Spring Break!

We spent the first half of spring break with a fever.  Poor boy had hand foot and mouth virus again.  He and Lily both had it the summer they were one and three.  I sorta thought it was a one time thing but apparently not, according to the doctor.  We were especially sad b/c Peter LOVES his cousin, Liam.  Liam was coming to visit for his spring break.  We had plans.  (Famous last words!)  Peter was super excited and kept anticipating his time with Liam.  About a week before his arrival, he said "Mommy, why is it taking soooo long for Liam to get here on the airplane from Minneapolis?!"  So it was heartbreaking for him to have to be quarantined. We just sorta didn't tell him.  And Mike and Lily or Lily and I would sneak off for secret visits (heartbreaking).  But finally, we decided that on Wed, Liam's last day, that we HAD to let them see each other.  So we met at a park.  Sweet boy was still trying to regain his strength (and starting to get bumps around his mouth).  His doctor really impressed me with her diagnosis (I already love her) but he only got the spots around his mouth 5 days after his fever started (and never any on his hands or feet.  Thank God.).

We forgot sunglasses and Peter has the most sensitive eyes so we borrowed some from Goo.  Cute, huh?!

Goo also brought all of us a picnic birthday lunch and cupcakes!  Thanks, Goo!

We wanted to be especially careful b/c this sweet baby was in town.  We all got to meet Baby Anna for the first time.  Such a sweet, sweet, hoped for gift from God.  

 The three big kids had fun together!

On Thursday eve, we headed to the river.  (And Peter got more bumps.  He sorta reminds me a cute teenage boy here!)  He was happy to just be able to pretend drive the boat.  Its the little things.

 Handsome, sweet man.

Our other BIG reason for going to the river was to celebrate PAW'S BIRTHDAY!

He had plenty of help with his candles!

 We all took a nice, refreshing walk on Saturday and stopped to see the horses.

 The horse wanted to eat Paw's watch.

 Lily practiced her slack line walking!

 We walked down to the neighborhood dock.  So pretty!

The kids saw the dock, looked it over,

and knew immediately that it had to be the bridge for the Billy Goats Gruff.

The littlest billy milly goat is trit-trotting over the bridge.

Here comes the biggest billy goat.

 And he throws frows the troll in the water!

(They pretended this over and over and over.  I love it.)

 Oh my kids.  I didn't notice til I uploaded these that they are holding hands.  My heart.

 Then they had a BALL painting with the water and could have kept on for hours!

They love some Daddy.  I do too.

 We finished off the weekend with a bike ride through one of our favorite parks!

We are so happy that spring weather has finally arrived!