March

One of the things I've noticed while updating the blog today is that I need to get better about taking pictures!!

After months of Spring coming with me when I worked in Reed's class at preschool, we finally decided to enroll her in preschool too. She was getting REALLY upset on days when brother would go to school and she had to stay home so we finally just signed her up. Here she is on her first day. :)

Spring and Daddy starting some plants for the garden. She's definitely our little farmer. We've got lettuce growing right now, and she loves to pick it and eat it!

We also got out for a walk with some friends in Banner Forest in March. The kids found a HUGE puddle to throw sticks and rocks in. The sides by the puddle were really steep so I spent the whole time worrying that one of them was going to fall in, but everybody stayed dry!

Then we found a leaf that had been torn in the shape of a mask.

February

One of the highlights of February was a trip to visit the upland portion of the Tom Farmer Oyster Co. Gerry buys fresh oysters from him all summer long at the farmer's market. He had repeatedly invited us to come see his operation, so we decided to take him up on the offer.

Here Spring and I are holding an enormous oyster shell.

We found an earthworm that Spring decided to hold.

And a rough-skinned newt that nobody but Mommy wanted to hold. I'll turn them into herpetologists yet!

Grandpa brought a load of wood over and both Spring and Reed, but especially Reed, helped unload and stack the wood.

Reed would get the wood out.

Put it in his wheel barrow.

He put some in Grandpa's wheel barrow too.

Then he would take it back to our wood shed.

And stack it up! What a helper!!! :)

Spring helped for a while, but soon found she would rather play in the cab of the truck. :)

I took R and S out for a hike at the Theler Wetlands. You can probably tell from their posture in this picture that despite the sun, it was COLD!

It was better in the woods where the trees sheltered us from the wind. R and S spent some happy time tossing sticks into the little spring here.

December/January

This poor blog. I keep making resolutions to update it more frequently, but still struggle to do so. The thing is though, I love going back and looking at previous posts, so I know that future-me will be angry at present-me if I don't keep this updated! So future-me, this post is dedicated to you. :)

At the start of the year, we made our annual trip to the coast with friends of ours.

We made sand angels,

flew kites,

dug razor clams,

shot off rockets,

and generally had ourselves a good time. :)

I got a great pictures of each daddy with his daughter.

We dug razor clams on days. The first day, was like shooting clams in a barrel. I dug my own limit, helped dig Reed and Spring's limits, then helped a stranger (who had a special permit that allowed people to help her) to dig her limit. This was the two families' haul on the first day.

Later in the month, we got out for a walk at Machester State Park. It was cold, but it always feels good to get out and get moving in the winter!

We had some snow. It was really wet so it was quick (but heavy) work to make a snowman.

We had some other friends over too. The kids really enjoyed playing with their fishing poles together.

And some sibling cuteness to end the post.