Thursday, February 20, 2014

Croci Signal Times of Change

Flowers in our yard took advantage of a break in the cold and peeped out of the ground.   I noticed the first crocuses (yellow and white) during the post-baptism sundae party on Sunday, February 16 and the first daffodil this morning (February 20) is blooming on the south side of the pecan tree.

In other news, the boys may not be related to my family, because they enjoy dressing up (Dianthus has asked to wear his tie to preschool on several occasions) and Aster did not flinch when they took eleven (11!) vials of blood at the doctor recently.*
Boys survived dunking** and weekend with all grandparents in the house.

*He's fine.  We had a check-up with the pediatric neurologist who confirmed that the MRI shows evidence of a stroke in utero and the follow up is to test for clotting disorders that may pre-dispose him to strokes in the future.

**Okay, "sprinkling", not "dunking", but I like the sound of dunking better.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wonderful baptism and tasty sundae party. Very nice time. Good lookin' bunch of hillbillies there.

Anonymous said...

I agree. A fine looking group. I do miss your excellent parties!
Miss Tilda-bean is quite pleased with her new puppy. She isn't old enough yet to understand the fabulousness of holiday jammies, but perhaps she will when she's old enough to fit in them. Thank you so much!
Molly

Sparkling Squirrel said...

For the record, the first little iris reticulata were blooming on Friday, Feb. 28. I picked two on Saturday before the ice came.