Ladybug?

Reports of a flash winter storm bringing 50cm of snow to our area (after +25 weather) seem to have been greatly exaggerated (feverishly touching anything resembling wood or wood-laminate products). It seems the leader-post (our local paper) and some enterprising journalists saw reports of a winter storm in the north and somehow extrapolated to include Regina in that north. In any case, unless something strange happens in the next couple days, it continues to be Sprummer here.

Sophia is fascinated with Ladybugs. It was one of her first three-syllable words, and for a while it was stuck at "lady" (lady-lady-lady- ...ladyblurg?) but now she has it along with several phrases (to appear in a subsequent blog entry). Since yesterday was such a nice day, Daddy decided to start to rake up the dead grass from the winter (which is when I heard from neighbours about the supposed winter storm). Sophia helped, and after a while Mommy and Haley joined us. We played in the brown grass and marveled at the newly appearing buds, and Sophia saw many ladybugs. For a while, "ladybug?" was the only thing coming out of her mouth, and probably 30 times a minute.

With the sun just setting and her interest captured, it was the perfect photo-opportunity. We are really happy with how these turned out and we think they will be classics in photo albums to come.

Outside on a beautiful day. note the fat lip from a previous faceplant. scary but no permanent damage

Ladybug?

ladybug!

ladybug...

Ladybug.