The Great Outdoors

We had some beautiful weather this January, so we took advantage of it and played outside a lot!

 Check out Joshua crawling up the stairs of this playscape all by himself.

 He discovered recently that he loves slides!

 One Saturday, we went to a nearby nature preserve for a nature hike. Here's Paul explaining to Eli and Micah which snakes are dangerous in the woods.

 Eli, Paul, Micah

 We found some shelf fungus growing on a tree, so all the boys had to touch it. ;-)

 Then, we found these huge live oaks! Paul climbed up there immediately and the big boys wanted to join him.

 

 Mr. Blue Eyes wanted to climb up the tree, too!

 Then, I got a turn in the tree with the boys.

 I love this picture of the 5 of us! To get this picture, Paul wedged our camera into another tree and set the camera's timer. It only took a couple of tries to get a good picture of us.

Despite leaving the trail we thought we were following and walking a little more than we intended, all three boys did a great job on our nature hike. We are certainly going to have to visit this preserve again!