Baby clothes and approaching spring time

This weekend David got the car caught up on maintenance and picked up a can of paint for the nursery.  So we'll be gearing for that soon.  Keri came by and gave us a bunch of her overflow of little boy linens and clothes.  There's a lot of boys in their extended family so they get a ton of hand-me-downs, whereas in ours, there's a lot of girls.  Sounds like there will be more for us later.  While I was looking through the things Keri brought, it was funny to realize how small infant clothes were.  It made it a lot more real for us since we haven't gotten a thing for the baby yet, we'll wait till after the baby shower to fill in with what we need.  But, yes, he's going to be little and Holly will seem suddenly huge.  Holly had a pretty good weekend too.  She decided she didn't want to be carried around so much when we went to the mall so she did a lot of walking (running) on her own.  That's actually much easier on us.  Same thing happened at the grocery store only it was getting a little out of hand and halfway through shopping she went for a shoulder ride on daddy instead, but that's still easier than carrying her.  She remembered she liked helping us put things in the cart.  She's also eating much better now which is a relief for us.  We all went outside yesterday to do some yard work and filled up the green bin with a bunch of prunings.  Our vinca just started blooming last week and we've been seeing some signs of spring.  Like all those bulbs we planted in the fall are sprouting so hopefully we'll have tulips and daffodils this year.  The parsley, chives, rhubarb, irises and peony are on their way back in.  The primroses are blooming but only the purple ones.  Our candytuft is blooming too, the pansies have been blooming all winter long.  The lawn is starting to grow again, probably with all this rain we've been having.