I'm complaining a lot. Yikes. Spring is great. We have been playing outside and going for hikes. There are lovely new snowdrops and daffodils growing in the garden at the church. We even walked to school the other day without our coats on! We are pretty darn lucky considering the rest of Canada is up to their eyeballs in snow.
I feel like these last couple of months have also been consumed with a lot of reading. I got so many books and comics for Christmas that I still have about 3 or 4 books that I haven't read yet. I always need to wait until the kids are in bed to do any reading so that I can read without getting interrupted, and that way I don't get so focused on a book that I let them eat cereal at every meal. Another pretty good reason is so that Eli doesn't see Gorilla Grodd kill his own father and eat his brain to absorb his knowledge. Who knew comics were so delightfully disturbing? Sometimes I wake up and I'm surprised that I'm not in Gotham, Central City or Atlantis, depending on what I had been reading the night before. Too many graphic novels! This is a pretty new obsession for me and I think that anyone that knows me will know that I when I like something I don't go halfway. My mom makes my favourite brownies? Eat 80 in a single sitting. You like Harry Potter too? Come over and we can duel with my wands. I wonder what else there is to know about dinosaurs? Please hand me an entire encyclopedia. A sudden realization that superheroes are ridiculously amazing? Read all the comics! I felt like a really great mom the other day when Eli grabbed my phone and noticed the background picture. He comes up to me and says, "Mom, why is there a picture of Aquaman on your phone and not a picture of me?" Aquaman is obviously more important. My poor kids. I really do wish them luck.
My boys have been doing very well lately actually. Simon is getting so big and learning so many new words. The other night he woke up in the middle of the night and was having a very hard time getting back to sleep. Bruce and I were both sitting awake in bed and taking turns going into the boys room to lie Simon back down. At one point we both thought he had gone back to sleep because he had stopped fussing then suddenly we hear him shout, "Why?!" so dramatically we just burst out laughing. I thought if I had walked in there that moment he would have been cradling one of his stuffies as if it had just died a very tragic and untimely death. It seems he is starting to take after his brother in the theatrics department.
Generally, Eli is loving life and has been so happy with the warmer weather. He has always been a very active and energetic kid so when I can just let him run around outside and play Batman and Joker with Simon, everyone wins. He has started talking to himself a ton and I can't get enough of it. I can't understand what he is saying most of the time but I just love to hear him mumbling in the car when I'm driving or pretending to read himself a book.
I don't have a ton of good photos from the last couple of months but we did go on a hike the other day here in Langley and we got some pretty cool shots of the moss and stuff that grows on the trees here. This is a terribly long post so time to end my rambles and go eat some ice cream!
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| A very mossy tree |
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| A fairy paradise |
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| We are all looking very uncomfortable |
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| His eyes will get stuck like that |
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| Superman and Batman/Ironman fighting crime and stopping to admire their own magnificence. |
