First Follower!

I haven't been on in a while, it has been all I can do to read my favorite blogs! I apologize for my lack of entertainment.  Maybe this is why I only have one bona-fide follower, but I know you all are out there because the stats say that you are!  Thanks Carly for being my first! ;)

Onto the good stuff... We have had a lot of spring like days lately and it has been blissful!  I was being to feel that I had lost "it,"  my desire to do anything spontaneous, fun, exciting.  We had become creatures of habit. Monday- groceries, Tuesday- preschool, Wednesday-nothing, Thursday-preschool, Friday-possibly Pump It Up.  I had lost my desire to be outside and moving.  The fact that I am 25 weeks pregnant is not helping me get off my tail either. 

However, in the last week or two we have seen lots of 50-60 degree days, and I have gotten it back.  Either that or I have started nesting.  I believe nesting has something to do with lots of cleaning and organizing, and I am ashamed to say, that is not what has started around here!  We have been what I like to call parking it a lot.  We visited the awesome park in town that has something for everyone, including a bike trail.  The day that we went though the bike trail was a bust because there was 100mph winds, making it impossible to ride anything.  Coolest thing yet, though, happened last week.  We discovered a secret, not half a mile from our house!  We have a new playground, and we found it first!  I don't know that we really found it first, we just got there first!  It is AMAZING and wonderful considering the size of our little community! It has the TALLEST slide, that Preston hugged me tight and we FLEW down! I wish I had had my camera the morning we went and snapped a thousand pictures of the joy of our discovery. 

It was so exciting that as soon as Dad walked through the door he heard all about it, until we loaded up, and walked back to the playground. We wore short sleeves and walked! It was wonderful to have the sun on our backs, heating us, while we walked/waddled back. Preston showed his dad all the cool new stuff, and gave him the grand tour before our secret was discovered by every kid in town within 30 minutes.  It was almost comical at the number of kids pouring out of the minivans!  It was fun to sit back and watch Preston make new friends and learn their games.  It is amazing how much he has grown in the past three and a half years, that now he will play with random kids at the park without us.  It makes me a little sad to see him gain that independence from us, but glad to see that he will be self-sufficient one day!

Today, though, schools were closed, yes, closed.  We got enough ice to make it dangerous for the kids to be out and about (at least at school) today.  I didn't want any part of it.  So we dropped the blinds, stayed in our jammies, and made plans to work on the nursery and get it ready for painting. Then later we planned to fill the tub, and play pool.  That is where we are now. I am typing this from my beach chair in the bathroom, while my little three year old gets wrinkly in his swim trunks.  While typing Buzz and Woody have each had a time out, and now some kind of Tarzan game ensues. It is entertaining. I hope that the promise of 50 degree comes back soon. I don't want to get back in a rut.