Last Spring

We had quite a busy 2015, and now that it's over we can start blogging about it. Here is a brief recap of what happened in April and May last year.

Caleb became much more mobile, but still small enough to sit on the dishwasher without breaking it. It was a very dry winter last year--lowest snowfall on record--but we did get a late snow in April. The girls relished a last chance to play in the snow after having almost none to play in all winter, and Caleb liked watching them from the window, saying "no! no!" which is how he says "snow." (It also means "more" as well as the obvious "no.") 

He also started using anything soft as a blanket and sucking his thumb like Linus from Peanuts, and he loved trying to unlock the car.

He also became interested in TV and always sits in his rocking chair to watch it.

With no snow, the grass and driveway cleared up much faster than usual once the weather started getting nice, so we played outside a lot. Caleb and Sabrina enjoyed their matching hoodies.

There is a dip on the edge of the driveway where a puddle forms, and even by the end of the summer Caleb hadn't learned not to sit down in it.

Celia's new obsession was monkey bars. She laments the fact that she can't do them in the winter because she can't hold on with her gloves on.

Sabrina took a gymnastics class. Every week there was a different theme. This week was superhero day, so here she is dressed as Michelangelo the Ninja Turtle.

She's very proud of the medal she got at the end of the class.

We started family bike rides a little earlier this year than we meant to one day when both our cars ended up in the shop at the same time. Celia still needed to make it to school, and since it was a drizzly day, we stuffed her in the bike trailer to stay clean on the way to school. The next week was bike to school day, and since it was a nice sunny day, Celia got to ride behind me.

Caleb became very shaggy around this time--he was starting to look like Doc from Back to the Future, so we gave him a trim. He looked much more sophisticated afterwards.