Spring Time
Celebrating Easter is still very important to Sydney. She wants the full experience: coloring eggs, finding candy, having an Easter basket. She is determined to get the full childhood experience with the holidays. We also had a visit from Emma and Brox over their Spring Break. It was fun to be with them and get to know them better. I had to sneak a picture of Jackson out back working in the yard in the heat. I gave him a job to dig out a blue tarp that has been buried back in this corner since we moved into the house. He hates to do jobs that he finds meaningless, and this one surely qualified. Every 15 min. he would come inside and say "I can't get it out, it's too hard." And then I would turn him back around and take him back out and show him how to dig it out again. The process repeated several times until after an hour or so he finally got the tarp out of the hardened dirt. He felt proud of himself when h...