Easter, Providence Childrens Museum etc.

ll it was lexie first Easter where she was visited by the Easter Bunny.  To say the least I do believe that she enjoyed it.  Certainly the chocolate that he left only lasted two days (and only 2 days because I took half of it off her - she would have happily eaten it all in one day).

Apart from that, we've been having some good weather lately and that means getting out and about a little bit more.  We've been to Capron Park zoo twice and the  little zoo at Plainville too.  Lexie definitely loves feeding the animals.  Hes a quick video of her.

Feeding the Goats

We also took a trip down to Providence to check out the Providence Children Museum.  Lexie had a blast here - its aimed directly at kids her age.  heres a quick video.

Providence Childrens Museum

Other than taking the kids out on day trips I've been getting back into the crocheting.  I made myself a hat for summer, but despite following all instructions it turned out way too small.  In fact it fits Josh perfectly so it's been bequeathed to him and I'm starting another for myself  But heres a piccie of the little cutie in his new hat.

Spring has sprung...and then got drowned

dy here. Jen is watching American Idol and so I thought I'd sneak away to type a little something.

Well it's nearly April and Spring officially started a week or two ago. I always wondered why some weather person used to tell me every year that Spring starts on the first of March.  Don't they know Spring is a season and that has to do with the planet we live on tilting on it's axis as it revolves around the sun!  Not a date on a piece of paper! Sheesh!

Ok -I promise to leave the poor defenseless weather people alone!  You have a lot to answer for Alan Wilkie! And don't you snigger Mike Bailey!

So what has been happening. Well I think the operative word is rain. Pure, simple and oh so wet. We've had the "pleasure" of 12.84 inchesso far, for the month of March. Our wettest March on record!
But not the wettest month - that honor fell to August 1995 with 17.05 inches.
In the last two days we've had 4-6 inches in our town. The ground is so wet that it physically can't absorb any more water. We've been lucky though - no flooding of the house.
There has been widespread flooding of areas like Framingham, Quincy, Fall River and Cranston in RI. I even ran into some flooding this morning on the way to work. I watched a truck hydroplane across a lane and nearly saw a little Toyota stall - the water was halfway up the car's radiator grill! Scary!

(Jen's additions in red) OK heres a piccie of the swamp in the backyard we actually had a couple of ducks come and visit us yesterday which was pretty fun for the kids. Doesn't look too impressive here but I couldn't get a better shot unfortunately.

Around the house we recently had 3 trees removed. 2 were dangerous and could have caused some real structural damage to the house if they had fallen, and the third was a nuisance tree. It was being killed by the other trees around it, so was sickly and could have become an issue later. We scored some major firewood out of it though - now all I have to do is get the wood cut up and ready for drying across Summer. Anyone want to volunteer while they are over here?

Just a quick video of the big tree in the front yard coming down.

Timber

And some more piccies and videos of the kids - Why because they're cute - what other reason do I need. Also Lexies modelling the new top that I made for her.

Giggles

And we can't forget the birthday boy.