Spring? Here, Spring!

Today is the first day of spring break.  Which means that Dex is here all week.  Which means that we all might go crazy by the end of the week.  I was hoping that the weather would be nice and we'd be able to go outside.  Ride bikes.  Walk the dog.  Go to the playground.  Maybe go to Longwood, see if there's any flowers.

Ummmm.  Yeah.  We're definitely not doing that.  At least, not today.  For one, we are all sick.  So my plan is to firmly implant my butt cheeks to the couch and not move them.  And for two...  Please to be observing the weather, on our first day of spring break:

So, yeah.  We're gonna just stay inside today.  Maybe I'll get out the water table and put some snow in it and let Dex play with the snow inside.

A couple weeks ago we had a little flirt with spring.  And spring is, I think, trying to come.  Mom saw some forsythia at the Dansko outlet the other day.  The neighbor's daffodils are up and trying to get ready to bloom.  Today the weather channel has 2 warnings for us.  One is a high pollen alert.  The other is a winter weather advisory.

Here's some pictures from our flirt with spring.  This was the same weekend that Dexter's pants fell off

Yay!  It's nice outside and we're on the couch playing with an IPad!

It was a nice day to walk the dogs.  Dex took Buddy, but he really wanted to walk Scout.  Which, no.  Scout weighs more than you do, kiddo.

So he helped Daddy walk Scout, instead

The next day we got Dexter's green bike with pedals off the wall.  We've had it for a while, but Dex hadn't quite grown in to it yet.  I think he has now.

John missed the above "Dexter riding his bike all by himself" and then spent 20 minutes pushing Dex all around the yard and the driveway.

We have since this day taken the pedals off this bike, so he can get used to gliding and steering with it (it's bigger and weighs more than his Strider).  I think his pedals can go back on soon.

Erin came out to watch the bike riding.

Cute spectator

Scout watched, too.  He was mostly just hoping someone would throw the ball, throw the ball, throw the ball.

Erin can't throw the ball.  Eat the ball?  Sure.  Drool on the ball?  Yep.  Throw the ball?  Not so much.

Dex helped Erin do her very first swinging.  Dexter loved it.  I'm not sure Erin was quite so delighted.

YAY!  They threw the ball!!!

Hi Daddy!

Here's the sick baby this morning.  She can't breathe through her nose, but she's still fairly chipper.  Dexter is in a pretty good mood, too.  Me?  I kinda want to take a nap on the couch.