basking in the sunshine

Well, I haven't posted much these past few days because we have been OUTSIDE!!! Yay for wonderful weather! The girls and I have been basking in the sunshine like cold-blooded animals trying to warm up. Which, considering how chilly it was INSIDE our house last week, I think it is entirely possible that our blood temperature dropped a few degrees. Even when we are inside we migrate towards the side of the apartment where the sunshine is beaming in through the windows.

Today the sky was a perfect cloudless blue and whatever it is that makes airplanes leave long white streams of clouds behind them was in action (does that have something to do with moisture in the air??). We live kind of close to the airport, but airplanes are typically way too high to see by the time they pass over our house. Unless the sky is cloudless and the long white streams of clouds thing is in effect. Like today. When we watched airplane after airplane leave its beautiful trail across the huge blue sky. It was awesome.

We are in a great little "mini-season" here. It's a very quiet time of year for Matt (he's joined us for lunch this week!) and I am thankful for the change of pace. The girls play together so well - and Julianna is on a three-week long break from preschool (because of the lunar new year) so they get even more time to laugh and sing and pretend together. Lydia typically wakes first in the afternoons and she literally stands at the door to my bedroom hollering, "Nana Nana Hey Nana" waiting for Julianna (sleeping on my bed) to wake up. This isn't my favorite habit of Lydia's, and I usually try to distract her from waking her sleeping sister, but I do love that she wants her sister to wake up and play!