Outdoors Time

The weather here has been beautiful recently, so we have been getting out and enjoying it as often as possible. Both kids love to be outside, as do their Mom and Dad, so we are happily welcoming springtime...and praying winter weather does not return for another 8 months or so. When we go outside, Addie immediately looks for her neighbor friends. They are outside a lot as well and love to come over and play with Addie (they are 6 and 4). When Addie was a baby, I would take her outside and she would be happy to just sit on a blanket and look at books, play with toys, and watch me do whatever-pull weeds, shoot baskets, etc. Not so with Levi. He hates to be put down on the blanket unless someone is going to stay with him to entertain him. Even then, it's not his favorite thing to do. He loved his exersaucer, so I put that outside for him to play in lots of times. Levi also loves to just watch Addie ride her plasma car up and down the driveway-it makes him laugh...I can tell he is so excited to be big enough to be able to do it himself. Both kids also enjoy going on walks, which we do at least once a day when the weather is nice.
Here is our 7-month-old. Yes, he has been 7 months old for almost two weeks now, but I never posted the picture I took to mark the day. Time keeps on flying by and our baby is growing into a little boy. It's exciting, but sad at the same time. They definitely don't stay babies for long! There is no question now as to whether or not he is crawling. He is into everything, but it also allows him to entertain himself more than ever before, so that is nice. We are just having to baby proof more for him then we did for Addie-our non-crawler.

Our double stroller isn't getting a lot of action these days...Addie wants to take Levi on walks, so that is what we have been doing. Walks take quite a bit longer, but it's a lot of fun. Anytime I try to help, even for a second, Addie immediately says, "No, Mommy!"

Levi now gets to take advantage of the ibert as well-he loves it! I think we may need to invest in a helmet for him, seeing as Addie's is bright pink.

Loving every second of it:

I don't know if people are sick of me posting waterfalls pictures on here. If so, I am sorry. We just really love that part of living in this area-all the great places to hike and see waterfalls! At this point, I think Addie would be very disappointed if we went for a hike and she didn't get to see a waterfall-she has come to expect them. On this hike, we went to "Triple Falls" in the Dupont forest. It had rained the week before, so the amount of water on the falls was pretty incredible. We also liked how there were lots of rocks to be able to walk around on at the bottom of the falls. If anyone lives in the area, or visits, we higly recommend this hike and waterfall. The hike wasn't too difficult (and that's with kids on your back), and the falls were beautiful.

That is where we hiked to and walked around-you can only see 2 out of the 3 falls from this perspective, though.

Cheesing it up:

Playing in the water:

There is the whole thing: