First Sprinkler Day of the Year

Sammy's silly freeze poseJohnny's silly freeze pose
Sammy "snipping" a flower ...
I told him to "sniff" the flower but he misheard me. LOL!

"I'm Two!"

Today was suddenly and surprisingly hot. We invited the newest student in Johnny's class to our house for a play date after school and we all had a great time. The thing that is unique about Johnny's new friend Milagros is that she doesn't speak English. Her family moved here from Argentina a month ago and she speaks (Castilian?) Spanish. This, of course, didn't discourage Johnny in the slightest from becoming her new best friend. I think it is really sweet, and very typical of his character, to reach out to the new kid in class and make her feel welcome. I am really enjoying becoming friends with her mom too, and get to practice my Spanish a little, although her mom is quite fluent in English.

After their play date, Johnny and Sammy played with the hose until they were cold and hungry (it was well past dinnertime when they stopped playing). They came up with a silly game kind of like freeze tag where they'd do a silly dance while being sprayed by each other with the water, and would freeze into silly poses when the water stopped. It was pretty cute. Hopefully we have nice weather this next week for Spring Break so they can get some good playing in while Johnny's out of school.