Spring!!!!!!!

We are all very happy about the arrival of spring. It has been a long, cold, snowy winter. But all that is behind us now (knock on wood) and we have been enjoying sunny 70-degree days this week. We've been too busy to get out much to enjoy it, but today I came home at 5 and we squeezed in an hour of outdoor time before dinner.

Nicholas was very excited about going for a walk in his stroller!

From 2010 March

And once he got bored of rolling around, we stopped at the playground a couple blocks away. He enjoyed the swings . . . for brief periods. After a minute or two he would start to get anxious and want out, but for the first couple minutes he thought it was fun. And he kept going back to them.

From 2010 March

But really, in typical Nicholas fashion, he was much more interested in walking around exploring and checking out what all the big kids (and the one very big dog) were doing.

From 2010 March

There are more pictures in The Gallery, but here is my favorite, which I took yesterday evening outside our apartment.

From 2010 March

Spring is here!!! Yay!!!! (And in his sleep Nicholas is now clapping and doesn't know why.)