Soaking up the innocence (*part 2 added below)

"Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do." ~Jean de la Bruyere

"Out with the cold and in with the woo." ~E. marshall

"It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want~oh you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so."~ mark twain

"Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush." ~Doug Larsen

"The Innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time." ~William Yeats