happy st. patty's day!

"breakfast, mommy!" adella's stuffy nose/cough is much better today. in fact, it's almost non-existant. strange, but i'm not complaining. i still hesitate to let her play too closely with the other kids, just in case. so we decided to take a hike. the parkway has just re-opened recently, so we took a short drive and found a nice easy trail. the weather was beautiful and we had a fun time wandering around in the woods: anybody home? adella has a cute new habit of walking up to trees and saying, "hi tree!" in honor of st. patrick (and because adella is really into squishing things [food] lately) i decided to make some green play-doh for adella today. squishy fun! p.s. in case anyone was wondering or worrying, i talked to fyffe about ada's spots. she said she thinks they are going away already, so they can't be chicken pox. and just as i was getting myself ready to get the darn things done and over with... i was actually a little disappointed to hear that it's not chicken pox.