Nice Weekend

What a great weather weekend.  It's been a while since we've had one of those.  We pretty much stuck to home on Saturday since Johnny wasn't feeling too good.  He woke up with a fever of 99.5 and a runny nose.  The fever didn't get much worse and the fever reducer kept bringing it back down.  Sunday he was fine.  Holiday I were able to do some serious weeding on Saturday while Johnny and Daddy were napping.  There's another big patch in the front to do and I would have loved to kick that out yesterday but the soreness had already kicked in, although the total loss of grip strength probably had more to do with it.  Today is 'second-day soreness'.  Maybe I can get to it on some weeknight this week.  It certainly looks better when it's all weeded out.  Yesterday we did our usual Sunday errands and David mowed the lawn again (crazy happy grass).  David and Holiday washed the car with the new spiffy pressure washer.  Holiday came in when she decided it was 'too wet.'  Our neighbor rototilled our way back part of our back yard for us.  The part that used to be the fenced in, wild blackberry infested, yard waste heap that David has since disposed of.  Right behind that is green belt so some lame-o neighbors have used that to dump car batteries and other stuff.  So I decided to plant pumpkins there since we won't be eating those and it gives it plenty of room to sprawl.  A lot of seedlings are really taking off, I'll probably be able to transplant most of it late this month or early May.  Except for the peppers, maybe it was too early so I'll get it another shot.  I know our rhubarb plant really took off last week so it probably won't be long to harvest that.  David bought Johnny a coloring book since he's been all about coloring lately and he just loves it.  I would recommend coloring books for Johnny if anyone is looking for birthday present ideas.  He goes through them quickly and destructively and he LOVES it.  Also he's been insisting at sitting at the table like big people.  That's been a little rough since he's not quite stable yet.  Even Holly falls out of her seat once in a while.  Makes us nervous but you don't want to say 'no' all the time, especially when they are learning a new skill.  Both the kids like painting projects lately.  Johnny got so covered that he went straight to the bath tub afterwards.