earth day

What a beautiful Earth Day. It is so wonderfully warm and sunny, and we all enjoyed working outside today. We fixed the kids play area, edged around some trees, graded the driveway, weeded the garden....perfect weather.  My children have a habit of ditching their shoes, and off they came today. Even Claire discarded her rubber boots after learning how to go down a slide for the first time. I gave up trying to keep them on and decided I could wash everything later. We found creepy crawlies under a board and the kids enjoyed learning their names and even held a few (without squashing them).  Here are a few pictures from the day.

my tiny helper

she's smiling :-)

grape hyacinth

yellow daffodil

red tulips

playing in the sun

Frederick holding a tiny snail

big worm

centipede

the tiny snail up close

mr. armadillo bug