A Smattering of Springtime

Family Play Day!

The garden is coming along. We just planted more cucumbers, two butternut squash, two cantaloupe, oregano, and a strawberry patch today! Here's to hoping this is going to be our best gardening year so far! 

Our caterpillars are getting big! Maysie wasn't too sure about having it crawling on her :) As per the instructions we were supposed to leave them inside their little tiny containers til they formed a chrysalis, but we felt sorry for them not being able to climb around on twigs and leaves so we let them out to play on an apple branch in their big cage. They look happier.

We've been practicing on our new bikes! Elise is getting really good at zooming around. Maysie is continuing to work on her balance. She had training wheels on her last bike but Mark doesn't want them to handicap her improvement. We'd been trying to practice a bit each day, but then I tweaked my silly knee so daddy will have to take over for a couple days..

Maysie grew a bunch of flowers from seed this year. We took a few pony packs to Grama and Grampa Varozza today and planted them. I planted a cucumber and basil and will pick up one more tomato for Grampa, because you can't have a cucumber salad without tomatoes! We had a very nice visit. Grama gave the girls way too many cookies ;)

First homemade popsicles of the season. Fresh-squeezed orange with mango and coconut milk.