It didn’t feel like spring today (temperatures hovering in the mid-50s), but it certainly looked like the world is coming alive again. The trees are turning green. The early flowers are out. The sky was a radiant blue. I’m not sure if the beauty of the day had anything to do with it, but the kids were in rare form.

Especially Alden.

She is a spirited kid, to be sure.

But today, she was in full glory.

She had insisted on wearing her party dress.

And pink leather boots.

Eventually, it became clear, that what she wanted was to jump.

And so she did.

And so she landed.

Only to rise again.

If this is what a whiff of spring is going to do to those kids, I’m not sure I’m prepared for what might happen when summer arrives.

We’ll find out soon enough.