Today was the first sunshiney day in ages. Just like the moth, the sun finally crept out of its chrysalis.
We went to Highfield, which was fabulous as always. It was frog week, and Neko was pretty jazzed about it. Since we are slated to to tadpoles later this spring, I was glad to see her excitement.
Shep and Chris ran around and spent a long time at the trains. Chris couldn’t take his eyes off of them, while Shep logged a huge amount of time pushing buttons. Ellery and Alex each took respectable naps and then sighed when they realized both their mothers had forgotten to bring sun hats, and that this was probably a sign of things to come as in their lives as not-the-first-child.
I took lots of pictures there, but none of them were any good.
Later on I took the kids down to the garden so I could gather some starter topsoil for my kitchen composter, which I received for my birthday, but have yet to get going. The kids loved digging, and we had to pry them away from the garden. Even tonight, after we’d both played and dined outside, Neko was standing on the patio in her pajamas, refusing to come in with protests of “But it’s just so NICE out here!”
And it was. Thank goodness.