Sunday, August 31, 2008

Springtime....finally!

Tomorrow is officially the first day of Spring, and today was a good indication of just that. It was a gorgeous sunny day with no wind. GORGEOUS. I almost forgot how much I missed the sunshine. I can't even begin to describe how the recent bout of sunshine has lifted my spirits. It has been a horrible wet winter - and being trapped inside a cold house with a little baby is no fun. No, I'm not exagerating here...even the old time locals will back me up on this one. It was a bad winter.

The weather, my new ipod (I can now listen to music while I walk.....ahhh...heaven...), and a fantastic day at the park with Luca just really made my day. The Esplanade was packed with families. Kids everywhere. I guess I wasn't the only one that was feeling good about the sunshine, b/c just about every kid under the age of 8 was also at the park today. Luca was captivated with the feeling of grass under his hands. Sticks, duck feathers, and magnolia flowers kept him entertained. I'm LOVING the warm weather, and LOVING the ipod. You couldn't wipe the grin off my face if you tried.
Speaking of Loving...ditto goes for my florist class I'm taking through the local adult education center. Every week I come home with a new creation - this was last weeks...it was just for practice (which is why the candle and flowers don't exactly match) but still fun non the less. I'm enjoying working with flowers so much that I'm seriously considering taking more classes on the subject.
At last week's coffee group I came up with the great idea of taking a pic with all the babies sitting next to each other. Yeah, right...try to get 9 8-month old babies to all sit still at the same time. Many of the babies are crawling now so it made it even harder. The best I got was 5 babies. I find this photo really funny b/c Tom looks like he is pushing Zeke off the couch (yeah Fran...I know...Zeke...same name as your old dog!?) Luca's in the green plaid shirt. Not so hard to get his photo though b/c he's mastered the art of sitting. No crawling for us. Not yet anyways.

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