Bluebonnets, Berries, and Bunnies

Our weather is quickly heating up, but before spring gives way to full fledged Texas summer I wanted to share some highlights from the past month. We had a good season for bluebonnets this year, so once again I participated in the grand Texas tradition of dressing my child up in nice clothes and then dropping him off on the side of the road somewhere so I could frantically chase him around with my camera. As to be expected with any two year old, I got about a hundred shots of the back of his head as he was running away from me, like so:

Fortunately, I  managed to get a couple decent ones where he was at least facing the camera.

A vast improvement over last year! Next year, a professional photographer may be in the cards.

We also made a little Saturday trek out to Sweet Berry Farms in Marble Falls to pick strawberries in mid-April. More berries probably wound up in his belly (or chucked out in the field somewhere - the boy will throw anything) than in his basket, but we had a great time. We picked enough to enjoy bowls of fresh strawberries with cream almost every night for a week, along with a grilled chicken and strawberry salad, strawberry shortcake, and strawberries in our cereal daily. And we have a big bag of washed and hulled strawberries hanging out in the freezer for some other strawberry treat whenever the mood strikes.

Quality control 

 Not so sure about that goat...

 Nope, still not interested...

Our little farmer

And, a few final pictures from Easter. Nicholas participated in an egg hunt at school and loved it. However, on Easter (after refusing to nap), he was exhausted and could not have been less interested in our little backyard egg hunt. (The lack of excitement and competition from other kids probably didn't help either.) We had to continually prompt him to go find the next egg, basically showing him where each one was "hidden." Some of the eggs contained a couple jelly beans and some contained stickers. He halfheartedly ate the jelly beans out of a few eggs, and then just dropped the stickers on the ground. 

Ready to hunt eggs at school!

With his buddies, Drew and Jack 

After Easter morning service

Eh, stickers

Oh well. He liked his Easter basket, and there's always next year for a more energetic egg hunt.

Happy spring!