steppin' out

even though it's still winter, it's been a little warmer the last couple weeks and the sun has even come out a few days and we've been taking advantage of it. 

 

we got the kids a kite for christmas and madeleine has been begging to fly it ever since. randy tried to do it with them once right after christmas, but it wasn't windy enough. now, pretty much every day, madeleine looks out the window and says, "i think the trees are moving! can we fly the kite?"

usually, it is not nearly windy enough, and even when it has been, it is rainy, or jonathan is awake and randy is teaching, or the kids have been sick - it just hasn't worked out yet. it was kind of sad, last sunday, madeleine looked longingly out the window and said, "it isn't windy, it's raining, daddy is at church, we are sick, jonathan is awake, AND it's sunday! we really can't fly the kite today."

but, yesterday, randy had a light day of teaching and it was actually windy outside (not terribly windy, but enough), so he took the girls out to try out their new kite. the girls loved it and ran around the neighborhood singing, "let's go fly a kite!" from mary poppins at the top of their lungs. jonathan and i watched from the deck.