The Triplets of Fernwood: Taking time to smell the flowers

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Taking time to smell the flowers

I'm not exactly sure when I started having Olivia smelling flowers, but I know it started with the fake orange gerber daisies in our bathroom. Now, they all like smelling flowers and plants. This past weekend we drove up to Trenton to the farmer's market/Halo Farm for the weekly milk and meats/cheese. Many of the places are currently selling flowers and plants as well and as we strolled around we took the time to smell many of the items available including lavender, basil and mint along with roses and other flowers.

Once we got home and after nap time, we went outside to play and couldn't help but smell the fragrant aroma or the lilacs that are in the back yard. I pulled a few branches off and let them run around with them. Olivia was so funny - she kept going up to Amelia and me to have us smell the flowers. Here's a few pictures from our afternoon outside and a video (if it works) of the girls playing on our "new-to-us" Kangaroo Climber that we were lucky enough to get from a fellow triplet mom near Princeton, NJ. She posted it while we were on vacation and I happened to see the posting and Tony went to pick it up the day after we got back. So now we have an indoor and outdoor slide!