Spring Has Sprung

Spring has sprung! Or at least it keeps pretending it has. We have this magnolia tree in the front of our yard that we wait all year for its short moment of glory, which lasts about one week. The last two years the weather has played games with its mind and it will bloom or start to bloom when all of the sudden the next day we get snow and freezing weather. The flowers turn brown and fall off before we can even enjoy its beauty.

We had a delightful Easter which consisted of two seperate easter egg hunts with the Harding cousins and the Conrad cousins. It was all bedlam and way too many easter eggs with candy. I keep telling myself that I'm going to scale back the next year but I always forget and this is the result.

Sage is growing up so fast. So far she is bucking the trend for these Conrad kids in everything. She refuses to take a bottle or pacifier and having just received her first tooth, she really isn't at all like our others. All of our other kids broke their I teeth first and looked like vampires for the longest time. Not Sage. She actually looks quite normal with her bottom front tooth and it looks like its companion is not too far behind.

Her favorite thing is to shake her head "no" for everything and she loves to clap her hands and give open mouth slobbery kisses. She is so happy and full of love and is the joy of the family (except at 3 a.m. for mommy).

Sometimes as parents you wonder if anything you are teaching your kids ever sinks in. Chad and I on seperate occasions took the time to ask Megan (2) and Tessa (4) some basic questions of our beliefs. We found out that with some of them we still have a long way to go. What we have found out is that the teaching never ends and some of them need more reminders than others. I hope I am up to the challenge.