I am on vacation with my family for the next few days. We are in Florida, and in between rainstorms, we are getting in a little beach time.

Here are a few shots from M & G’s first trip to the beach…

Summer appears to have decided to stick around this time. After all the cold snaps and never ending days of rain, we are finally seeing some nice weather. M & G made good use of it the other night. We worked out in the yard, clearing up a winter’s worth of debris, and they enjoyed every minute of it.

Well, almost.

G was thrilled to be outside. She is going to love playing outside just as much as her big brother. Here she is…all smiles…

But not for long…

M wasn’t doing something to suit her – and she let him know about it…

Those eyes crack me up.

I’m still not sure how someone so little can be SO opinionated. But, she gets it honest, as they say.

From her daddy…

Remember the old Western “Shane”? At the end of the movie, Shane rides off into the sunset,

like all good cowboys do, and the little boy who has become his friend calls after him to come back…

While going through my old files, weeding out and backing up, I came across the set of cowboy pictures I did of M last spring, just over a year ago. He was so into cowboys then – the only way I could convince him to cooperate for pictures was to let him dress up in all his cowboy gear…

Now he has moved on from cowboys, just as he once moved on from Bob the Builder and John Deere Tractors. Today it is Star Wars and Legos, tomorrow, who knows?

A year ago, I thought I would scream if I had to listen to the Lone Ranger and Tonto one more time in the car on the way to Nana and Grandpa’s, if he ran through the living room again firing his toy gun and rolling across the arm of the couch, if I had to have one more battle about why he couldn’t wear Wranglers and cowboy boots to church.

Today, I wonder how it is all going by so quickly. I would gladly welcome the little cowboy and all that went along with him back with open arms.

Come back, Shane…

In honor of the soon-to-be (please, please!) spring weather, Miss G tried out a new hairdo.

At first she wasn’t too sure about it, but then she decided she looked pretty cute.

It didn’t last long though. First the bows went, then the ponytail holders…

We are all getting a little cabin fever here – it has been a long winter, even though we haven’t had much snow, and we are all ready to get outside and play! It doesn’t help that we’ve had so many teaser days with temps around 70, and now they are calling for snow on Monday!

Come on spring! We’re waiting…

M lost his first tooth last night. It has been loose for a couple of weeks, and he has been wondering when it would finally come out. Well, the answer to that is about 4 in the morning. And of course he had to come wake Mama & Daddy up to tell us the exciting news! I was just thankful he didn’t swallow it in his sleep. What he was doing awake at that hour wiggling his tooth, I will never know.

He had lots of offers of assistance with the loose tooth, both from his Daddy and his
Grandpa. My dad loved to trick us into letting him pull our loose teeth when we were
little. “I’m just going to wiggle it to see how loose it is,” he’d say. I’m not sure how many
times we fell for that…more than we should probably admit. What is that old saying?
“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me!” We did eventually learn
our lesson though, so M knew better than to let Grandpa wiggle his tooth.

Grandpa is pretty sure he’ll get the next one though…