spring was in full swing once we returned to minnesota so we decided to get out and enjoy some sun before the mosquitoes crash the party. 

mikey and daddy about to take off!

mikey’s holding on for dear life!  he actually loved the bike ride, it was the helmet he HATED.  it was three sizes too big, but they don’t seem to make a smaller one!

we rode to roseville central park (two blocks away from our place) and found some canadian geese kickin’ back in the grass.

phil went a bit closer and got a shot of the baby geese huddled together (the adult geese weren’t too thrilled with phil).  i like to think those are the too-cool-for-school teen geese a bit further away. 

which reminds me of the lone canadian goose we found while we were out for an evening stroll three nights ago.  one of his legs were injured so he couldn’t fly away, poor thing.  so he just sat alone in the grass by the high school parking lot pondering what to do.  the next night, we went walking again and saw him in the same grassy spot!  we felt really sorry for him since there was a heavy thunderstorm the previous night.  imagine him sitting there all day and all night in the pouring rain and being unable to protect himself!  wah!  so we hurried home, got some bread (couldn’t think of anything else to feed him!) and drove back to give it to him.  we kept our distance and tossed pieces of bread to him.  we returned home and phil found a number to call for local wildlife rescue people to come for him.  he left a message.  so all day today, i was hoping our goose friend would be gone.  we went walking again tonight and saw him there again!  double wah!  i came prepared with more bread and we tossed it to him.  we slowly walked away as i kept glancing back to see him watching us the whole time.    we walked around the block and came back to where he’d been sitting.  he was gone!    nowhere in sight.  so i’m optimistically believing the rescue people finally came and picked him up and would be taking care of his leg.  hopefully no one else messed with my goose friend.  i’m kinda glad the rescue people came after we left, they’d probably yell at us for giving bread to a wild bird.  still, he had to eat, right?!

anyway, that was random.  switching topics, i have a special announcement to make.  *insert trumpet fanfare.*  mikey took his first step wednesday night!!!  we were all in his playroom, i sat facing him, phil set mikey down on his feet and let go, mikey stood alone, lifted his left leg and took an official step toward me before sinking back down on his bottom.  it was all controlled and kinda slow-motiony!  course, we had no camera around so the moment passed undocumented.  so now i’ll have to follow him around armed and ready to shoot whenever he decides to take another step!  which could be a while since he’s pretty happy with the crawling bit to get him places.