Another Beautiful Spring Day!

Today the girls decorated some flower pots to put their flowers in!

We also spent most of the day outside!

The girls had fun practicing their gymnastics. Olivia said she doesn't want to grow up! She said she's going to wait until she turns 8 and then stop. I asked her why and she said "because I want to keep doing cartwheels." Mark and I can't do them, so she must have thought all "old" people can't do them! Ha ha. I told her that a lot of "old" people can do them, like her gymnastics teachers.

Later, the girls brought some books outside and did some reading. Georgia read a book on mammals and Olivia read a book on shells and mollusks.

And they did some cloud watching!

Livy searched for a four leaf clover in a patch of clovers. She didn't find one and was mad! I told her I've never found one either. She also looked at the different weeds around the lawn and kept asking "Is this Colonel Mustard?" She meant garlic mustard, but she keeps calling it the character from Clue!

The girls collected some dandelions.

Later in the evening, when all four of us were outside reading, Mark and Georgia went inside for something. Olivia said, "Hey, we were four people outside, now two went inside. Four minus two equals two. When they come back two plus two equals four." What a girl!

We took a quick walk at Shawnee Prairie Preserve to check on the wildflowers. It's amazing how much new growth there is after just two days!

We found more Mayapples opening their leaves. We also saw some Cut-leaved Toothwort, Downy Yellow Violets, the Common Blue Violet, and some others I'm not sure on.