Spring Fun

 I know that we have been absent from the blog for a while, but it doesn't mean that I haven't thought about blogging. With such a long, cold, drawn out winter, once the weather hit 36*F and sunny, the kids were itching to head outside. We took them to the Henry Villas Zoo in Madison and let them play outside with chalk and sand toys in the driveway.

 

So Easter came and went and we had to adapt a bit since the yards were still covered in snow. The kids had fun dyeing Easter eggs and we hid the eggs in the house for the egg hunt. Jim and I joked that we should just throw out plain, white hard-boiled eggs in the snow and watch the kids try to find them. Even-though we didn't do that, we still found the colorful, plastic eggs for the next couple of days around our house.

 Elizabeth was a proud graduate of her year old preschool class at Westside Christian School. She has grown so much this school year and just thrived there. The teachers were absolutely wonderful and I am sad that she won't be attending her second year of preschool there next year.

 

Spring finally decided to show up in May and the kids were thrilled! Our neighbors found a rabbits nest in their backyard and the kids thought it was fun to see the tiny bunnies. As the weather slowly climbed to the 60's and 70's, we traded our pants for shorts and our mugs of hot chocolate for popsicles. William especially loved eating his first popsicle outside and I enjoyed watching it drip all over him dyeing his skin.

Isaac finished his spring season of soccer with Middleton United and I think he would make any professional soccer player proud with all of his falling down on the field and dramatics even if the ball or player wasn't even near him. He looks forward to playing again in the fall and Elizabeth is excited to start her soccer journey in the fall with him.

The first weekend in May was fun because not only did we go garage-saleing in our town, but we watched the annual Cross Plains Beer Parade. Basically the town gets together and has a pub crawl with the 3 pubs on our Main Street and then there is a parade celebrating beer and how prohibition didn't work. The kids loved gathering the candy that was thrown, watching all the horses, old cars, tractors, and carriages. There were also bands and of course, people dressed up in period clothing holding up signs protesting prohibition and promoting beer drinking and making.

The kids had to get a picture with the mascot for Culver's.

Jim and I decided to take the kids on our last outing to Chicago before I have this baby. We visited our friends, the Fa'anunu's and then got a hotel and took the kids to the Lincoln Park Zoo. As excited as the kids get for staying in a hotel, I seem to dread it more and more. No one ever gets a good nights rest when we are in a new place and we are all sleeping so close to one another. So we embarked on the day at the zoo very tired. The kids had fun looking at the animals but the highlight of their day was looking at the exhibit about poop. We should have only gone there because the kids were fascinated by animal poop.