It's Springggg!!!!

Or at least it has been for the past couple of days, haha.  Gotta love Michigan!  Yesterday was quite nice and today was even warmer...probably hitting a high of mid to high sixties!  G is a true outdoor girl.  Oh my goodness.  Today I got home from work at about 1:00 (woot!) because I didn't have any patients, so I got to spend the beautiful afternoon with my girl. 

We literally spent the whole afternoon outside.  I was able to bribe her inside once for her reading movie and a snack, but that was it!  However, she is not loving all of the rules that come with playing outside in the nice weather such as not running into the road, not climbing up on other people's porches, not joining the neighborhood boys in their game of football, not running with the dogs through our currently muddy/poopy backyard, etc.......etc. 

She thinks all of the neighborhood kids want to play with her, but the last thing they want is a baby running in the middle of their fun.  Haha, no really most of the kids are very nice and they all yell out "watch out for baby Gabi!" if she sprints in the middle of things and she loves it :)  Her name isn't Gabi or Gabrielle....it's "Baby Gabi".  The poor kid is going to have an identity crisis when she grows up because she has so many nicknames!

Yesterday we grilled out - or attempted to grill out.  Our grill isn't working so ended up George Foreman-ing it inside.  Gabs had fun crawling on our deck furniture though.....

Yes, she got up there herself.  I'm not that big of a dork to pose her up there. 

But I am a big enough dork to take a picture of it! 

And then back down on the boring chair....that didn't last long.

And then today on St. Patrick's day I took G-bear to the park for the first time this year.  I wasn't planning on it, but she was driving a little crazy so I took her here to run free!

She climbed up this slide super quick...and then I realized I had to run and

catch her so we ended up going down the slide together!

Nick's quote for this picture is "Gabrielle for Congress". 

I told him we'd have to crop out the diaper before any ads ran :)

About to go down the slide by herself!

Weeeeee!!!! The look on her face is priceless!

And then she wanted to go right back down again, but insisted on trying to climb up the slide to get there.

Carefree!

Gabrielle spotted another tot who wasn't wearing green on St. Patty's day and was ready to get a pinchin'

She thought she was super BA.....

....Until her antics about landed her on her rump.  Nick sees this differently - it's her fist pump picture because she didn't fall!

I'm such a mean mom....I left her water in the car so when she got thirsty I told her we had to go get her cup.  I got her in her car seat without any fights :)