Spring is here!

Hello! It's been a little while since I last updated my blog. We are spending as many hours possible outdoors which leaves little time to be on the computer. Lake and Harper love the warm weather and are enjoying Spring. Lake has been riding his bike and is doing very well. He rode uptown and back twice in the last two days. We have had a few falls and some pretty nasty looking ouwies, but he seems to forget about them and keep on going.
Harper has also had her first official ouwie. She fell a couple weeks ago while running on the sidewalk. Josh was gone for a few days and wanted me to send him a picture of her ouwie. This was the first night, and by morning her eye was swollen shut partway. Good thing she is tough!

My Mom and I went down to KC for a few days last week to spend time with Christina, Scott and the boys. We were so busy I didn't take any pictures except for the one below.

This is their attempt at making a silly face. Christina took a few more so hopefully she'll put them up on her blog. (hint hint:))

We have ants taking over our front yard. I'm not too excited about their multitude of ant hills that they are creating, but Lake and Harper have already spent hours watching them. Lake is trying to teach Harper that you don't want to step on their "home," but she doesn't seem to care most of the time.

This is Harper's way of saying "where did they go?" Harper is saying a hand full of words but does most of her communicating with sign language, facial expressions and occasional high pitched sreams...meaning she's not too impressed with what is happening at that moment. We are definately seeing her personality coming through more and more everyday.

"over there!"

Lake lets them crawl up and down his arm.

Daddy reading the Cat book to Harper. Lake and I have had no luck talking Josh into getting a cat, so now it's Harper's turn.

Harper loves being outside almost more than Lake does. She is constantly finding shoes around the house and bringing them to me and then pointing to the door.

This is her new facial expression. She makes this face when she has discovered something that makes her happy...typically a bird or a plane.

Lake is very proud of his tomato plants. A few weeks ago he told me he wanted to plant something so we went to Walmart and bought tomato seeds and a pot. I'm pretty impressed that I have managed to keep them alive, but Lake has high hopes that we will eventually find a home for the plants outside and then that they will produce fruit. I do not have a green thumb, and usually fail when it comes to keeping a plant or flower alive, but Lake doesn't know that. He talks about growing beans and cucumbers and even watermelon in our backyard. :) I am starting small and we'll see where these tomato plants take us.