Escape To Our Wild Place

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

-Robert Frost

In this age of video games and battery powered toys,

we much prefer God's beautiful creation as the playground for our littles.

There's just something about getting lost in a wild place with your children.

Sunday afternoon...daddy stayed home with the two babies...and mommy got to take the littles out.

We took a walk to the spring and little creek that is behind our house.

What a refreshing time...

signs of spring...on a cool day...

We found a vine swing and the tree that Uncle Cory marked for the boys in October on a hunting trip one day.

and the real reason for the walk...for the boys anyway...catching crawfish...

we even got LouLou to hold a tiny one...but she threw it down...she claims it was biting her...

while the boys were searching for crawfish...I got to walk around with my girl...I'm hoping she'll love the quiet wild places as much as her mamma

She got to be quite excited when she would spot a patch of trillium.

and our little escape wasn't problem free...

this boy got really upset when mom suggested he let his crawfish go because we forgot to bring something to put them in...

he let it go and was brokenhearted...

he even declared he was never looking for crawfish again...

but he did...

 I called dad...and he looked up crawfish on the internet...let us know that they can breathe out of water...and we brought one home for the aquarium.