Cakelets, Greenery, Pockets

It's getting to be my favorite time of year! Bunny season. :) I like a late-April Easter—the Easter decorations got to be out from the end of March and all through April! We haven't had unbroken clear skies, but I don't mind a little rain because it makes everything so green.

This picture is not of rain, though. Just Teddy at the Aquarium:

People being BYU-y.

Cakes made in my new bunny "cakelet" pan. (That's what it was called when I bought it. And I think "cakelet" is a very cute word, much cuter than "cupcake.")

We're studying plants right now for school, and for one project we made terrariums. I love them! I don't usually keep many plants around the house (just one more thing to worry about!), but we've had a lot of them around during this unit for various activities and experiments, and I must admit it is quite nice. We've had colored flowers, and little tiny seed starts, and microgreens, and air plants. It has made it feel extra Spring-y inside!

Goldie wants to do math problems all the time these days—she seems to have a knack for seeing how numbers go together, to the point that all her older siblings want to show her off as some kind of savant. They are always telling me the hard problems they have devised for her—and how she answered every one correctly.

Girls on a sunny Sunday. That's my old dress, on Marigold.

A snowy day. But the snow is soon gone, this time of year!

Seb has been drumming on everything with my old drumsticks and mallets lately (did you know I played the drums in high school and college? I did.) and for awhile it seemed like every night when I was cooking dinner I would end up yelling "Who took my POT LID?!"—before I realized that Seb had appropriated every container in the house to be part of his drum set. One day he came upstairs to show me the foot pedal he had made for his bass drum. I am used to Seb making all kinds of things, but I was completely amazed that he'd figured out how to construct this perfectly-working mechanism!

Daisy made something great too—this cutest tiny Kleenex box for her dolls!

Sometimes my kids suddenly get seized with the desire to wear animal costumes for a few days. Here we have a round elephant.

Some bears.

And a large gorilla. Ziggy was leery of it.

But speaking of Ziggy. He is particularly funny these days. He talks a lot (in strange, funny half-sentences) and wants to wear everyone else's shoes around. He also wants to go outside all the time, and if he can't (or whenever you bring him in), he runs angrily screaming through the house and throws himself down dramatically in the closet or on the stairs. He also likes to sit by the oven on a little stool, saying "Mum! Mum!" (yum) encouragingly as the food cooks.

His hair is getting really long, too. One of the kids tried to make it stay up in the "poik" he used to always have, and it poked up like a unicorn horn!

Zig loves, loves, loves his siblings!! He is always begging to be picked up—and they usually oblige.

He also thinks the front of his shirt is a pocket, so he pretty much always looks lumpy and bumpy like this when he walks around the house. Heaven forbid he wears a regular shirt and pants, because the toys go right through and he's so annoyed by it! And sometimes the sheer number of things he stores in his "pocket" are out of control. I counted something like thirty little animals that fell out of the legs of his suit one day when I was changing his diaper. Monkey!

It's a good place to store his Taggie, too—

which he calls "Gaggie" and carries around with him whenever possible. If I try to leave it in his crib, he reaches an impossibly long arm through the slats and gets it anyway!

He still has a propensity to put himself into boxes. He likes to carry a box around the house, set it down, and get in it.

Goodness, we love him!