers) this past week and had a great time.

Finding eggs.

Bag 'full' of freshly collected eggs.

I told Gio that each egg would contain a surprise. Here he is opening his eggs.

This picture didn't turns out crystal clear but I still really like it.

Checking out an egg.

This egg's O.K. but what's that?

He just loves walking.

Breetz sits like this all the time and I finally captured it.

The Official First Day Of Spring

The road that leads to town.

There is a windy road that I often take on the way home from MOPS. There are houses on either end but the rest of it is tree lined and peaceful.

A path leading into the woods.

The trees in the woods look so beautiful covered with snow.

A house on a hill.

Snow on pine trees.

Out For A Walk

The weather is finally nice enough for us to get out and get some fresh air.

Hippity Hoppity

When I took Fancy outside this morning the sun was shining brightly, there were rabbit tracks everywhere, and all I could hear was birds chirping. I took a deep breath and smiled. What a wonderful day.

Fancy scoping out the tracks.

I thing it looks a bit like a face.

Fabrizio's 1st Visit To The Children's Museum

We went to the Strong National Museum Of Play this past Monday. Nana and Abuelo came with us and we all had a wonderful time as you can plainly see.