Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Spring in Georgia

The view from our dining room (playroom) window is pretty good this time of year:




 Gavin's sandbox, made from a plastic storage bin and 1 bag of sand. He's been playing with it a couple months and it's about time to add another bag of sand as some has made its way into the grass. It's light enough to be moved into the sun or shade depending on the weather, and has a lid to keep the sand clean:

 One of my main reservations about buying this house was the view from the kitchen. Beyond our back yard we can see the top half of our neighbor's back porch and kitchen windows, which means they can see us too. I don't like it. So yesterday we bought 6 murray cypress trees to place along the back fence. They will grow tall and wide and block the view of our neighbor's house. They're supposed to grow 2-3 feet per year. A man from the nursery delivered them late yesterday afternoon and Gavin was happy to help me transport them to the back fence:


 He pulled 1 tree the whole way by himself, then helped by pushing the wagon while I pulled the other trees. The backyard looks so much better even before the trees are planted (the apple tree will have to be moved):







 Rash on my arm from touching the cypress trees, apparantly I'm allergic to all sorts of GA foliage:
 Our peach tree survived the winter:
 Gavin burying the worms he found next to the flowers he and I planted last week:


The view from our kitchen window is already better:

Friday, February 24, 2012

cookie thief

I found this picture on my camera. It was taken a few days after Gavin's birthday, showing the leftover cookies from his party. It would appear somehow a little mouse had been getting into the cookies:

Dauset Trails

Yesterday Gavin and I visited Dauset Trails with our friends Brayden and his mom Angela. We saw a bunch of animals, got lots of exercise, and enjoyed the company of our friends:




 the snakes held their attention the longest:




 Stopped by the goodwill bookstore on the way home:

Monday, February 20, 2012

Beach!

After a seafood lunch we headed out to Ft De Soto Park:








 Gavin immediately started digging. He was so busy it took him a long time to notice how this beach differed from meemaw's beach:
 Gavin didn't notice the shells at first, but I was in awe:

 A large band of shells ran down the entire beach:



 Once Gavin noticed the shells he had fun finding these large ones:

 The sand here was compacted and firm. So much so that a couple kids were bike riding on the beach:










 The water was cold, but Gavin didn't mind:






 the sand looked a little dirty in places but upon closer inspection it was tiny broken up shells that change the sand color:

 cookies in bed before we left Sunday morning: