When February Feels Like Spring

A year ago, our world looked like this:  snow and icicles, gorgeous but cold.  This year, we've had some unusually mild days here in February; and although I absolutely loved last winter's abundance of snow, I'm not complaining about yesterday's 72 degree weather.  :)  

On Wednesday of this week, Jeff had taken the boys to the dollar store because David had saved up some money that was burning a hole in his pocket.  While there, Jeff saw two kites for a dollar, so he got them, knowing that even if a kite ended up in a tree or suffered a devastating crash landing, it wouldn't be such a great loss.  :)  When he got home, out tromped Jeff, Josiah, David, and Tobin, who were soon joined by two of the neighbor girls, to the front lawn to try their hand at kite-flying.  They achieved marginal success, and it was enough to give Tobin his first chance to go fly a kite.  (I can hear the song from Mary Poppins now...)

I love this picture: the sun on his face, the way he looks so big and grown-up, his look of happy concentration.

 What am I saying?  I love this boy!  He's the element that makes the picture look good!

 Can you see the kite up in the sky?

 Because of Jeff's frequent instructions to Tobin to "back up! back up!", no kites became entangled in trees.

 Old Glory returned safely to earth...

...to fly again another day.  Maybe when, again, February feels like spring.