I’d only been on antibiotics for a day, but those magic pills made such a difference! While I still had some signs of strep – a very sore throat, but the dizzy, achy, sick feeling had pretty much gone away. I was happy and relieved to be able to join in the Easter Day activities:)
After we got home from Terry’s we played outside for a while. Sylvie’s loving her trike.
Spooky and Bowser are enjoying a breath of fresh air. Bowser’s weight is up to 9.5 lbs, so he’s no longer emaciated and dropping. They still are eating some very expensive hypoallergenic food (rabbit), but other than that, he’s also off his extensive meds. Hope he’s better…whatever it was that was causing the problem!
Sylvie brought some of the eggs outside and was having fun re-hiding them.
Cute girl!
In the afternoon, we headed out to Cherokee Marsh. We decided to see if we could find any dragons. Little, friendly dragons, not much bigger than a bird. Andrew brought along his bug catcher net for dragon catching.
Activity 1: jumping off a stump.
Big ‘ole Andrew strong and brave.
Kids skipping toward the water, hoping perhaps to find a water dragon. Would they be blue? Better look hard, they’ll flash by before you can see!
Hmm, what do you think scratched away at this tree trunk? A deer? A beaver? A dragon?
I love this picture! Two kids, exploring the world.
Cherokee Marsh in April. Bryan has been kayaking around here and really enjoys it.
Kids running down a forest path in the spring.
Some spring ephemerals are blooming. Anyone know what this one is? Anne?
Moss and fresh leaves. Sylvie stopped in her tracks when she saw this bright patch of beautiful moss.
Girl in the woods.
Heading down the hill. I was happy we didn’t run into any ticks on this outing. Or maybe Bryan did find one. But no ticks that dug in…
The spring peepers (teeny tiny frogs…see a photo and hear their song here) were peeping their hearts out in a pond. The noise was like a roar. We sat for a long time on the board walk, listening for the peepers and looking for a glimpse of one.
Sylvie was quite amused by using sticks to dig around in the water for dead vegetation.
Andrew, meanwhile, used his bug/dragon catching net as a pond scum catcher.
A Canada Goose was nesting nearby. Bryan’s pointing it out to Sylvie.
Not much better than spending time outdoors together as a family.
No dragons were found on this trip (although Andrew thought he saw a flash of shimmering gold). We’ll try again soon…
Before getting back into the cars, we did the obligatory playtime on the big rocks by the parking lot.
Brown-eyed Andrew
I was admiring Andrew’s beautiful baby teeth (I don’t tell him they are baby teeth, or he would probably not be too pleased). Not too long, and he’ll have one, two, four, eight big teeth filling that little mouth. I treasure his sweet five-year-old smile.
He thought he could stop me from tickling and photographing him. Nope!
So glad I have these images of my little boy filled with mirth!
I believe it is toothwort! A lovely one. Also, I love the word mirth. One of my favorites.
Word mirth!? What a great name for a plant! Thanks, Anne, for your IDs:)
They are adorable!!! So sweet….