Outside, inside

On Sunday we took the kids through the forest near our home to a huge honeysuckle bush, where they all enjoyed the nectar. Witness the first tastes:

Honeysuckle! It's deliciousness defies description, as do the forests here. The boys love to walk through them,

collecting sticks/butterflies/rocks/scales/flowers/bugs/rashes along the way.

The county parks are all surrounded by trees,

not to mention some handy equipment! 

(This is all four boys doubled up on the swings. The big boys wanted to be together--it took a good five minutes to wriggle them out!)

When we can't be out for long,

we spend time indoors playing (Adam crawls like a little tiger cub!),

cooking (The kid made himself Cream of Wheat on the stovetop independently--see him beam with pride!), 

 

and pretending (This is the "library" we set up in the living room on a rainy day--such fun!).

And sometimes we are able to take the outdoors, indoors. (Can you believe that the caterpillars we captured actually formed cocoons right in our house? Intellectually I knew that it should happen, but I somehow doubted that it really would.)

For all these little wonders, I am daily grateful. What joy.