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Saturday, March 31, 2012

March 2012 wrap-up

One of the favorite pastimes at my house is to go through the box of keychains. I picked them up FreeCycle years ago. There are all sort of miniature versions of games, such as Don't Break The Ice. For adult hands, this is incredibly hard to put together. But, Josy delighted when we were able to play.

This is the delight face.

Sitting on the bench in my front garden.

Josy likes butter!

Here we are trying to engineer Don't Break the Ice.

Do you remember a couple of weeks ago and we had pictures of Josy doing a snow angel? Here she is doing a shamrock angel!

Sheepish grin after picking onions in the park.

Sam joined Josy on the bench. The red line connects my daughter with my dog.

They are discussing ways to re-engineer the space shuttle.

My friend Mandi and Josy examine the new sidewalk that has been installed in my neighborhood.

Sam still very much loves his pirate ship.

Sam hugging a cone while we look at how sidewalks are installed.

Sam tries his hand at a shamrock angel!

You may not know this, but pirates are really good at cutting brush with their swords.

Sunday, March 4, 2012

First weekend in March

The very last of Sam's birthday cake as he contemplates being 4 for a full month.

We used to go to Azalea Park all the time, but this was our first return as a family in a very long time.

I like taking Sam and Josephine to construction projects. They seem to like it. We are at the Jefferson Park Avenue bridge replacement. Josy wanted to know why the road was closed so we went up to investigate. I showed them the massive concrete embankments they're building. They really enjoyed it and wanted to keep looking around, but it suddenly started to get cold.

Somewhere I know there's a picture of her as a younger girl in this same spot. I'm amazed at how big she is getting.

I've been cleaning out the games cupboard. That gave Josy the opportunity to be a kitty-cat. Sam's in the background crawling to the potty.

"She's got the whole world, in her hands!"

"She's got the whole world, on her head!" - seriously - the kids love making planets out of Play-Doh, and then little moons to go around them.

We talked for a few minutes about pipes. Are these being put in the ground, or are they the ones that were removed? We didn't know, but I like watching her try to figure out the answer.

This is to document Josephine eating. She had three helpings of mac-and-cheese at lunch. She's growing so fast and needs her fuel.

There is no question this child is mine. And that she is the grand-daughter of my mother and father.

After the JPA trip, we came home with so many rocks. And, Josy decided they needed to be painted. And they were!

Every weekend now we have a Play-Doh factory set up in my house.

Can you see the little boy in this picture?

We took Billy with us to the park, and Sam wanted us to know there was another dog in the park.

This is likely going to be one of my favorite pictures of all time. Sam wanted to wait for Thomas to come. I'm going to have this blown up into a bigger picture, I think. Josephine was asking if the bridge was old, because it was rusted. Apparently, though, that's what VDOT does now. I tried to explain to the kids, but I did show them the sign that said the bridge was manufactured in April 2011.

Dogs dig holes. Little boys like to stand in them. He was overjoyed to be here. There were 10 dogs in the park today, and Sam and Josy were enthralled to be there. They spent so much time there when they were little.