Keeping busy...

Here's some cute pics from the past week. Rowan recently turned 3, I can't believe it! I forgot to bring my camera to the party, so hopefully soon I can get the pics off my dad's camera and post some. The day before his party Isabel had a bit of an accident. She was at my parents' house, as usual on Fridays, and was just standing on the steps leading up to their porch watching my dad kick a ball up onto the roof. Apparently she was looking way up high and lost her balance and fell on her face. She landed right on her nose and scraped it up and bruised it pretty good. It's healing really quickly, but for a couple of days she looked pretty awful, all black and blue and swollen and scraped. You can see a little bit of it in some of these pics, but I didn't manage to get a pic of it at it's worst. Yesterday we went to the playground again and of course I took some more pics.
Isabel insisted on taking this bear all over the playground even sending it down the slides.
She wasn't very interested in having her photo taken, usually running away from me whenever I stuck the camera in her face.

Little Sophia is getting so pretty! She didn't mind at all having her photo taken, she is just the sweetest, most mellow child. She rarely cries!This was taken on Saturday night after Rowan's birthday party. Isabel never took a nap that day, but then she fell asleep on the floor at 6pm. Jason and I just left her there and ate dinner out on the deck without her. The tv was on, the dishwasher was running, and we were walking all around her, and still she stayed asleep on the hardwood floor for about an hour! Poor tired little kid!

The weather has been amazing here and we've been getting outside every chance we get. Isabel doesn't want to miss a second of anything, so we've had some battles at nap time and bedtime. She thinks she's ready to give up nap time, but when she misses it she ends up like the pic above, and I'm just not ready to give up nap time either! :) But she is very definitely a stubborn 2 year old, and is pretty challenging sometimes. My patience is being tested often. I guess it's about time that the terrible twos hit, since she over 2 1/2 now. All in all she's a fun kid to be around and we have a blast together, just not at nap time! ;)

Springtime!!

Finally it's warm and sunny, Spring is finally here! It was 65 yesterday and is supposed to be just as warm today! Yesterday was also Rowan's birthday, he's 3 now! Isabel and I had a wonderful day in the sun. First we went to my parents' house and played outside for a while, then had lunch and right back outside after that. We came home for a short nap and then headed out again to meet up with my parents and Sarah, Rowan and Sophia to go feed the ducks at UMass. The kids loved it, and as you'll see from the pics, so did the ducks!

We started out feeding just a few ducks in the water.Then we found this pair on the grass.
Soon they were swarming in from all over the pond.


These ducks had no fear, one scared Rowan by taking the bread right out of his hand before he could throw it.

Sophia really wanted to join in on the fun!

Below are just a random mix of pics from the last couple of days, it's been a busy week so far!

Big girl can stand now and even walk a bit while pushing things!

Trying to fly a kite without much wind.

My little gymnast walking the balance beam with Uncle Mark.
Another kite-flying attempt.

And one last pic...

We stuck the two kids in the tubby together after getting all dirty at the playground. Probably can't do this for much longer, but for now they love it and it's pretty cute.

Happy Spring!!!