First day of Spring

This last Sunday was the first day of Spring. We have had some beautiful days lately so had high hopes of spending the day outdoors with some fun spring activities but, mother nature had a different plan all together. The inside of the house looks like spring but it was cold, rainy & gloomy outside.

We headed to the craft store instead of playing outside and I let the kids have free pick of the entire store. Any project they wanted...within $5. They both spent a long time carefully choosing their own projects. One large thing? A few small things? Paint? Markers? Something to play with? Or something to decorate with? I enjoyed watching them go back and forth across the store to compare their different options, only to find something new and start the comparison all over again. Jackson ended up with a few wooden animals; snake, scorpion, crocodile and  package of different colored paints. While Ashleigh chose a couple resin figures, markers, and package of googlie eyes.

After the craft store, we walked next door to the pet store. We are planning on getting a dog soon (which they have wanted for years) but the household battle remains: big dog or small dog. They had fun looking at all the animals (the snakes were Jackson's favorite and Ashleigh loved the puppies) and cool accessories (some of the pet outfits are just as fancy as people clothing now, it's crazy). The kids saw the cones to go around a pets neck and decided to try it out on Ashleigh. They crack me up.

After being out in the rain and gloom, hot chocolate was in order by the time we got home. I whipped up a few mugs of cocoa while the kids covered the table with some newspaper. They spent a couple hours just talking, laughing, painting and gluing. Definitely not the afternoon I had planned, but still fun. Hopefully it will start to feel like spring again soon!