Last one for a while...

Mostly what's happened since the end of January is Mardi Gras. And then the blessed season of Lent, which I cherish, as I'm sure I mentioned last year, even more now that we live down here. Mardi Gras is fun! and exciting! and lights! and late! and crazy foods! And then ... aaaah, respite. Lent is supposed to be a time of preparing for Easter, but the first good week of it is definitely a recuperation from Mardi Gras. So, here goes re-capping all of our parades and then the day-to-day things we've gotten up to since then ... plus, maybe, a bit of interesting news in the form of an announcement (hint: 👶)

Lil big stuff + a big helper

 Garden happenings

 Lil neighborhood school parade

 Muses (on Thursday)

 Hermes (on Friday) with Mom and Dad, who hadn't been to parades IN Nola in forevah

 After Endymion (Saturday)

 Ah, some home-play on Sunday & Monday

 Zulu & Rex on Mardi Gras day!

 Ash Wednesday. Yes, Jack gets them, too, but he also rubs his face on the pew cushion😏

 Off school for the week 💜

Genius, fun me decides to go to the zoo spontaneously after school pick-up ... at 4pm ... on a Monday

(when it closes at 4 [not 5] and is never open Mondays anyway). We played "Secret Garden" on some big, ol' oaks and had a snack. Works.

Daytime buddies

 THIS yahoo

 💙 She's proud of her folding job

ON the ferry as a cruise ship was turning to head down river and then it crossed paths with the Natchez!

 Lil big stuff walks all the way home from the playground now ... and the 4yo wants to ride.

 We finally made it to the zoo! Albeit sans Paul.

 Saturday morning sillies

 How reading gets done around here sometimes😉

 First concert's already this weekend!

And then there's the fine little announcement that I will not be posting often on this blog for the next several months, as I'll be posting on this blog until, say, October, when Baby Knoll #4 will join us! We're all happy, except Jack because he doesn't know or care, and things have been going very well so far, despite exhaustion. But that could be normal anyway, ha. Hooray for more life - praise God!