Catch Up

We've stayed busy this past month. Since warm weather has finally arrived we've been outdoors most days and evenings. We've already made use of our zoo pass. We go sometimes as much as 3 times in one week. The boys love it and it is a great place to spend the mornings walking. Plus we can get there in 5 min. stay for a while, have a picnic lunch, and it takes us to naptime. Tad spent last weekend planting new grass in the back corner of our yard so that has hindered time on the swingset but the boys love to go to the neighborhood park.

The boys are getting to be so funny. They are into "pretend" play lately and they run around the house pretending to be "Diego'. They also hide behind chairs or drapes and yell for help or for someone to "save Diego (them)". Peyton said yesterday that he was Diego and Connor was "Dora".. I changed that to Boots to be more gender appropriate. They also love to color. Yesterday Peyton had a piece of paper and crayons...I was busy fixing dinner...he had colored every single color in their own section (not over lapping) and then handed it to me calling it a rainbow. I was so surprised he did that and also called it a rainbow that I had a proud "mommy" moment and put it on our fridge. He had no help and usually they just scribble all over the paper and call it 'a mess'. They both know all their colors, love to hear books, they help read books (repetitive text) their favorites this week are 5 Little Monkeys... Jumping on the Bed...Wash the Car, & Sitting in the Trees, and enjoy singing songs. We are sad the library story hour is taking a break for May. They also would stay outside and run around as long as you let them. Lately all I hear them say is "sandbox". Looks like we'll be purchasing that soon b/c they love to dig in the dirt.

We are loving this week. My brother came home last Sunday for a week's stay. Although he stays w/ my parents we still get to see him plenty and the boys LOVE having him around. My mom's birthday was Monday so we had dinner & cake here.(Even got to have our first meal of the season on the screened porch). We haven't taken too many pictures with Brian home but he's coming for dinner tomorrow night so we'll try and get more before he leaves town this weekend. When he or my sister come home it sure makes their leaving hard. It seems they both never can stay long enough. We sure are enjoying spring. We look forward to June when we'll vacation w/ Tad's side of the family. More later.... here is one picture I have the rest are on Tad's camera so I'll have to get those uploaded later.
Connor,Tad,Peyton,Brian