Walks

With the weather getting warmer, we have tried to take full advantage and get out for more family walks. Whether it's in our neighborhood, a park, or trail - we have made the most of really trying to get the kids excited about getting out.

Lily is given a ziplock baggie to put whatever treasures she wants in her bag during our walk.

She finds flowers, dandelion globes, seeds, sticks, feathers, leaves, rocks, and grass. 

One of our new favorite places to walk is near our home, about a mile away, is a large forest with a trail. It snakes back and forth and winds its way around a lake, an old abandoned car, and lots of fallen trees. 

Lily gets particularly excited when we pass by the lakes. It doesn't matter what she gets to throw into the lake, she's happy as long as it makes a splash.

And to make it off the path, where it's not stroller friendly, we have taken the backpack a few times. Marco seems to like it, but I'm not sure if Daddy does.

And on the way home from our walk in the forest, as we pass the cow pasture, it's full of bright cheery, lovely little yellow buttercup flowers. And Lily is obsessed with them. When they are in bloom that is the only thing she wants to fill her bag with. And, thankfully, the cows have been cooperative so that she feels brave enough to pick as many as she wants while we patiently wait for her to collect her golden treasure.