Daley Ponderings

It got up to 67 F outside this afternoon.  We had a picnic lunch and then spent a long time outside enjoying the sunshine (kids absorbing lots of vitamin D) and playing with rocks.  Jonathan cleaned and filled the hummingbird feeder.  I filled the regular bird feeder.  I put away shovels and cleaned up the yard a bit (rocks from the paths had gotten shoveled into the grass with the snow).  Hooray for spring!  I even opened up the windows to let some fresh air in.  It only lasted for about an hour because the outside temperature started dropping, but it was very nice.

Our backyard is a swamp, with at least an inch, maybe two of water in many places.  Amazingly, the basement is dry even with all this thawing.  I cleared out the snow from my new raspberry transplants (transplanted in late summer) since it seemed like the snow in the back-back yard is not going to melt as fast because it is more sheltered.

Jonathan came inside singing a new song, which he proceeded to write down.  He declined to sing it for the camera, but he did want me to type up the words.

I Can't Stop Seein' The Beauty of Nature by Jonathan David Daley

I can't stop seein' the beauty of nature.
I can't stop seein' beautiful things.
I just can't stop seein' beautiful things.  (x3)

I can't stop seein' beautiful things. (x2)

In other news:

3/8 - Faith says thank you when you give her something.  It sounds like "ay-oo"

3/9 - Noah is correcting his own speech more and more.  For example, he used to say "byoon" for balloon.  On Tuesday he started saying "ba-byoon". 

3/10 - After several attempts and much perseverance and refusal of help, Faith put on her own pants.