A garden adventure

We made our way to our Garden for our first time in awhile to see if we could spot any signs of Spring. We didn't see much Spring evidence, it was mostly wet and cold, but still beautiful.
Mater joined us.

Oh and the matching shirts appeared in their drawers. I knew I had the smaller one but not the larger one...thanks to whomever passed these on to us. We love hand-me-downs. 

 Fascinating brother...

 So I haven't really left the house with my camera in a long time so I may have gone a bit overboard with the photos...so...you're welcome?!

 And all that was just in the parking lot....we meandered into the garden.

This was about a month ago when Edwin was just starting to take off with his walking. I liked his determination.

 Miles was there to help him. Ever since Edwin turned one, Miles has had more interest in playing with him. It's been kinda nice.

Snacking on more dirt...it's his favorite!

And look at that...a tiny bit of Spring was spotted!

I warned you there were a lot of pictures! Hah!

Vancouver City Library

We had a little field trip with our Joy School group about a month ago to the Vancouver City Library. I'd never been here but it is a huge library with a large play area (Children museum style) for kids. 

It was quite the fun outing and I took more blurry photos than otherwise but there you go.

The kids had a little story time at first...notice Miles on the red chair on the left. He's not sleeping, but also not participating. 

 
He likes having his own space and he doesn't really participate, but later he will tell me all about the story or the song and how he really does enjoy it.

 Edwin was just starting to walk more so he went around exploring books.

 After story time...it was playtime...

And I didn't take many photos of playtime...but I like these ones of Edwin.

Field trips are fun, and that's all.

Valentine's Day

Valentine's day was fun and simple. There was the prep work of making Valentines for Charlie's Kindergarten class and Miles' preschool class. And I used it as another excuse to get my kids gifts and books.

 I'm not a huge gift person so my kids weren't expecting anything...which it made it that much more fun to surprise them.
Max had taken Charlie to the store a couple days before Valentine's day and Charlie had seen some glittery purple nail polish and he was super persistent that he NEEDED to get it for me. So my boys ended up giving me a Valentine's gift of a pedicure. It was kind of awesome.

We had a steak dinner then put the kids to bed and had some chocolate covered strawberries. Perfect for us!

I love this Valentine of mine!