Is there anything so lovely?

Warm sunshine on our faces and backs, I had the joy of taking the boys to a slice of heaven today!
We gathered together with friends of various ages for a frolic in the park. Not playground with the brightly colored metal or plastic equipment set with graffiti and "educational drawings". But beautiful park. No buildings, no wires, no smoggy polluted smell. Streams with squishy sand through toes, green grass, ducks and woodpeckers, trees starting to bud, Magnolia trees in bloom, the Rhododendrun just turning to flower, daffodils, tulips. Picnic blankets with momma's sitting and having a good tongue wag, while the children played. Really played. and came to show off their sticks and muddy toes.
When offered to take the bus or walk along the river to the 2nd bus stop, both children shouted WALK! and so we walked, or better said "ambled" along...soaking in the sunshine, climbing walls, the boys picked dandelions and long pieces of grass to give to me. The rich beauty of it all as we headed into the tide of people flowing home from a busy day in the urban center. Their faces weren't full of worry and anxiety and general crossness as they were in january. These people were ambling too, barely smiling (which is saying something for where we live!), jackets over their shoulders with just a finger hanging on. Home we went to yummy leftover veg soup, to baths, to snug down in freshly washed sheets (dried crisp and sunkissed on the line). Is there anything so lovely?

More things they say...

3 yo says: I want to be by myself, go away
6 yo: I want to be with you.
3 yo: But momma will be scared, she's all by herself (in the kitchen)
6 yo: Momma isn't scared of monsters, monsters are scared of her!

3 yo: That's not asectuple. ( I think meant acceptable)

3 yo: Don't be noxious, Ethan.

3 yo: You're not as pretty yet.
Me: What do you mean?
3 yo: You need you're married dress.

3 yo: I am going to eat this so Jesus can try some in my belly.