Playing outside in the springtime.

You need to throw on a hat and jacket this time of year to play outside, but Clara insists we go outside for a bit everyday.  She just stands by the back door and bangs on the glass till we put her coat on.  When we slide the door open, she squeals with delight!

To say she's a happy girl outside in an understatement.  She is constantly moving.  She walks all the way across the yard and back again, over and over.  She walks to the new planter ring that Kurtis built around one of our trees and sits on the edge of it, but only for a second.  Then she's up and moving again!

 She sometimes likes to swing on her new turkey swing from Opa and Oma.

 She usually just likes to push it back and forth.

 See what I mean?  She just keeps wandering!  She's always surrounded by her puppies.

 Here she's got her little finger out saying "no, no".  We've had to go over this a lot lately.  She has a bad habit of grabbing potting soil and eating it.  So we've been saying, "no, no" about the soil many times each day.  She knows it is off limits, but doesn't always obey.  Usually she'll say, "no, no" and then grabs a handful of soil and puts it in her mouth.

We're glad she's an outdoorsy little thing.  I think she fits into our family just fine!