a few clips of spring

Today I had a baby who wouldn't nap and a toddler jumping out of her skin. So we took advantage of the lovely spring weather to play in the yard.<br /><br />This quickly turned into "let's pick flowers".<br /><br />One small hitch in this plan though - flowers haven't bloomed in our yard yet (with the exception of some hyacinth that have already been <strike>man</strike> toddler-handled). After a discussion about why picking flowers out of our neighbors yard isn't really a good plan the crowd was starting to turn on me. I offered kick ball, bike riding, a walk, but no takers. It was all about the flowers damn it.<br /><br />So with the natives getting restless and the screams getting louder, I improvised. I got out the clippers and cut off my ears. Just kidding. (I only considered that for a <strike>few minutes</strike> second)<br /><br />We snipped a few branches off our pear tree.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghhyphenhyphenMx9hyphenhyphenHBMq4sdCEX2pCiXt-vXBauIOE9gsuYfOqkz99zqGuNuSOrhQqZmDfYUvkFwx6GghtZnTwIJpm-as1KJa8i8yIRuzBAgKnyPOBzaZ_EcNMaAepoD6LdOyW6LwBEjWNXXc3SYhg/s1600/P3145169.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghhyphenhyphenMx9hyphenhyphenHBMq4sdCEX2pCiXt-vXBauIOE9gsuYfOqkz99zqGuNuSOrhQqZmDfYUvkFwx6GghtZnTwIJpm-as1KJa8i8yIRuzBAgKnyPOBzaZ_EcNMaAepoD6LdOyW6LwBEjWNXXc3SYhg/s640/P3145169.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br />And what does any 4-year-old (or 30-something) want to do with a bunch of cut flowers? Make a "boookay" of course. Amelia wanted to do her own arrangement, as all independent 4-year -olds do, so she got the milk glass and I stuck to the ginger jar. Finally a happy household.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXEiFIfJh07ZBxrwDYUflg0vmjI-eBPrpuwShq1yX3T2k30Tuw__7E6XUiTJGRiWMMf8hWrFnIWubGpMgnLj3CZoPi88JQeOPP3iMH-1EryfpIOFpCJcgCJP5CxmMhsnU0pScqaNNrjZiG/s1600/P3145179.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXEiFIfJh07ZBxrwDYUflg0vmjI-eBPrpuwShq1yX3T2k30Tuw__7E6XUiTJGRiWMMf8hWrFnIWubGpMgnLj3CZoPi88JQeOPP3iMH-1EryfpIOFpCJcgCJP5CxmMhsnU0pScqaNNrjZiG/s640/P3145179.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />And a bit of spring to brighten up the house.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXb8FwRZyQkKVBxLeGb1jmTOpxn6P9DjT7ocrW6_C31PoByLctHs7w4kK8eu8UZEPrjlofPgda_6oCbg9bAYZmHWLBiDn-kKLEprTRVsQ1mNfGVHGof0xJaXXx_NaH86VY70tcqBi4lYU-/s1600/P3145191.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXb8FwRZyQkKVBxLeGb1jmTOpxn6P9DjT7ocrW6_C31PoByLctHs7w4kK8eu8UZEPrjlofPgda_6oCbg9bAYZmHWLBiDn-kKLEprTRVsQ1mNfGVHGof0xJaXXx_NaH86VY70tcqBi4lYU-/s640/P3145191.JPG" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amelia ditched me and took her "boookay" into her room</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbXq22A0AXF_QHxGXbwVU9kiXrdkCDGrQxXGuA2R0JVIgFv_LzxhCYAsNBgQIsndvvBgHnfzhWUzmqLIETpN_l3pGO5Bx6BUH6ier13iOYmLcE1XXWdGXmfbUldT5SXHnyi7Rl02Fu39Ac/s1600/P3145199.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbXq22A0AXF_QHxGXbwVU9kiXrdkCDGrQxXGuA2R0JVIgFv_LzxhCYAsNBgQIsndvvBgHnfzhWUzmqLIETpN_l3pGO5Bx6BUH6ier13iOYmLcE1XXWdGXmfbUldT5SXHnyi7Rl02Fu39Ac/s640/P3145199.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>Have you brought any flowers in from the yard yet? Is anyone else as excited for the peonies to come out as I am? I can smell them now!

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