the crib part II

 

 

 

Jackson and his crib

 

 

 

 

ahhh spring!

Charlie has pajamas that say "I love frogs, bugs and mud". Thought these pics were appropriate.

 

 

 

Charlie slipped in the mud and his bottom was covered. He loved it, thought it was the funniest thing.

 

The kids are 'washing' their hands in the clover.

riding bikes

Daddy came home with a nice surprise on Friday, a big boy bicycle for Charlie!
Charlie was getting pretty upset when he couldn't push the pedals, but once he figured out the rhythm, he didn't want to stop.

Charlie and Avery riding around on the tennis courts.

 

Racing each other

 

Content Jackson watching from his stroller

 

Our 10 year anniversary

 

Excerpts from The Last Ride Together by Robert Browning

My whole heart rises up to bless
Your name in pride and thankfulness!

I and my mistress, side by side
Shall be together, breathe and ride,

Then we began to ride. My soul
Smooth'd itself out, a long-cramp'd scroll
Freshening and fluttering in the wind.
Past hopes already lay behind.
What need to strive with a life awry?
Had I said that, had I done this,
So might I gain, so might I miss.
Might she have loved me? just as well
She might have hated, who can tell!
Where had I been now if the worst befell?
And here we are riding, she and I.

We rode; it seem'd my spirit flew,
Saw other regions, cities new,
As the world rush'd by on either side.
I thought,--All labour, yet no less
Bear up beneath their unsuccess.
Look at the end of work, contrast
The petty done, the undone vast,
This present of theirs with the hopeful past!
I hoped she would love me; here we ride.

At life's best, with our eyes upturn'd
Whither life's flower is first discern'd,
We, fix'd so, ever should so abide?
What if we still ride on, we two
With life for ever old yet new,
Changed not in kind but in degree,
The instant made eternity,--
And heaven just prove that I and she
Ride, ride together, for ever ride?

independent

Preschool has been great for Avery. She is quickly learning how to be more independent, which includes getting herself dressed in the mornings. She came down the other morning like this

 

Her cute little jeans were on backwards.

bird watching

 

 

Stonewall Crockett

 

This one is for you Jenny!

our afternoon

Sitting at the front windows watching birds. In doing this, we have discovered a mourning dove building a nest in our holly tree. Avery and I have watched 'her' hunt for sticks. Then we started reading more about the doves and found out we are watching the male hunt for sticks while the female stays in the tree. All windows open, listening, smelling and watching spring.

Some cool facts we found:
During nest-building, the female stays at the nest and the male collects sticks. He stands on her back to give her the nest material. She takes it and weaves it into the nest.

The Mourning Dove almost invariably lays two eggs. Clutches of three or four are the result of more than one female laying in the nest. A dove may have up to five or six clutches in a single year.


A Mourning Dove pair rarely leaves its eggs unattended. The male usually incubates from midmorning until late afternoon, and the female sits the rest of the day and night.


The Mourning Dove is the most widespread and abundant game bird in North America. Despite being hunted throughout most of its range, it remains among the 10 most abundant birds in the United States.

www.birds.cornell.edu