Although there have been a couple of cooler days mixed in, we have been taking advantage of the warmth. We have spent a good bit of time in the yard both on days home and also in the evenings after work. We have been regulars at the local parks and have been biking the last 2 Sunday afternoons.
We put in our "redneck sprinkler system" where we zip-tie garden hoses to our chain link fence and even added a timer this year so that we don't have to turn them on and off! Spring maintenance was done on the yard and Derek gave the yard our first mowing of the season. Carder saw the mower and had to run inside to get his mower so that he could help Daddy mow the grass. He actually got upset this weekend when Derek started the mower while he was getting ready to go down for a nap because he wanted to go outside and help.
This was just a regular weeknight getting ready for bathtime, but I loved the way Carder was looking up at his Daddy.
On Sunday, we went out shopping after Church and bought Carder's birthday gift from us. He will get plenty of gifts for his birthday and is too young to know the difference right now, but we wanted him to have an outdoor basketball goal. His indoor one (the one we bought him at Christmas thinking it would last a while) is as tall as it will go and he he keeps asking for it to be higher. We ended up buying a youth goal that will raise up to about 6 1/2 feet. Right now it is at 4' 9". He isn't making a ton of shots, but he hits the rim on a regular basis. And he is loving it. We have had a few meltdowns because he isn't scoring as often as he would like, but that will get better with time. And he seems pretty determined because he keeps trying. We have had to literally tear him away from his "outside basketball goal". Here he is shooting some hoops as we were outside on Monday afternoon. I think his form is pretty good for not even being 2 yet.
We also bought him a couple of big balls. Yesterday he spent a good 10 minutes running around and jumping on the ball and then flipping over onto the grass. He had such a blast doing this.
In the last few days, we have discovered that bugs actually exist outside the pages of the books we read. Yesterday we spent quite a bit of time looking for and looking at bugs. I taught him to stay away from the flying bugs with yellow and black stripes. He was facinated with a large ant that I let crawl on my hand - although he had no interest in letting it crawl on him. And we spent at least 15 minutes watching these tiny little ants in the crack of our sidewalk...he was facinated.
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