Outside for Spring

Spring Break was upon us! We did all of our normal "break" activities like haircuts, doctor visits, dentist visits, vet visits, house cleaning/organizing but still managed to have fun...mostly OUTSIDE! 

So thankful for the sun. 

I love when Anderson keeps up with Max at the park for me. He really can be the best big brother. This visit lasted about 2 hours (my kids have outdoors' endurance...it's called boy) and ended with Anderson playing football with a kid he met and Max crashing some kids' construction equipment. 

Feeding  GG's ducks! It is hilarious to watch these ducks frantically waddle to the steps when Toni opens the door. 

My greatest dream is that my kids love the library and, so far, things are going well in that regard. Anderson loves to pick out books in "his section", which is all of the juvenile nonfiction. We always leave with a collection of animals, sports and science related things like tornadoes. Also, he has decided that he likes "Fact Shows", as he calls them, on Netflix. These are the Nature & Science documentaries and we have seen an exciting array of topics like "Dino Fish" and "Deadly tornadoes." Before you start thinking that my kid is really smart, remember that his favorite phrase is "Butt-fart", so it is all relative. 

Back to outside...the library has this awesome outdoor area with a creek and room to run and random animal statues that Max loves. Beaver!!

One day we hit up Ijams and Max took a selfie with a digger. ( I actually took it, but it looks like a selfie, doesn't it?)

Max is the most amazing not even 2 year old in the world. He literally spent hours walking trails with us didn't even get super grumpster until the very end.

A teacher that I work with met us there with her daughter and she was hilarious and might have been a little traumatized by Anderson constantly playing with the dead reptiles that we found. 

Found a glass jar that made it's way to my house. This was his favorite part of the day. 

We also caught a tadpole/lizard? It looked like a tadpole, but it was sort of big, so maybe a lizard? There was not much out because, I don't know, it was SNOWING 2 weeks ago. 

Anderson had soccer practice only one day during spring break (I was hoping for more because this is the one week that it is not difficult for me to try & make it on time) and I was there for maybe 20 minutes before I left him with Brandon & took Max home. I hate missing his practices, but NOT having to chase Max at a sporting event is sort of amazing. 

He really thinks he is 7. I don't know if it is because he is a boy or because he is 2nd born, but the kid is not going to sit on the sideline and eat a snack or play with a random toy or even my phone. He will not rest until he is in the middle of the action. 

*Also, the gloves. They were Anderson's "receiver gloves" that he got for Christmas and Max has totally domineered them. He wears them everywhere. 

I thought I was failing when I couldn't keep pants on them and now, I realize, I have reached an even lower level of parenting. 

Climbing a tree at GG's house. 

HOURS is how much time we spend outside when it is nice and we don't have to go anywhere. Chalk, basketball, bubbles, digging, driving, finding bugs and worms all while making fashion statements.