Only for Easter

Hear Him, ye deaf; His praise, ye dumb,

Your loosened tongues employ;

Ye blind, behold your Savior come,

And leap, ye lame, for joy.

Wordless Wednesday--To the park!

Thanks to Wordless Wednesday for this excuse to share some of my favorite pics.

Coffee filter spring decorations

We have had the best time lately making these coffee filter prints.

The boys dribbled food coloring onto the coffee filters.  Some of them got pressed together to make symmetric prints, but most ended up pretty random.  They went through an entire container of coffee filters.

Then Noah picked out a few to string up in a garland.

And now we're all decorated for spring!

A word of warning, though:  food coloring stains. 

Half the fun for the boys was getting to use the normally off-limits food coloring, but I'm sure we could have used watercolors with equal success.

It starts early

Several months back, when the boys were having a hard time cleaning up like I'd asked them to, I was inspired.  I grabbed Nate's stuffed lamb, channeled Lamb Chop as best as I could, and had Flower ask them for me.  Presto!  The playroom was clean in no time.  And ever since then I've been periodically bombarded with requests to "Make Flower talk!  Make Flower talk!"

So now the boys are the ones making everyone talk.  Nate, in particular, can give voice to just about anything.  In the last few months he's made a puppet out of a spoon, a cube, a vast assortment of his stuffed animals, an equally vast assortment of matchbox cars, his toes, and, on one pointedly ignored occasion, his penis.

Boys are different.

Train ride

The boys have been begging to go on a train ride lately.  So today, Mark took off from work a bit early and we met up at Ft. Worth's mini train.

A beautiful spring day, a train ride, popcorn, and the playground and a picnic after.  It really doesn't get any better than that.

Imagination chair

A good friend passed on her daughter's outgrown car seat to us, so we'll have one for Nate when Owen needs the convertible one he's in now.  I thought we might put it to good use inside until then.

To make our Imagination Chair, I pulled out some foam stickies and some colorful string.  (I did test the stickies first, and yes, they do come off of the fabric cover easily.)  Then we set out to decorate

and pretend.

Courtesey of Noah--me imagining ice cream was the healthiest food on the planet and could be eaten for breakfast, lunch, and dinner

Noah as a sleeping cat

'Twas Fabulous Fun!

Back to normal

Lovely.