A Walk in the Park and Baby Shower

Walks in the park-
Recently the road in front of our house has thawed and now we can go for walks down the road with the kids. They enjoy being pushed down to the end of cliffside in the stroller and then we walk home together. Stuey likes stopping at the Bern's house and looking at the pile of bouys and fishing line. He says, "Hi Bouys" and as we walk away, "Bye Bouys." He has an affinity for fishing gear (his late grandfather Dave would be proud! And Patrick says his great grandfather was a fisherman as well!).

Patrick took Nora on what may have been her last back pack ride to the park. She is over 40 pounds now and she has legs for walking. I think she should've been walking much earlier than now, but the walks to the park have been a very special time for she and Patrick. Stuey has had very few walks to the park in the back pack during his baby and toddler years. This is largely due to the fact that Nora would get very sad (or rather, mad) to see Stuey go off in "her" backpack.

Baby Shower for Shannon
Last weekend I hosted a baby shower for my friend Shannon. She is new to town and teaches dance classes at the Little School of Dance. She is due in the beginning of May is the most adorable, enthusiastic pregnant woman ever. We did a mother blessing bead ceremony at her shower where everyone brought a bead and we strung it onto a necklace for her along with a wish for transition into mother hood and labor/birth, etc... (Patrick is probably yawning right now as he reads this...or perhaps he has skipped this paragraph all together). The cake was made by Paul Hicks-he is a gentleman in the Coast Guard with incredible cake-art talent! It was yummy, too!

Zoya