St Patty's DayWeekend at Treasure Lake

We went to visit my mom and sisters in PA while she was up there for a few weeks!  We had a great weekend :)  The kids loved playing down by the water and throwing in rocks!  Alex especially loved looking for HUGE rocks to throw in... he was so cute because he'd get a bunch of them in a pile then throw as fast as he could.  He just couldn't get enough of it! 

Gary and I got to enjoy a nice afternoon to ourselves while grandma watched the boys!  We went to lunch, shopped, and got coffee... always LOVE getting in a date with my man ;) 

Saturday was St. Patrick's Day!  Alex had been noticing all of the "green decorations" and displays over the last couple of weeks.  He loved the fact that the holiday is centered around the color green because it's his absolute favorite color!  He wants EVERYTHING to be green if it's ever an option... it's his choice in cups, plates, clothes, coloring, paper, etc.  Their shirts from last year both still fit pretty well (my tiny boys!) and they were both really excited to wear them :)  We had a "Treasure Hunt" with clues that led them to the "treasure"  Alex LOVED it (in fact, we spent the rest of the weekend making up more of them!)

 Here he is running to the next clue!

 The "treasure"!  (green necklaces, gold coins that alex calls "dabloons", green candy, and green balloons! 

 We all went to see The Lorax in the theatre together one afternoon!  The boys did great!  It was Nathan's second movie in the theatre, and with special treats like popcorn and suckers, he sat pretty well for the whole movie.  It was really cute and a nice treat since we very rarely go to the theatre anymore!  We also had a campfire and roasted marshmellows! 

We had a great time!  The kids just love their grandma and aunts! 

Pictures

The end of February/beginning of March was busy!  Mostly it was spent on the couch taking care of sick kids... First, Alex came down with a virus that lasted an entire week (fevers, cold, etc.), Nathan had a version of it too but without the fever, just a bad cold.  We literally didn't leave the house for a week!  

 The kids painted some canvases to use as art in our basement/play room!  They turned out really cute!

Superheros and couch cushions became a new favorite activity!  Both boys love playing superhero... they run around getting the monsters and dinosaurs :)

Just as Alex was getting over the virus, great grandpa and grandma came for a quick visit!  We had fun showing Great Grandpa the house and playing together :)

Love that my boys love books so much, had to include one of them reading together ;)

Another favorite toy continues to be hotwheels/airplanes... we made a parking lot and an airport to play with cars on!  Alex loves it!!

The boys are playing much more nicely together lately (not to say there isn't any fighting...)  Here they are playing "rocket" on the steps!  Alex definitely takes the role of the "leader" and tells Nathan what to do.  I guess that's how big brothers are ;)

Here's a fort daddy built one afternoon!  Speaking of daddy... he started his masters this month and that has made things much busier around here too!!  It's a lot of time/work!  He's getting it online, which is nice.  His plan is a double masters in Cybersecurity and his MBA in 3 years.  He's really enjoying it so far :)

My mom and Cassie came back a few days after she brought grandpa to spend some time with us while my sister was on spring break :)  We had fun shopping, going out to eat, visiting and playing at home, and spending a day downtown being "tourists" 

The day after they left, Alex got sick again, but with strep :(  His fever was up to 103.5 and he was miserable.  After a couple of doeses of the antibiotic he was much better, thankfully! 



More to come on St Patrick's day and our visit to the lake soon ;)  And sorry for the complete disorganization of this post... I realize it is completely all over the place! 

Kid Quotes

I've been telling myself I need to write this stuff down and always forget!  Here are a few recent stories before I put it off and forget again ;)

Normally I put Nathan in the boys' room with the gate up when I take a shower and Alex can play downstairs or in the spare bedroom.  The other day they were playing so nicely together (and I hated to interrupt it haha!)  but I needed to shower and get ready... so Alex BEGGED me to let him play with Nathan and they both went in their room with the gate up.  A couple of minutes after I got out of the shower Alex starts yelling "MOOOOM!  I've gotta pee!!!"  So I go let him out to use the bathroom, then go to finish getting ready.  About 2 minutes later, Nathan starts yelling "MOOOOOM!  I gotta pee!!"  Too cute!!  He was peeking over the gate and I was like "you have to pee, huh?" and as serious as can be he just kept saying "ya, gotta pee mommy!"  Love it! 

At lunch today I was eating a "taco salad" with rice, corn, taco meat, sour cream, etc. Alex asked what I was having for lunch and I told him it was a "taco salad" and he looks at me with this confused face and says "No it isn't... there's no taco, and no salad" 

For the past week or so Nathan has been wanting to bring all of his stuff down with him after nap/bedtime... (minus the paci that he knows stays in his crib).  He comes down with his "spidey banket", "ball banket", "bear", "little bear", "piwow", "tiny banket", and sometimes even whatever books are in there!  It's pretty cute watching him try to carry everything around. 

I said something (can't remember what exactly) about police keeping us safe, and Alex laughed at me and said "there's no bad guys in real life... bad stuff just happens in PRETEND life, mom!"  He was totally and completely serious and was just giggling at me.  A couple of days later we heard sirens and saw an ambulance and I said what I usually say when they get excited over sirens, that I'm glad they are rushing quickly to whoever needs them and that I hope no one is hurt.  He acted, again, like I was crazy and told me that doesn't happen in real life!  Love the innocence of kids, but I also didn't realize how out of touch with reality my four year old is. 

Alex asked me where Transformers live in real life!  He was totally seriuos and after a little conversation about it he told me he thinks they're in the woods.  I think after a few minutes longer I convinced him, but wow.   The funny thing is he frequently makes comments when he sees things on tv or whatever about how it is just pretend, I guess maybe he was hoping that transformers are real?

Nathan totally overuses the word "weird"... it can be over the littlest thing but he'll tell us often "thas weird" (leaving out the "r" sound)  It can be used for anything at all out of the ordinary, and he uses it A LOT!

Nathan calls anything that looks "gross" a booger. 

Anytime Nathan sees my kindle in view he asks me to play "angy bewds" (angry birds)  the funny thing is, he has only even played it a couple of times ever, I guess it had a huge impression on him!