Wednesday 28 April 2010

more spring

We've been dealing with various life-gets-in-the-way-of-fun stuff over the last few weeks, like finding a place to live after July and finding someone to fix our car.  Success on both counts!  We found a place to live on the northern outskirts of town, and we found a guy who has the right attitude to get mediocre cars back into serviceable shape.  So that's good.  In the meantime the weather has been awesome, so we've been biking around and hanging out outside.  Hopefully the car will be back in action this week, and we can start getting out to see more of the country pretty soon.  Grantchester is a pretty pleasant place in the springtime, though, and it was nice to spend a weekend just relaxing around the village.

We're surrounded by thatch-roofed buildings.  These guys are getting an upgrade.

We spent a lot of time at the playground this weekend.

Letting him crawl wherever he wants without worrying about destroying the house is nice.

Determined to climb up the slide.
Elevated feet for a little more challenge on the pushups.

This is his concentration face.  The puffed-out cheeks add power to whatever he's doing.  The pursed lips are just for style.

Cal is about to be picked up and put in the stroller by mom (the enforcer), but he's blissfully unaware for the moment.

The one major downside of spring is the return of the cows and the cow crap all over the paths around Grantchester.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

yeah, ubiquitus (sp?) cow crap would be a major downside to any neighborhood.

hope your car turns out ok!

Joe said...

You know sometimes I really miss the smell a manure... Really. I usually don't realize this until I actually smell it though, so maybe it's just my mind trying to make the best of a bad situation.

Kari said...

Cal is incredibly cute! Looks like a beautiful first spring for him to be exploring!

Unknown said...

Cal looks like he already has his caber toss face ready.