Spring is here! And I am so happy it is.  I’ve always thought that I loved all the seasons equally, but this year I’m loving Spring a lot more than Winter.  We have been outside taking walks and the kids have been asking to go outside and play.  The only down side is that their school has been holding their annual cookie sale and the kids have wanted to see if our neighbors would buy cookies.  With good weather, I had no excuse to not walk around the neighborhood with them.  I hate asking neighbors to pay for things they probably don’t want, but may feel obligated to buy.  At the same time, I think it is really good for the kids to learn to talk to people and be brave.

With the weather getting nice, Pierce has discovered how much he loves being outside and a monster has been born.  He is already always telling me “ierce, side,” which means “Pierce, outside.”  I love being outside and it is fun to watch him, but I still have too much I have to do inside and I don’t want to have to fight a two year old when we can’t go outside.

Chance turns 8 tomorrow.  He has been so excited for his birthday!  Sadly, for me, 8 year old boys are very hard to get presents for!  He is too young for a lot of gifts, but too old for “baby” gifts!  Chance isn’t picky, he will take what he gets and be very grateful, but he is very... particular about his things.  I usually decorate a cake for the kids on their birthday.  I’m not very good, but they like picking out what kind of cake they want and I enjoy trying to make it into something.  The school also lets parents send in cupcakes for their child’s birthday, so Chance reminded me, yesterday, that he wanted cupcakes for his class on Monday.

Cupcakes don’t take long, and my older girls have really gotten into baking, so I hardly have to do anything to get them ready, but finding out HOW Chance wanted his cupcakes decorated was impossible!  He wanted superhero cupcakes, which were all far beyond my meager decorating abilities, and all the cute ideas I found online were too “baby” for him.  So on Monday Chance is taking 24 vanilla cupcakes with vanilla frosting (boring, but that is what he wanted) decorated with a piece of cheese.  Chance really love reading the Dairy of a Wimpey Kid books and in the first one there was a piece of stinky cheese outside of the school that would give kids the “cheese touch.”  The cheese on the cupcakes looks real, it just looks out of place on a cupcake.  Chance is happy.  He’s also really excited about his baptism.