notice anything amiss?

If you saw my last post and the picture of our backyard in Colorado you know that trees are not common. The only trees we had were the tiny sticks someone would try to plant and then, when they had consumed hundreds of dollars worth of water would die anyway. We pretty much had tree skeletons everywhere. It was the most depressing place we have ever lived.

(Disclaimer: There are trees in CO. I swear, I've seen some. Just not where we used to live)

When the girls became able to communicate and we would drive to Wisconsin to visit our family they would get so excited to see trees and green. It would start in Nebraska with corn, Iowa with corn and trees, IL ramped up the green, and then finally Wisconsin. Hills, green, trees...ah, home.

I can actually remember Ava saying "Whas dat?" while pointing up to a canopy of leaves we were driving under. I remember thinking to myself, we have got to get out of here.

We were outside a good chunk of yesterday working and playing. I had one of the girls on me laying back in the swing and looking up into our gigantic maple tree. I turned to my husband and thanked him for moving us here.

The ladies have become dandelion experts. They just don't know that they are called dandelions. I've tried to tell them but they prefer to call them yellow flowers. They pick and sniff all.day.long. Which brings us to our next set of pictures. Notice anything wrong here? I was rolling my tongue and Lily was trying to do it too.

Let's get closer. This is what Ava does when you roll your tongue in her general direction. Notice anything?

Isn't this the saddest face? All I did was tell the kid to smile, I swear. Notice the dandelion nose? My kids have had a dandelion nose everyday that we were able to go outside this week.

Oh, and this is not a dandelion either. This is a "wish." As in "Momma, Momma, wishes!"