Good times

We've had a lot of really nice days here. Yesterday, Olivia decided to see if Daddy had a key hidden outside in case that the family was locked out. It was just after lunch around one and the kids and I went outside to play. We played and played and walked around the trail and made sand castles and strangely enough when Mommy came home around four we decided that we'd had enough and that we should go inside.

Zach has been testing his abilities with going down stairs. He crawl up near the stair and lay down on his belly. He'll reach his chubby arm out to the step and undulate his stomach forward to get some weight going down and he kindof flops down the first step. The next one is a little more difficult because he doesn't have the time to prepare his arms forward as gravity pulls him. He's getting better though and usually does OK if we hold his waistband.

We pulled a lot of weeds this afternoon. Zach and I started out in the mulch and he had fun puttering around. Olivia came out later and was a big help carrying the piles of weeds and throwing them in the woods. She would start out with arms full of grass and as she would run it would trail off behind her and by the time she got to the edge of the yard, she just had a bit left but showed great pride in her accomplishment for Daddy.