The BEST medicine

We are finally starting to recover from all the yucky sick bugs that have invaded our home this winter. What could be the best treat for that? Why a BEAUTIFUL spring day spent playing in our backyard of course! I was so excited to be able to put the kids in shorts/capris and just a shirt today that after Robby's morning nap we headed outside for most of the day. We simply played and enjoyed the warm sunny weather together which was ohhh so fun. We even sat on our little picnic bench and had lunch outside. After the afternoon kiddy naps I dragged them outside once again to enjoy the warm weather. We even loaded up in the wagon and took a nice long walk around our neighborhood. What a perfect day it was! The funniest part was that by the time we went to bed it had started raining outside. I am seriously so glad we took the opportunity to enjoy our perfect day.... I just can't get enough of this little girl. She is so funny. She is obsessed with wallets at the moment. She calls it her "pocket" and is constantly asking to play with our wallets. Maddie will spend all day pulling all the cards out and back in the wallet. The only problem is that she keeps losing my bank debit card...yikes! She absolutely insisted I put her hat on before we went outside and she absolutely HAD to wear her pink crocs as well. She has probably worn these shoes every waking minute of her life for the past two weeks. When she wakes up in the morning, she opens her closet and will pull out every shoe in there until she finds these shoes. She will then happily parade around the house in her princess pajamas and crocs!

And yes... it is official, Robby is now walking. I guess he really has been walking since around his first birthday a few weeks ago. But, just in the past few days he will actually purposefully let go of an object and walk away. He also will walk all the way across the room to me, instead of crawling. He tends to start out looking happy enough, but as he gets closer to me he starts to cry or whine and inevidently those little hands raise up in the hopes that he will then be picked up. Aahhh, he is just a tAd bIt of a momma's boy, but I seriously love it (most of the time :)

I guess I went a little crazy with the day and seriously pulled like half of the toys from our family room out onto the back lawn so we would have plenty to do! LOVE IT!! That's all I can say about his picture. I know it's a tad blurry thanks to my pro skills with the camera :), but this is such the Madison we know and love at our house! She was playing peek-a-boo with me during this picture. She would turn her head away from me and I would pretend like all of a sudden I could no longer see her. Then she would turn back and laugh like crazy when I acted surprised by her....so funny~

Robby has taken a new liking to the flowers in our front yard. While left all alone with them, he decided to try them out to see how tasty they were. Judging from the look on his face at the end...he obviously didn't like them as well as he thought!