fun in the sun!

Wow, it was warm today! The sun was shining, so Nancy and Anne came over to play. We walked down to the park for a picnic, then walked to Rite-Aid for some much-needed frozen treats, and then we played in the sandbox and the sprinkler until well past naptime! :)

Wa-hoo!!

little lady's almost better

 . . . and we'll be retiring Arthur, as well as The Backyardigans, for the next year or so.

rainy

I've got a sick little girl sleeping upstairs, and downstairs, a basement that is filling up with water too fast for me to keep up. Ah, what a day. I do love the rain, though. :)

signs of spring

Hi there! Today is chilly but oh so sunny, so Annie and I spent a good part of the afternoon outside playing and cleaning up the yard. I noticed some pretty happy things going on back there . . . 

 willow bush buds!

chives!

daffodils and crocuses!

tulips!

more daffodils!

Here's to more sunny days ahead!

Oh, and this isn't really related, but check out these two cuties playing piano together and singing on Sunday night . . .

(that's right; we still haven't gotten rid of the piano smack dab in the middle of the kitchen :) )

How Do You Remove a Radiator? or, Why There's a Piano in My Kitchen, by Coralee

Joy of joys! Brant found a free player piano on Craigslist that was barely a few miles from our house! He enlisted a nice police office friend with a truck and trailer. He gathered three other strapping young men. They successfully yanked and tugged that humongous piano up and over our snowy sidewalk, yard, and steps. They removed the front door and then the doorjam into the dining room. It barely squeaked through the door. Then. The radiator. None of us could figure a way around this sucker. We can't angle the piano through the door and around it. The radiator is totally in the way. And there's one at the other entrance to the dining room, too. We can not figure out how to get this piano out of the kitchen and into the dining room, where we had intended it to go. Any ideas? I think we'll just have to get rid of it, otherwise. 

So sad!

Sunny :)

I just couldn't stop her from running outside in her pjs and shoveling a little bit. Hey, the sun was out, and it was 40 degrees! What was I supposed to do? :)

Happy Groundhog Day!

What a fun morning! We're sick with yucky colds, but that didn't stop us from enjoying the craziness outside. And Daddy was home all morning with us to play! Yippee!

More block cities . . . big surprise!

haha--I caught her right in the middle of saying "More cars!" She has lately been obsessed with needing even more cars than she already has.

Everyone needs some Annie love

azaleas

our poor bushes :-(

more azaleas--it was so fun to slide the ice tubes off each little twig--Annie thought you should eat them

rosemary and oregano plants!