Loving my flowers; fun day with Hunter!

There are so many beautiful things blooming!!  And a lot of them are purple!  I think we have a late variety of lilacs and they are extremely fragrant.  I remember one year Dick brought some into the house and I couldn't stand it.  But they smell amazing outside!  And when I sit here at the desk with the window open, the fragrance wafts in with the breezes. 

And how about those irises???  My friend Cheryl has been showing pictures of the inside of the flower, and I had no idea the intricate design they had!  So of course I had to take a picture too!

This is one of the hanging plants we got on Saturday.  I just love it!

Tuesday was an exciting day!!!  Hunter's first time staying with me INSIDE my house since the beginning of March 2020!!  Lori has been busy writing a grant for her department, and it was due by midnight on Tuesday, so that seemed like a good day for him to come here.  We adults are all fully vaccinated now, and we're so HAPPY to be able to be together freely again!  

They did not tell Hunter where he was going with Daddy!  They've been here over the last year, but always outside.  So he was surprised when Anthony told him it was okay for him to come into my house!

How fun as he looked for all the toys he remembered, first of all the toy instruments!  When he asked where Grandpa was and I told him he's at work, I wondered if he wants to tell Grandpa that he's at our house.  Here's the cutest 3-second video I sent to Dick!

I knew that Anthony and Lori have been saying that he loves math facts, but I found out how much he loves them!  Almost constantly while he played with toys he was talking about numbers, adding marbles together, talking about addition and multiplication facts.  I've never heard anything like it.  And he hasn't even been to kindergarten yet - just turned five in March!  I have no idea what they will do with him in kindergarten! Lots of time on an iPad during a pandemic hasn't been all bad!!

Here are some pictures I took of him throughout the day.  We went down to the little playground behind our house for a while, but mostly he played with almost every toy we have.  He was still here for dinner after Grandpa came home from work.  He was getting really silly by that time!  That bottom right picture was taken when he and Grandpa were doing funny videos in slow-mo and time-lapse.  

When I was ready to take him home after dinner and we went out to my van where Dick had installed his seat, Hunter said, "Am I going home in your van?"  I told him he was.  He said, "Wait!  May I have a fruit roll-up?"  He remembered that every day when I would pick him up from pre-school I would always give him a fruit roll-up!

On Wednesday evening I got a text message from him wondering when he can come to my house again.  I  told him that his mommy and I would need to talk about that!

On Wednesday we finally got RAIN!!  We need it so badly! We even got a rainbow!

I got some fun pictures this week when Destiny and I FaceTimed.  I'm planning to go see them in person tomorrow!  I'm so excited!

And what's that hanging from his mouth?  Some of these scrumptious-looking strawberry-topped pancakes Destiny was making on Tuesday morning!  She just loves to cook.

It's GORGEOUS OUTSIDE this morning!!  I noticed that we have buds on a couple of our rose bushes!  

It looks like we will have cool and rainy the next three days.  Not exactly what we would have ordered for Memorial Day weekend after all this heat we've already had!  It seems like the temperature extremes are just crazy this spring!  Our Monday says 68 and sunny.  That's okay, I guess.   Have a great weekend!