April

 Melanie loves doing math so much.

 Jennifer went all out and baked a huge batch of muffins. Yum!

 Some rounds of catch were played when evenings weren't wet and cold.

 Nathan bought himself a "new" motor for his go-cart. He's planning on some serious riding.

 Walking through the woods I see some mysterious colours flitting through the trees.

 Enjoying the back space!

 Matthew pushing Evelyn about in the wheelbarrow (after I told her to sit!!)

 Working on "the stick fort".

 I attempted to make a second chicken feeder from containers in our recycling bin. It was a failed attempt.

 Now that the ground is thawed the sand can be played with again!

 Can you tell where the ice rink was?

 School work.

 Working hard so that playing in the sunshine can happen faster!

 Nathan pulled bikes down from the green bin and got as many bikes running as possible out of the supplies available.

 Yup, this one is good to go!

 Melanie using her brother's biek while he's working hard.

 Looking for the neighbour's horses. Not here to pet this time. :(

 Zipping around.

 Mom can you help me with this question?

 Zooom.

 Daniel supervising (and helping?) the bike repairs.

 Oh yeah, I'm still around.

 We had two girls, their brother and parents come by for two nights around Good Friday. What a great time to catch up, and the kids had a hoot together. The four girls slept in one room...or well, spent the night in one room, rather.

 The boys had a hoot with their boy too...racing around outside until after dark...fun times!

And Evelyn has been getting efficient at emptying the dishwasher. Good work! It's a new-to-her chore since her birthday.

Marching into April

 To keep busy as the gardens have to wait I've been trying to propogate some houseplants.

 Some are easy, so they worked. ;)

 I refilled my terrarium...attempt number 5 or 6 to get something beautiful to thrive in there.

 It was wet out. The golf course walk couldn't be done in the regular route on account of flooding!

 Evelyn designed her own terrarium (why a dead plant? well Mom usually has a dead one in hers :p ). Actually, she was just playing with the toys...Nathan was impressed with her scene.

 She still love colouring!

 It was time to say goodbye to the skating rink.

 It's always a lot of fun when all that water comes out.

 That's a lot of water!!

Warm weather!

 Everyone loves being outside when the suns out and the chill is out of the air...from the chickens

to the kids.

Evelyn 6!!

 Where is time going! Jumping on from Matthew's 11th we making cupcakes for a 6 year old!

 Actually Melanie did all the work. :)

 Fresh strawberries as per the birthday girl's request.

 Classic irritated Evelyn look. :o

 Evelyn still offers her help in the kitchen, and thinks sitting on the counter is acceptable.

 She loves books, and will let anyone read to her!

 Her siblings love her too! Daniel made Evelyn a wooden cruise ship. Look, it's Opa and Oma's cruise ship!

 And a combo gift, the wardrobe from Nathan, Doll clothes from Melanie, and hangers from Matthew to spoil this child!

 On a separate day that week we went to a very big indoor playplace and Evelyn got to enjoy running around and jumping to her heart's content!

 The pit of squishy cubes was not easy to climb out of, especially with both your socks still on!

 (there was a very stinky gross stash of them lost in the bottom, apparently)

 There was a climbing wall too, kinds fun to try...but scary!!

 There were several levels of difficulty, but we stuck to the basic one. Just to see what it was like!

 The bowling alley was a pain. Half the alley wasn't working at all, and the ones that did had gimpy setups that you couldn't change. But we rolled a few balls anyways (gotta get our entrance fees worth of items tried! ;) )

 The laser tag area was fun to play grounders on (but the tag equipment...that was a joke!)

 We had lotsa fun zipping around!

 Evelyn was too small for the harnessed climbing wall (and wouldn't want a stranger roping her up anyways) so she enjoyed the mini one in peace.

 She's a monkey all right!

Everyone was happy when Evelyn got an influx of Lego people. She loves to hoard all the people, and does more play and less building...her siblings don't feel it's fair for her to keep all the minifigures! (finally, a gift that made everyone happy :p )

We are thankful for Evelyn. She might be taken to be a quiet reserved person, but don't be mistaken! She is also full of spunk, energy, ideas, fun and NOISE.