I think it might be spring....

We spent Sunday afternoon walking around DC and taking in all the beautiful blossoms. (Sam and I noted that less Sunday meetings was a definite perk of Sam's calling as seminary teacher.) It was one of those perfect spring days. Temperatures in the upper 60's, blue skies with just the perfect amount of white puffy clouds. The kind of day you take for granted while living in San Diego. The kind of day you really appreciate after a cold gray winter. The kind of day you thought would never come when the first official week of spring was in the 30's and 40's.

The peak of the cherry blossoms are suppose to be this coming weekend, but it sure seemed to me that there were plenty of other blossoms peaking on Sunday. We spent most of our time strolling through the gardens behind the Smithsonian Castle. And then headed up to the Washington Monument where the kite festival filled the skies with all sorts of kites. I've started a list of things to do this spring - before the heat and humidity start to hit. This was one of them. Here's to checking off many more!

Perfectly Perched

After a fun evening at the Mitchell's home, a much to early morning waking (5:30 AM???), and a long day at church, Harrison fell fast asleep perfectly perched on two couch pillows. He slept just this way for 2 hours. I just love how his feet are crossed in the back propping his cute little tush up into the air!

Singing

Here's a couple more videos of Noah's latest singing. It always helps me remember - there are some really cute fun parts about being almost 2!

Good-Night Song

Last night Sam and Harrison were out home teaching, so I got to put Noah down all by himself. He amazed me with his singing! Not that it was in perfect pitch, but he knew so many of the words. I video taped the 2nd round of "I Love to See the Temple" - it wasn't quite as good as the first time, and he was pretty distracted by the image of himself he was watching the whole time - but still so cute!

Quiet Sunday

We had a quiet Sunday for the first time in a long time. Most of the bishopric was out of town, so Sam had no meetings all day (except for the 3 that we all go to...) and miraculously the boys entertained themselves for a good long while when we got home from Church. Check out the video below. Harrison loves to play on the computer, and his latest favorite is a text editor. He just likes to type out letters and ask me what it spells. I have memories of doing this same thing on our family typewriter way back when. Yesterday he managed 2 words: Mom and zoo. I was pretty impressed. And Noah has taken quite a liking to reading books to himself. He'll sit there and flip through pages of almost any book. Yesterday he flipped through all my Relief society manuals from the past few years and "Personal Finance for Dummies". Maybe he can catch me up on what I've been missing :)