Sunday, February 8, 2009

Six More Weeks of Winter?

Maybe we are going to have a warm February. If it isn't going to snow (and not ice over) then I want Spring to come early.

We took advantage of the warm weather this weekend to play outside. Wesley got to ride his balance bike for the second time. He did much better this time. He still doesn't love it because it is more challenging than his tricycle. I think he was pleased at how much better he did this time.
Lydia was better about walking outside this weekend. She often wants me to carry her even as we are leaving the house. She will often just sit down or stand and wait until I come back to get her when I try to walk away. Wesley would have happily run away from me at her age but she just gets mad if I won’t carry her.
I was actually hoping Chris and I could ride our bikes this morning but 45 is a little cold for the kids to be in the bike trailer plus it was windy. It warmed up to 65 this afternoon. It was still windy but it was a warm breeze (at least until about 4:30 or so).

I love seeing Wesley and Lydia having fun. Look how happy Wesley is in this picture. He is starting to briefly pump his legs when swinging. He mostly just screamed at Chris and me to push him higher. "I want to go higher!"

After riding his tricycle to the playground and back (he had some help on the hills), he took the scooter for a spin.
For dinner tonight I made shrimp scampi. Wesley kept asking what "scampi" meant. I told him it meant I used a lot of butter. I cut the kids’ angel hair pasta into small pieces. You can see a piece in Lydia's hair by her ear.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Those are some great pictures of the kids!! Looks like they had so much fun. And for some reason it cracks me up that Wesley wanted a definition of scampi! ha! They're so cute.

Mark said...

That balance bike looks pretty cool. I hadn't seen one of those before. Great idea. Glad you all could get outside for some fun!

The Farmer Files said...

My fave is the scooter pic with the shadow.