Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Spring has Sprung!

The votes are in! It is officially Spring - the magnolia tree in our neighbor's yard sprouted its first bloom on Friday. As of today the entire tree is covered in fragrant flowers - it smells amazing!And this is the first plant in our yard to bloom. I can't remember what it is called...but according to the tag it wasn't even supposed to come back in our planting zone!We took advantage of the warm weather and went to the zoo last Thursday to celebrate Grandpa Bruce's birthday. Here Evan is posing with a sleeping jaguar. What can I say? The kid loves cats.The day we decided to go to the zoo happened to coincidentally be the first day that the baby farm animals were out! It was also the first day of Spring Break, which amounted to about 2,000 extra screaming children at the zoo that day. Evan was yelling a little too loudly at the baby chicks, so I told him he needed to use his "inside voice" and talk quietly. He interpreted this to mean that the chicks needed to be quiet as well, and decided they needed "shushing".Isn't this too cute? I just had to share.And, of course, we ended the day with some awesome temporary tattoos. Unfortunately I made Evan scrub off the one on his neck before Easter. I have no control over Jeremy's hair (aka: the red mohawk), but I didn't want our Easter pictures to turn out with Evan having a frog and fly tattoo on his neck.
The Junior Zookeeper shirt we bought Evan last year is a bit too small. It turns into a belly shirt when he lifts his arms, but hey - at 2 you can get away with that, right?

1 comment:

Darren, Jennie, Brynn, and Cara said...

Evan is getting so big! We HAVE to get together soon!!