Spring Break

Spring break this week for Dagny and Lincoln was pretty low key. Melissa's kids are on spring break next week, so no cousin time. Grandpa and Lincoln built with the Lincoln Logs. It reminded me of Blake because he was always building houses for his stuffed animals.

1. Lincoln loves pancakes! He had them for breakfast and lunch today.

We got one day of good weather to play outside. It was really sunny, hard to take pictures without getting squinty eyes, but this was so cute, I had to include it. The kids love to sit, dance, and play on the Bodeman's steps by the mailbox

 

Calista's favorite thing to do: push a doll stroller around the circle, most of the time running.

Dagny snitched my sunglasses, and wanted to sunbathe. She wants a tan. Where do they learn things like this at such a young age?

Pretending she's on a beach enjoying a cold drink.

It's too warm for a blanket, but Lincoln wanted to snuggle up.

Scooter time! Dagny especially loves to ride scooters.

Of course there was quite a bit of this going on this week. They are officially Kid Kindles 

with games and shows, but we call them showpads.

Storytime at the library is one of our favorite things to do. When Dagny and Lincoln started school, one day they saw I had new library books, and they said with much indignation, "Grandma! Did you go to the library without us?" I laughed and told them they get to go the library at school. When they are on school breaks, they love to go to the library, and that makes me so happy. I hope they love to read when they are a little older. This is shaky eggs. All the kids get eggs with beans inside (I think). and they play music, dance, and shake their eggs.

Calista loves the library too. When I tell we we are going, she says, "Yay," and jumps up and down.

Melissa comes to Storytime with us and then they come over for lunch and stay to visit and play until it's time to pick up Claire and Millie. Maddie and Emma were so cute at the library today! Library day is one of my favorite days!

And of course it wouldn't be spring break without a snow storm. We got 8 inches overnight Wednesday and into mid afternoon on Thursday. Dagny and Lincoln spent the night on Wednesday because we were all a little nervous about Landon trying to bring them on Thursday morning. There was a winter weather advisory and that always means a significant amount of snow.

Kimberlea had Thursday and Friday off for spring break, so I didn't have Calista and Everlee. Dagny and Lincoln's snow clothes were at home, so no building a snowman today.

 Lincoln can do 24 piece puzzles in just a few minutes, so I bought a couple of 48 piece ones for him to try and he did pretty good! I love to do puzzles, and I'm happy they like to do them too.

It was St. Patrick's Day on Thursday, and the kids were a little sad about their leprechaun traps, but I told them they could see them when they went home. Dagny had a green nightgown and this cute headband, so that was a little festive at least. She wanted to know when it was time for the pinching to start and that made me laugh.

The kids got a book with a CD from the library, and it made me remember these books on tapes that we had a very long time ago. We used them on car trips when we went to Utah and Idaho before the days when there were portable DVD players so the kids could watch movies. It really brought back some memories. I got them out and Dagny was very interested. I don't have the full set, some books are missing, and some tapes are missing. I think she listened to every one of them.

Picnic time!

One thing about spring snow storms, the snow melts pretty fast. I don't usually get cabin fever, but on Friday I really wanted to take the kids somewhere, even just a park, but it was too snowy for that, and I couldn't come up with anywhere, so we just went on a walk. The resting rock had some snow on part of it, and the other part was wet, so no sitting on it to take a break. The kids wanted to take strollers and stuffed animals, and Dagny had a basket of essentials, so they spread out a doll blanket and took a rest. I love Lincoln's smile!

Some silliness. 

Notice that Lincoln's pants are rolled up. He wanted to pretend it's summer.

One more picture just because they are too cute!

Lincoln is getting that so that he doesn't always want to have a picture taken, so when he wanted me to take a picture of him standing by this tree, you can be sure I was happy to do it!

Then Dagny wanted a turn. These kids sure have my heart!

The snow is too tempting not to play it. It had so much water in the could just pick it up in big chunks.

Then they would smash it down on the sidewalk. They did it several times until their hands got too cold, then they wanted to put their hands in my pockets.

Collecting pebbles. Good thing Dagny had a basket to put them in or they would have ended up in my pockets. I love being outside and this little walk was enough to change my mood. I'm thankful that I live in colorful Colorado and can go outside often.

Back to school on Monday!