Spring is coming!

Well, another happily uneventful week has passed.   The highlights were Susannah's first time back at ballet class, the re-opening of our favorite neighborhood ice cream shop, the first sixty degree temperature of the year, and a tiny little bit of progress with Sarah Avery's refusal to eat solids.     Here are some photos.....

Susannah has been looking forward to going back to ballet for weeks now.   

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When did she get so tall????    She and Miss Helen were very excited to see each other.  

This week, I abandoned fruits and veggies and tried rice cereal instead.   

While we didn't have great success,

she did eat several bites in a row before pitching her usual fit.   Baby steps of progress.  ;)

In other news, she is sitting up really well now and doesn't topple over any more.   

This is where she spends a lot of her time.   

Friday morning Susannah woke with a cold, so we stayed home from school in our pjs.   I had already packed her lunch when we decided to keep her home, so she had a little picnic in the living room.   

We decided to use her afternoon energy boost and the over-ripe bananas in our fruit bowl for some yummy banana bread.  

When Daddy got home, he decided to take the girls to the wine store for a little field trip.  

Sarah Avery had never ridden in the baby bjorn.   New perspective on the world for her.  

Silly Daddy

This is a great illustration of parts of our weekend.   Among Susannah's cold symptoms of runny nose and cough and fatigue, she also experienced occasional bouts of dramatic tears and emotional fits.   

But we still managed to have lots of fun family playtime all weekend. 

And by Saturday afternoon, Susannah was in need of some fresh air.   She and Peter went for a walk and discovered that our favorite ice cream shop has reopened for spring!!!   

Sunday we skipped church as to not share Susannah's germs, but we had to venture out into the sixty degree sunshine in the afternoon.   It was one of those spring days when the temperature feels perfect and the sun's warmth reassures you that winter is almost finished.

Remember how excited we were about our ice cream shop's reopening?   So were all these other people.   Yes, this is a line for ice cream.   People are hungry for spring.

This is how we felt about the line, so we opted to head home instead.  

Susannah is feeling better this morning, as evidenced by before school story-time with her little sis.   

Hope all of you are well and are enjoying some nice spring weather wherever you are.   We love and miss you all!