Sunshine Makes Us Happy.....

So the weather has finally shifted and it seems that more and more the days become warmer and warmer....even when it's raining. We love this time of year. Everything comes to life and we can get outside and do so many of the things we love. We are getting ready to plant our vegetable and herb garden, and hopefully I'll have time to plant some flowers too. We will probably pull the hammock out this week (thanks to the Freuds we've been "borrowing" it for the last few summers...one of these years we will have to buy our own!) We just bought a bike trailer to pull Norah in so we are real excited about that, especially Randy who just loves his bike...you would have thought he was a little kid and it was Christmas morning when that thing was delivered to our house!! We have started looking at the calendar to see when we can get out and go camping and wondering "hmmm how will this look with a baby this year?" We are ready to give it a go because it's one of our favorite things to do in the summer and we figure we might as well break Norah in early.

Norah has been loving being outside too. She loves the jogging stroller, the Kelty backpack, sitting out on the deck, and playing in the grass. Her newest thing is that she loves to STAND on the deck. This is crazy to me....is she old enough to do this I wonder? But she does it. She is getting strong enough she practically pulls herself up and just holds on to the deck spindles and stands there and babbles away and thinks it's just the coolest thing ever. She is so badly wanting to move but not real interested in crawling yet, although she did just start crawling backwards a little bit on Sunday. I think before I know it she is going to be moving all around and my world will never be the same! Already the other day the exersaucer was too close to the wall and she got real quite and I turned around to realize she was sticking her fingers in the outlet! I'm not sure I'm ready for the 'moving' phase. :)

Standing tall and exploring what is beyond the confines of the deck!

This is where she's been eating most of her meals lately...picnics on the deck!

I picked up this little tent last summer at a garge sale and it's so fabulous to put her in when we are out on the deck so she doesn't get a sunburn. She seems to enjoy it except for the day when the wind blew so hard it blew the tent around a little bit and knocked her over....that day not a fan of the tent. The funny thing is we were packing up her tent the other day and I noticed the tag on it said "FOR INDOOR USE ONLY!". Now why would I need a tent indoors?

This is a frequent expression of our little girl...she has a lot to say these days! My little social butterfly.