On a 56 degree, overcast afternoon...

after Daddy has left to fly off to another set of interviews...

to make us feel better in his absence, and to enjoy this atypical January day...

Mommy lets us pull out our John Deere bikes (esp since we are wearing training pants!)...

summer grills...

and cars...

and we take off to go play in the block of wide open spaces (as fast as our feet can move us to try to beat the pregnant belly chasing after us!)...

and are redirected by our older brother when we disobey laws of not driving in the road...

 and then hauled back up the hill...

where Mommy loads us up in the stroller and makes her first stroller trip (in probably 3 months!) down the hill to the park...

where we are the only ones at the playground (Mommy begins to wonder if it's going to storm)...

and we bring towels to dry off the slides...

by sliding on them (Mommy's idea since she couldn't dry off the big one's easily!)...

 

and then can slide down freely and keep our pants... 

and jackets dry...

and play on all the bars like monkeys...

or just relax and enjoy a long denied afternoon at the park...

Thank you Jesus for giving us nice warm weather to melt away the snow so we can have fun-- especially since it's supposed to be back in the 20s tomorrow!! :)

And according to Liam, next he's going to answer Liam's prayer for leaves on the trees (something Liam prays daily)... because Mommy said once the leaves come back on the trees, our new baby brother will be born!!