oh so welcome here....

After a bluh late morning with lots of fussing and fighting...I threw the big boys outside, got H down for a nap, then went outside myself to soak up some of the signs of spring around here:

::  lilacs leafing out
::  grass greening up (and lunch outside!  yay!)
::  rhubarb emerging
::  dogwood leafing out (and pussy willow in puff already)
::  prairie smoke flowers budding out
::  my big boys setting aside whatever they were bugging each other about for a few minutes of cloud watching...