SPRING!!!

Actually, it's been more like summer the last few days.  A record of 81 degrees Thursday, and yesterday it was 85!  I broke out the few items of maternity capris, shorts, and short sleeved shirts I have, and it's exciting to have something different to wear, after wearing the same four pairs of pants and seven or eight shirts for the last several months, even if it IS maternity clothes!  (I actually have a ton of summer stuff that generous friends have given or loaned to me, but sadly, most of them don't fit, so I'm pretty limited in what works).  I'm not complaining....I'm still excited to have different clothes to wear, and especially for the beautiful, warmer weather that allows me to wear them!

So with the warm weather means LOTS of playing outside.  To say Rachel loves playing outside is a huge understatement.  She'd rather play outside than do just about anything, I think.  We've been outside every possible moment these last few days.  She comes in for her bath at night dirty and scraped up and oh so happy!  What does she do outside all day?  Bike riding, swinging, sliding, climbing, soccer ball kicking, bubble blowing, leaf raking (we have a big oak tree which sheds its leaves in the spring, so she and Daddy have been raking those up this week), rock collecting, cloud gazing, pirate pretending, t-ball hitting....and we haven't even broken open the sand box yet!  She's having a great time.

I'm FINALLY feeling better this week and have been able to be out and enjoying it, too, though I'm reaching the uncomfortable pregnancy stage of waddling and feeling like my skin just can't possibly stretch anymore, especially in the evening, after being up and around all day long.  How can it stretch for 8 more weeks?  I can't imagine.

Today was a busy day....my brother's neighborhood has a monsterous Easter egg hunt every year, and I took Rachel up this morning again (she went last year, too).  She had a great time collecting eggs and playing with her cousins.

Then I had a baby shower to go to (not for me....for a friend who is due a week before I am).


After dinner we colored Easter eggs. It was Rachel's first time, since Easter has always been right around her birthday and coloring eggs has always kind of gotten lost in the shuffle. I only boiled six eggs because I knew we wouldn't eat very many, but she had a great time (pictures in another post...they're on a different camera and haven't been downloaded yet)

And while she's up in the bathtub right now, the Easter Bunny just stopped by and put her Easter basket together!  She'll be an excited girl tomorrow morning.