I don’t care what people say about Christmas, Spring is the BEST time of the year. I love that we can open all of the windows, the kids play outside almost all day and eat all of their meals outside, and we are all in great moods! We have had a taste of it this week with almost 70 degree temperatures and lots of sunshine. We’ve been grilling, enjoying after-dinner ice cream cones (sorbet, but they don’t know the difference), and today we opened up the sandbox for the first time. I feel like our play-space has doubled in size since we can finally use the patio again!
Tonight Harper ate an entire 6-ounce piece of macadamia-crusted cod and almost half of a mango. She really makes my job look easy. Roman, on the other hand, ate the other half of the mango and not much else. After dinner they enjoyed some cones at their picnic table. For the most part they insist on sitting together at their table whenever they eat outside. I think it’s so adorable!
Last night I gave them cones, went inside to put away the sorbet, and came back out to find them sharing a lounge chair:
Yesterday while Harper was at school, Roman discovered potting soil. It kept him entertained for a solid hour, then we had to make an impromptu trip to the tub:
The sandbox is officially open! I’ve already decided to invest in a new, stronger leaf blower to keep the sand at bay. I can’t stand having sand in the house and will spend the next 6 months sweeping the patio and enforcing our “no shoes in the house” rule.
Roman would be utterly lost without his trains (‘hoo-hoos”), trucks (“too-hoos”) and taxi (“tah-hah”), so we bring them outside with us. He is extremely territorial about just those toys and won’t let Harper come near them. We’ve pretty much given up on making him share, and instead told Harper that the dollhouse and her baby dolls are just for her and she doesn’t have to share them, but the trains and trucks are only for Roman. So far that seems to be okay with her. Roman also has a particular way of playing with them. He lines them all up either side-by-side or end to end and spends a lot of time just making sure they are properly in line. Obsess much?
