The First Day of Spring!

Spring kicked off last Friday with a few snow flurries, of course.  Seems par for the course for us the last few years.  A super cold, long winter and a tease of a day or two of sunshine and slightly warmer weather then back to frigid and snow.  Figures!

The girls were in a great mood that morning and excited about the snow. :)

Lily had a fun, special day at preschool on Friday. Pajamas and Pancakes!

photo courtesy of preschool

After we picked Lily at school, we headed to Rita's Italian Ice for our annual first day of Spring treat! Rita's offers a free Italian Ice on the first day of Spring each year and we go no matter what the weather!

Andrew had SourPatch cherry, Lily had cherry, Violet had birthday cake, and I had s'mores! Violet was completely uninterested in anything else except her Italian ice.

Lily told Daddy that she wanted to make me a birthday cake, so later that evening that's just what she did.   When we were at the grocery, she picked out what kind she wanted to make and told me it needed lots of sprinkles on top too! I love how excited she was to do this and continued checking it in the oven also.  She went to bed and George went to work, so frosting had to wait until the next day.

 Frosting and decorating the cake was entertaining!  I am one lucky mama!

 Perfect cake!  {Yes, there is an Elsa/Frozen section of sprinkles, of course}

Happy 1st day of Spring!

1st Day of Spring

Mr. Rogers' birthday also happens to fall on the 1st day of Spring, so in addition to our free admission to the Children's Museum, a local Italian ice place offers free Italian ice every year to celebrate the 1st day of Spring. 

This year it was HOT. {again, hot is relative}  80 degrees in March in Pittsburgh is about 20 degrees above normal. Getting a cool treat was so welcome!

We waited until George got home from work and Andrew and Reagan got home from school and off we went.

Lily was ready!

{Yes, my old man is wearing old man socks and sandals}

The line was long, but moved quickly.



Lily just kept wanting to run.  Yep, she's at that age where if she's not being held or in a stroller she is on. the. go. Running.  Finally, we got our turn!

Hmmmm which flavor to choose?

We picked green apple for Lily, Andrew got the same, Daddy got Bubblicious and Reagan and I got pink lemonade.

We headed over to my mother-in-law's cauldron house to eat our Italian ice and let her see the kids.

There was a lot of running back and forth from Andrew to Daddy.

Andrew enjoyed the outside thoroughly.

Lily enjoyed her 1st Rita's Italian ice experience all the way down to the cup. 

Happy 1st day of Spring!