Springtime and a New Bunny

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

This year Z's class has been performing a series of plays.  Z was cast as the main character in The Lying Shepherd (The Boy Who Cried Wolf).  We worked many weeks memorizing his lines, and he did a great job!

Changing Seasons

Eden's 4th

Eden's 4th birthday was March 25.  We are having a hard time believing she's four, but she is embracing it!  Every day she declares some new thing she can do because she is four!  Today it was opening her own car door from the inside, while still strapped into her car seat.  She'd never been able to reach it before.  When I exclaimed about how big she was, she just looked at me and said, "Mama, I'm four now."  So obvious.

For her birthday we went to the hotel, swam in the pool, had a Frozen birthday cake (like the movie, not like an ice cream cake) and watched hotel TV.  A fine time was had by all, especially the birthday girl!

This picture is at home with the present from Evie and Libby -- balancing ballerinas!  Eden made this tower by herself!

Tracks

A couple of weeks ago when it was still freezing cold, we walked across the frozen river into Iowa.  The river in our back yard is actually the state line, so once you cross over, you're in an Iowa state park called Gitchie Manitou State Park.  It's pretty cool.  We walked back into the woods and the kids made a great fort in an huge tree that had fallen over.  We saw several different animal tracks, which fascinated Eden in particular.  She noticed that each one of us made different tracks because we were all wearing different kinds of boots.  We were back on the beach and Nathan had walked away and around a bend where we couldn't see him, but Eden found his tracks and decided to follow them.  She was so excited when they led us right to him -- success!  On our way back she noticed a different set of tracks and knelt down to get a good look at them.  I asked her whose track they were, and she said,, "They're mine!"  She looked hard at them again, then stood up, scanned the horizon like John Wayne in The Searchers, and muttered to herself, "Where are you, Eden?"

Quotables from Z, Age 7

[While changing his clothes.]  "This scene is rated DL: Don't look."

[In response to the suggestion that he delete some game apps from the Kindle.]  "Why don't you delete some books?"

[In response to most anything, waving his hands.] "Flap-flap."

Lunch at Home

Check out the show Eden and I saw at lunch today!