Spring Has Sprung!

Or at least, we hope it has. We have had some very pleasant temperatures lately, which have allowed us to spend large quantities of time playing outdoors! Hooray for being home and able to drop our indoor plans and spend the day outdoors! If we were out at daycare/school/work we wouldn't be able to enjoy these days! We would love to see the warmer weather remain, especially after our unusually snowy winter, because we have no heat in our van, and it is pretty chilly travelling on the days that are cold, but we will certainly take what we can get!

Esther was attempting to throw rocks into the ditch like her older siblings... she hasn't figured out how to let the rock go at the right time yet though.

 Esther is enjoying the joys of being able to move around outside. This is her first year really being able to do much outside, and she loves to take her little riding toy out to ride up and down our road while the other two ride their bikes! 

Discovering that rocks fit down the holes in the manhole cover.

 We've decided that our children are very observant at church-- they set up the drums and a chair, got out a kazoo, and then got a broom to act as the microphone, and spent about 15 minutes being a praise team on our front lawn. Hopefully, since this occurred in the middle of the morning they didn't bother too many with the noise! :)

And, proof that spring is here (even if it is COLD today-- seriously, we started the day with snow)! Crocuses are blooming in my lawn!

Spring Party

Rebecca has taken a liking to stickers lately, and she just happened to find this sheet of coloured dots sitting in our front yard one afternoon last week. :)



Justin's work had a Spring Party for the kids, so we took Rebecca to it. She completely fell in love with glitter. I'm not planning on getting any for at least another year or two! What a mess!! She figured out how to pour it and if she could have figured out how to get glue out, I'm sure she would have been gluing and glittering all by herself!

I found the letters for her name, she stuck them on... hence the fact her name is apparently Rebceca instead of Rebecca. :) She followed instructions on order until we got to the C's... :)

Glitter on her hands!

Juice break

A basket hat...? Interesting use for a basket!

Visiting with the Spring Bunny. She was convinced to go to him using the little frog in her left hand, and when she sat with him, they gave her her own little bunny to take home... the only thing was, she wanted to take the frog home and leave them with the bunny! It took a few minutes to convince her to leave the frog behind!

And then everyone headed out for an egg hunt. :) It was quite successful, and they had made a separate hunting area for the 0-3 year olds, so they got the chance to pick up their own eggs. It was quite a successful practice/learning run for Rebecca, as she did a hunt this afternoon as well, and needed no prompting to pick up the eggs and place them in the basket. :)

Pictures, and lots of them!

Okay, so I have a ton of pictures on this post... it might take a while to load if you have a slow connection!

Tuesday Afternoons

This is the knitting group Rebecca and I go to on Tuesday afternoons. We get together in one of the church's fellowship rooms or whatever it is called, sit in a circle, and they talk (I mostly just listen) and Rebecca visits each person around the circle and everyone knits. It's a great way to find out everything happening in the church!

Knitting again.

Our Garden

This is what you see when you look out our front door right now (though those daffodils are starting to die off now).

And this... is a robin's nest! It's in our front porch hangover thingy.

From our front door, looking to the right.

A little closer up.

The robin sitting on the nest!

I thought it quite brave, but on further reflection, perhaps it is a little foolish seeing as it just sat staring at a big black piece of machinery while I took pictures!

Eggs! There are actually five now, but this is from last Monday.

A hyacinth getting ready to bloom.

And in full bloom!

Daffodil

I have no idea what that bug is, but I thought it looked kind of neat.

Pansy! We have purple, bright orange, and the previously posted wine coloured ones in the garden, all in full bloom.

Crocuses.

Daffodils. I think these are particularly pretty with the frilly edges of the centres.

A bit of a view of our garden from the front.

Our house! The driveway happened to be empty since Justin was at work and my car was in getting a bunch of belts and things changed that day, so I took advantage of it and took a picture.

Rebecca Pictures

Hanging out on the front lawn.

Getting ready to go for a walk! She has just recently started riding in the stroller itself without sitting in her car seat, and she just loves watching where we are going.

Looking at all the flowers from our front porch.

Sitting up! Though she does have my legs and feet for support, but she was mostly doing it herself.

Rebecca really loves that frog. Shannon gave it to me a couple of years ago, and for some reason Rebecca thinks it is one of the best stuffed toys to play with. I think it is because it is easy to maneuver, as she also likes that little duck toy in the background there.

Another of Rebecca's new favourites! This is one of the neatest toys I have ever seen. It rattles, spins, flips around, and there are little mirrors all over the interrior!

Sitting up! This and the next two are from yesterday. Our church had an Easter egg hunt for the children, and they insisted that Rebecca was old enough to participate, LOL. She got seven eggs, and enjoys playing with them. I think we're supposed to return them though... so I'll have to do that sometime!

Yes, she's actually on her hands and knees. She's not crawling yet, but she *can* get up on her hands and knees when she wants to. She prefers to push herself forward with her toes and backward with her hands though!!

Very Stark Contrast to Last Monday

We have been enjoying our spring weather for the past few days! Flowers are blooming, the weather has been sunny and around 75 degrees... basically, very pleasant! Today it's not sunny, and not quite that warm, but it's supposed to go up again tomorrow... then it's supposed to go up and down the rest of the week. I feel like we are the yo-yo on the end of the (weather) string!

I took a whole bunch of pictures of Rebecca outside yesterday afternoon (85 to be exact) and I have decided to display 16, lol. Be glad I finally settled on that small a number. Most of them are ones I wish I could show, since they're just very cute. I decided that perhaps it's just the mother's eye that makes them so wonderful to look at though, so forced myself to narrow the selection drastically! Anyway, I also took some "not Rebecca" pictures of flowers and an oak leaf that happens to be hanging out in our garden at the moment.

This is a pansy that I grew from seed last year... the first flower finally decided to come out yesterday, LOL. I can't believe that it really took nearly 12 months for the thing to bloom!

One of the daffodils my mum planted for me! It hasn't actually bloomed yet, but it will shortly, I would say! perhaps tomorrow??

Said oak leaf in our garden. I just thought it looked kind of neat. :-)

And now... the pictures of Rebecca. I really couldn't make up my mind which ones of these to post! Isn't the sleeveless shirt and shorts on the green grass amazing after the snowy pictures of last week?? Seriously, she's actually laying in the exact spot her sled was sitting last week in the pictures, just facing a different direction!!
















With this lovely weather, has come a very, very hot church sanctuary, which Rebecca was not too pleased about! She got very agitated in church on Sunday morning, and only after realizing she was probably swealtering, and therefore stripping her down to her onesie in church did she settle down again. However, we also need to figure out how to teach her to be quieter in church, particularly during the sermon. I am pretty sure she is getting noisy at that time because everyone else is being quiet, so if she makes noises then, EVERYONE responds! I think my social butterfly likes the interaction it causes. How, though, do you get 20 people at the front to not respond with so much as a chuckle?? Yeah... I don't think that's happening any time too soon. So, I guess I'll just have to think on it. Of course, it would also help if it wasn't going to cause a huge fuss if I was to give her a little flick whenever she got noisy... but I have a feeling no one would like me doing that to a 4 month old!! Oh well.