Between Kyler's birthday parties and it not being a very nice spring weather-wise, we had to find some things to keep us busy! Here are some pictures of things we did during these two months! :)
We played with Play-Doh! Kyler got some new Play-Doh for his birthday and we really haven't done a whole lot with it, mainly because of Norah's age, but she is old enough now to enjoy it too!
Norah had her first french braid! One night after her bath she asked me to braid her hair, just by gathering it at the bottom and going down, because that's what I do at night. Well the next morning, she wanted to keep her braid in for church. She was sitting in her seat eating breakfast (which is when and where I usually do her hair because she is confined) :), and I knew I had to do something to fix her braid from the night before because it was mostly coming out on top. So I thought while she was in her seat, watching Sesame Street, she would sit still long enough for me to try a french braid! And that's just what I did! It was a Sunday too, so she got to wear it for church. :)
Finally a nice day!! Kyler and Norah have been loving doing bubbles this spring.
The next week we did two french braids! They lasted a bit better in Norah's fine hair :)
We looked out our window one day to see this....hail!! Thankfully we didn't have any damage on our house or the van, but the truck-which was parked at the church-sure got hit!
Miss Norah being silly with her raspberries at dinner time :)
Bike rides! When it was finally nice enough to be outside we have been riding our bikes up and down the sidewalk a lot! I found Norah's "bike" aka, tricycle, at a garage sale this spring, and we have definitely gotten our money's worth out of it! Kyler got a new bike for his birthday and he has really shown tons of growth in his bike riding abilities between this summer and last summer. He's really getting the hang of being able to get peddling to be able to go back up the hill to our house. We are now working on using the breaks. :)
We planted our garden! It was so hard to find a couple days (in a row) that were dry so we would be able to till and plant our garden. Well, one Friday evening I told Erik that we needed to get out and do it, I believe it was the Friday of Memorial Day weekend. We had had a couple dry days in a row, and it was supposed to rain later that night. I knew if we didn't get it done then, it would be another week or two. So we quick ate dinner, tilled, and planted as fast as we could! And we finished just in time to see the clouds rolling in that were bringing the next round of rain. We planted many tomato plants, a pepper plant, cucumbers and pumpkins, it will be fun to watch them grow!
And last, I had to include a picture of our "mini geyser" from our backyard. One evening we had so much rain, there was water in our streets, people had water in their basements (we didn't, thankfully!), it was everywhere. Well we looked out when it let up a little bit and could hear this fountain-like noise coming from our backyard. And right in the middle of our yard was this little fountain or geyser shooting up out of our yard about 6-8 inches high. We have lived in our house for about 6 1/2 years and have never seen it before. There is a hole there that we think some rodent dug, but we had never seen water shooting up out of it. It lasted through part of the night, but by morning it had stopped and was all done. It hasn't happened since either! :)
