Beautiful Moments (A Photo Post)

It’s been so busy lately, I hadn’t realized how many beautiful moments we were enjoying. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not as if they passed by unmarked. If I knew to get the camera, I was aware of them. I just didn’t realize how many had come crowded together.

This was the sixty-degree day in which the last snow melted, and we waited outside for Julianna to get home from school.

This was the seventy degree day that followed, when Nicholas began learning to ride a bicycle…

…and Alex flew a kite around the remains of the snow….

…while Michael….well, you know Michael.

That weekend was our pre-Down Syndrome Day party. I have so many great pictures of that event, such joy, such beautiful children, but they’re not my kids, so you’ll have to take my word for it and just enjoy pictures of mine:

It took Julianna quite a while to warm up to the idea of face paint, but once she did, there was no stopping her:

Nicholas jumped on the bandwagon, too:

Meanwhile, the boys were having swords, bucklers, crowns and bow & arrows made for them in great quantity by the balloon man:

And Alex got to be assistant to the magician/comedian:

Which was very funny, as witness:

Later there was dancing, which was super cute, but again–too many other kids involved for me to share pictures. During the dancing, Michael did what Michael does. Lately, that means steal shoes and walk with them on his hands:

Fortunately, they were Julianna’s. Because Julianna had stolen someone else’s shoes to dance in:

After all this, we entered the Crazy Week and I didn’t even look at the pictures until we had a whole new bunch of beauty in the form of a baby cousin come to visit:

And grandparents, too!

More tomorrow, when I wrap up Nicholas’ 4th birthday celebration. At the moment, it’s time to run interference between bickering children. Whose idea was Spring Break, anyway?