Spring??

We  made beautiful sugar cookies with the best icing recipe and sprinkles too! Boy, I always forget that sugar cookies are an all day long ordeal, but so worth it in the end. It's always amazing to see the kids personalities come out in the decorating process. 

Art projects

Well, Spring in Humboldt county brings us lots and lots of rain. With our new baby I have been pushed to my limits of finding creative ways to keep the kids happy. We painted the rain today on egg shaped watercolor paper, and then decorated the eggs with sparkles and crayons. We do lots of playdough, and the kids are getting really creative with it. They built a whole farm yesterday. 

When the sun comes out we go on nature hikes and see what has bloomed since we last were there. We listen to the roaring sounds of the river, which we can't see but we can hear it! It sounds so strong! 

We are awaiting the hatching of our first parrots of the year..it's very exciting to check on them each day.

And we poke our heads into the greenhouse. The kids get so excited to see how everything has changed each day. So far only peas, sunflowers and borage seem to have survived our planting day.

MMmmmm Spring

After wishing that it would warm up we had a beautiful weekend, filled with one teething baby who refused to sleep or be set down. It was 90 degrees! We rode our pony, we planted seeds. 30 baby chicks arrived in the mail on Saturday! I packed up our snow gear, and tucked it away in our barn. I even found time to start sewing  the cutest toile dress. When the kids are outside all day the house seems to stay cleaner! The split pea soup we had for dinner seemed wrong - we needed some watermelon! I can't wait for the days ahead!

April Showers

April rains bring ????????

Our Afternoon Hike.

My daughter and I had the best hike today! We found Horsetails, Usnea,
Wild Ginger and wild Strawberry leaves. It was such fun!

Even though it was only 27 degrees out this morning, when the sun poked through we ran for it! We are going to make teas tommorow. Then we got out my books and read all about the different herbs and what they do.

5 Min after Easter began we were done.....

easyer, originally uploaded by The Root Children.

After they had some treats we went outside and said a blessing for the arrival of spring. 

Then we planted all kinds of flowers untill it was too cold and we had to go warm up by the fire.