Queen Pepper

Pepper has been wearing around her "super fancy" dress and shoes.  She is fairly good about taking them off before our walks in the forest because she understands that we don't want them to get dirty.  But she doesn't understand why you would need to take them off before you go to the grocery store or the library... those are clean places.  Thus she wears them. Here she is on her green throne.

Ramp turned wild

I made a ramp to drive cars down.  But apparently the kids thought it looked more like a slide. Or maybe something to jump over.

Gramy's

 Pepper has had a year long obsession with "curly ferns".

It has not been our typical Seattle spring weather this year.  It has been super warm, with little rain.  We went on a hike and the kids did really well.  They hiked for over an hour without a complaint of someone being tired.  Pepper fell and scraped her knee at one point.  She thought she needed carried for a couple minutes due to her injury (didn't even break skin) but then she braved up and kept walking.  Afterwards we went to Gramy's where she made us root-beer floats. And the kids LOVED watering her plants.  They made her refill their watering cans over and over and over.

park day

Today was a park day.  We practiced letters in the sand, fed the ducks, waded in the water, threw rocks and then played on the playground.  The kids were super cheerful today.  I was super cheerful today!