All by himself

Lucas has been able to balance and peddle his bike for months. But today he mustered up the courage and figured out how to start out ON HIS OWN! Watch and see!

Gymnastics II

The chin - up bar.

Abrianna's version of the tunnel.

Gymnastics

Preparing for the forward roll!

Finishing the forward roll ( darn camera. too slow)

The Tunnel

Balancing on the beam.

Wall hand stands.

Happy Playmates

Easter Egg Hunt - a week early.

Pictured above, all the cousins, Seth, Annalena, Zaylie, Jadon, Lucas, Kirsten, and Abrianna.

Look! I found one behind the plant!

Abrianna got the hang of picking up the eggs really quickly. We had sectioned of an area of the lawn for the little babies, Abrianna 11 months and Kirsten 13 months.

Incidentally, one more cute story on our way home was this. My mom bought both kids some toys for the trip home. Lucas had a four-pack of cars.
I dolling them out at the rate of one an hour. I told him he had to wait for his next one until we were at Klammath Falls . Periodically, he would exclaim, "There's Mount Carmel! Can I have my car?" I suppose he must have been remembering his story of "Elijah and the time of no rain."

Natural Bridges

Last Sabbath we drove up to the Natural Bridges in the Mother Lode gold country. This was a favorite place of mine when I was a child. Last time we were there, Lucas was the same age as Abrianna is now.


He insisted on crawling into the icy spring runoff. Brrrr! Abrianna did the same. I took off her diaper and clothes so she wouldn't get quite so soggy. She was having so much fun, despite her trembling chin and goose bumped arms.
I'm surprised at her determination. She slipped and fell face first into the chilly waters, managing to scrape her leg bloody and that didn't deter her either.
The Natural Bridges are a green house for Poison Oak. On the way back up the hill, Lucas crashed into it on his "motorcycle".
When we got home to Grandma's house, everybody had shower and all clothes went directly into the washing machine. Even the motorcycle had a bath with soap.
An unfortunate discovery on the way home is that Abrianna gets car sick. Poor baby:( I do too.
I did have a clean set of clothes and some wipes. She rode on my lap until we were on straighter roads.
I don't think she'd of had that problem in a forward facing seat. We just ordered a booster for Lucas so Abrianna can have is old one and see where she's going, hurrah!

Spring pictures

Here are a couple of springy pictures from our trip to California. I tried to take some of Lucas but he didn't cooperate.