Crow Hassan with Papa and Mamoo

We went for a hike today.  It was really fun.  The dogs got to run and we all got a little exercise.

Afternoon walk

We went out for another walk today.  We are all loving that it's finally warming up a bit.  This has been a long winter.

Right now Esme says "hot" all the time, even when it's not.  This is her touching the snow and saying "hot".  We'll keep working on that.

And here is one of my favorite pictures ever of Esme.

Love it!

Plymouth Fieldhouse

Today we had another play date with Emily and Ty.  Ty wasn't much company - he could hardly keep his eyes open.  Actually he slept the whole time.  :)  But Esme and Emily had fun, although not always together.  It's funny to watch these two learn how to play together.  They really have no idea how to do it, they both just sort of do their own thing.  Sometimes they acknowledged each other, but for the most part - not.  It's cute, and I'm looking forward to watching them become friends.

Esme wanted to go down this slide, but she was a little intimidated.  It was big and there were a lot of bigger kids on it most of the time.  She did manage to get up on the bottom part of it for a few minutes and hop up and down, but that was it.  At one point, I was going to go down with her, but then about 10 kids came sort of took it over and she got scared.  We'll have to try another time.

One thing that both Emily and Esme liked was hopping on the mats.  They had a great time, although I'm still not sure that they really paid much attention to each other. :)

Three Words...

 FLOCK

 OF

SEAGULLS!

Spring???

Is spring really here?  Maybe, but probably not.  However, there was actually sun melting some of the snow on the deck. That's gotta mean something.

Esme is happy that it's warm enough to go for walks.  She's also very excited to see grass again.

It took a lot of persuading to get her to leave this little spot of grass.  Hopefully we get to see more of it soon!

Accessories

Esme loves to take her babies for walks.  She will put them in the stroller and walk them all over the house.  Today she grabbed her purse and was ready to go.  We tried to shorten the strap so it would fit her better, but that made her really mad.  Evidently she likes dragging it around behind her.

We'll have her keep practicing her parade wave for the catwalk someday.

Sending smiles

Esme was helping me send some smiles today.

Our friend Karen is a little under the weather and so we are on a card sending mission.  It's so rare to get good old fashioned mail these days and we thought it would be nice to send her lots and lots of cards.

Here is the artist herself drawing beautiful pictures for Karen.  Our plan is to send cards as often as we can to make her smile!