Birthday Boy

remember this baby boy?

He is celebrating his 2nd birthday today.

He is stubborn.
He loves books.
He hates to wear shoes in the car.
He is a very picky eater.
He gives the best hugs ever.
He is suddenly a chatterbox.
He has the bluest eyes.
He is a big helper around the house.

We love him from his head to his piggy toes.
xoxo

Saturday

Spring Break

We snuck out of town for a few days last week and thoroughly enjoyed the sunny days of spring in the desert. 

Yogis

These boys. 

A few weeks ago, perhaps during that run of snow days we had, coupled with a respiratory bug that ran through our house, I re-introduced the boys to a yoga show we discovered this past summer. Most evenings now the eldest comes home and asks to do yoga. He watches cosmic yoga, a YouTube channel, going through a story told in yoga poses. It is painfully adorable, especially when the littlest one tries to imitate the moves too. 

Mondays are suddenly my new favorite day of the week

Another Monday snow day!

The brown stream in the background is our seasonal stream that flows during summer monsoons and spring melts. Since the weather this weekend was a mix of snow and rain it shouldn't have surprised me to see this flowing, yet it did. We spent a lot if time throwing in snowballs and watching then float away. It's a rainy, snowy, muddy mess out there. 

On writing: paddling

I found this in a pile of papers while cleaning on our snow day Monday. It's been awhile since our last installment of "On Writing". Come to think about it, it has been quite some time since one of these has come home in the backpack. 

Did I mention (sniff, sniff) that we registered this one for Kindergarten (!) last week. How can that be?!?