Spring makes family time SO easy!
All of a sudden our yard, front or back, is a wonderful place to be!
Readers are popping up all over the yard, following the sunny spots really. The front step is a favorite place to sit. Just the other day my mother (in law) and I sat upon it and enjoyed tea in the sun together.
All the sports equipment is reappearing. It emerges from the garage and is instantly spread all around the yard. Catch with Dad is a favorite. In the above picture we are enjoying the front yard, during a part of the day with more sun there. My littlest man is wearing his biking helmet, though he didn’t bike much. It just happens to be a favorite outdoor fashion accessory of his.
Our drive way takes up the whole west side of our yard. It, the driveway, is taken up by a large collection of pine cones. They are forever falling, thus providing forever fun. My five year old collects them like nobodies business. One minute they are eggs, next minute she is just the maid trying to keep this yard clean (by golly) and later they became newspapers. She would pass them off to her older two siblings who (TRUTHFULLY) then bike up and down the block throwing a pine cone into each yard; calling at each stop ‘NEWSPAPER’! I laughed so hard and didn’t want to ruin their fun but kept my fingers crossed that the neighbors would forgive us…
Speaking of bikes, you bet the bikes are out and busy! All four of our crew are now puttering around. The bigger two are so good at it they could motor all over the city, if they where so inclined.
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| (The kids working on a dinosaur excavation toy in the back yard.) |
Back yard fun has included a lot of clean up, all the winter gunk seems to collect there. But, there has been fun too. Just today the kids where digging up dinosaur bones ( an Easter present from their grandparents). The other day they got to dig in the backyard sandbox for the FIRST time this year and it took a lot to talk them back out. Of course the back yard is home to the famous apple trees and my eldest is often up there pushing her monkey child limits. She likes to go up high enough to see her friends house (two blocks up in our crescent) and then try to signal her to come over and play.
Neighborhood kids are popping up left right and center. They zero in on our yard like puppies to bacon. I smile, set my limits, enforce my limits and let them enjoy the yard with my children as long as they behave.
Basically I know it is spring because I have gone from demanding the kids “Get out side and get fresh air”, to demanding they “Get inside ALREADY”!
TTFN
