Lately (come on spring...)

Spring is so close... We are ready for it!  We've had a good mixture of cozy, late-winter activities and lovely early spring excursions lately...

James loves making graphs lately (probably because it's the only time mama gives him candy...)

We had some odd weather last week (for NC - we don't get tornadoes here often... we are far more used to hurricanes!) - thankfully we didn't have any problems other than this brief flood in the backyard.





Post-storm sunset reflecting on the clouds



Homemade stock (winter lingers...)



A cold-day trip to the museum with Mema and Uncle Matt, Aunt Mere and Canaan









Bread-baking!  I accidentally used pastry flour instead of normal, so the texture was a little weird, but still good!  I'll try the same recipe again with the right flour and hopefully it will be awesome.



Sam is climbing on all.the.things (James never really did this, so I'm not sure what to do about it?!), and his most recent excursion was into the washer, where he got stuck and couldn't figure out how to get back out (he's also very sensitive, so bring on the tears...).  Am I a bad mom for laughing?





Band practice







More baking - this time, a pie for a church event (Hymn Sing & Pie Night -- it's as wonderful as it sounds!)





Handsome boy before church



Sam's 18 month check up with Dr. Pickens - it was quick and easy because he's the most perfect specimen of an 18 month old that ever was.  Easy in all the ways (so far...). 80th percentile for weight at 26lbs 9 oz (continues weighing in the same as his 3-year-old brother).



We put a screen door up on the back porch!  Yay spring is coming...