PB can become obsessive. Lately it has been egg hunts and geography. We did so many egg hunt in the week before Easter…upwards of 10 a day. We put away the eggs on Easter with a plea for no more egg hunts.

PB loves geography. Joe was trying to convince him that an atlas did not count as a story for bedtime. He choose a road atlas for a prize at the library. I was looking at an unlabeled map of the United States and was asking PB the names of the states, because he knows them better than I do. One of his favorite activities is asking Siri the population of various countries or states. It is a great if not strange interest for him. Still, I could care less to know that Utah’s population is probably higher than Kansas now, but not at the 2010 census. I do know a weird number such odd facts because PB wants to know.

I’m just glad C is a bit more well rounded. He generally likes everything, although the sandbox is heaven for him.

It is spring so everything is growing outside. The kids are growing a ton too. PB surprises me sometimes because he is so tall (just under four feet), and he keeps getting taller. He’s pretty smart too–he can read and count to 100. C is funny because he has a long torso and short little legs. It is hard to get clothes that fit right.

This is mom admiring the flowers with C. I was happy this shrub turned out to be a forsythia, just because it meant I guessed right.

The boys went to the Zoo in Logan without me. It was nice.

Joe took this awesome picture.

Jumping in puddles in the rain. We like to get our feet wet after a good rainstorm.

Hammocks are the best.

The kids adore dancing downstairs. The black light makes it even more fun. And PB’s new shirt glowing bright green with a black light was an added bonus.

I love this kid. He just keeps getting cuter the older he gets. And now he’s two!

We enjoyed a visit to the train museum/mode train festival in Ogden too. Mr. C loved it. He managed to derail a train too, after falling down on top of it.

My appearance has been something I have been thinking about for a while. I stumbled across this website (which I explored but did not purchase anything). I had Curly Girl suggested to me and subsequently went out and bought and read it. I looked at two other books on clothes, and spent a lot of time pondering what I wore and how I looked.

Part of me was enthralled that I could actually study how to look good. I was a nerd in high school, and I was never quite comfortable with how I looked. To re-study fashion/style was a lot of fun, thinking about how I could actually look great if I wanted to.

But after a few weeks of thinking about it, I realized that I liked how I look. While studying style, I started to want to fix something that just wasn’t broken. I like my clothes, my hair, my make-up and ultimately had no desire to change them all.

I’m not even close to fashionable. But I also do not go around in my pajamas. I strike a nice medium: I do go around in clothes that I don’t mind dirt and spit on (as a homemaker and avid gardener, I get a lot of both). But I still feel cute and not frumpy in what I wear.

I will never fit in with my looks. Being a gawky 6’1″, with short curly hair ensures that. But I’m learning it is better to be true to myself and what I like than trying please other people.