The weather has been beautiful the last couple of days and we've been very grateful to get out of our house. We have a nice little grass area that's fenced in behind our apartment complex where the kids can go to play. The last few days I've been taking Lincoln and Ivan out there. Lincoln plays and Ivan is really good to just sleep in his car seat. He's five weeks old in this picture. He looks so peaceful. When we are outside and the weather's nice and lots of kids from the complex are playing together and the moms are sitting on the picnic bench chatting, life seems so good. I forget about being couped up in the house, and not getting any sleep, and Aaron having to start school again in a few days. That's why I love spring so much I guess, it's easy just to go outside and see the buds on the trees and the green grass and feel the light breeze and just be content with life for a moment.
Here are Ivan and I in our house yesterday, getting ready for the BBQ we planned to have with our home teachers and their families. The weather got over cast and kind f windy, but we went to the park and had the BBQ anyways, because we are desperate for the spring season to be here and to stay, and thought maybe if we started engaging in weather appropiate activities we might help things along a little. :) We had a nice time visiting with the families and watching the little kids play on the playground. Both of the families have little girls so Lincoln was a bit out numbered, but he didn't seem to mind too much. It's interesting to me the difference between boys and girls, even at such a young age. They just play differently. Watching the kids play and noticing this reality, kind of made me think about how God really did make us each to be gender specific, our spirits are either male or female, and then we come to this Earth that way, and we have certain roles to fulfill and we are prepared to fulfill them. It was just kind of a cool ah-ha moment that clicked in my mind.
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I totally agree with you on the gender thing. Benson is a total boy and it suprises me when I see him playing with girls his age, because they are completely different. Also, I took some pictures at a preschool the other day and most of the boys were dirty before they got their pictures taken, but the girls sat very still and didn't run or play because they didn't want to "mess up their hair"... it's very funny and totally amazing how it all works out.
what adorable boys you have! (that includes you too aaron:) Ivan has changed so much! already getting chubby! he's so cute! i wish we could be there to play at the park and make cardboard forts with you guys!!! i'm so sad i have to wait till august to see you.
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So true... Andy tried so hard to make Baylee be a boy. He dressed her in boy clothes, gave her balls to play with, and refused to put a bow in her hair. And she STILL wants to be a ballerina princess when she grows up :-) Ha ha boys will be boys and girls will be girls!
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