more March

Parker started the month of March by getting his second set of tubes put in his little ears, another round of blue bunnies we call them.  He had ear infection after ear infection since December so time for round two.  We are praying these last a full year as his last set only lasted about 6 months and fell out just before cold and flu season started, grrrr!

Grant had a fun filled farm field trip with his preschool class this Spring.  He was insistent he wanted to wear his John Deere hand-me-down gear from his cousin, haha!  It made him easy to spot in the crowd of kiddos!

Here he is with his best bud and neighbor, Jack, climbing around on the hay bales.

And this is about as exciting as it got for Parker!  Poor little Bear was terrified of the enormous cows and clung to me the entire time.  For at least a month after this he told us he did NOT want to go to the farm again!

Grandpa and Grandma O visited for a week in March and a grand time was had by all!

Grant thought Grandma O would like to celebrate her birthday at Chuck E. Cheese and she happily obliged!  What a good sport ;-)

Grant would NEVER have done this at the age of 2, in-fact, he is still barely interested in "puppets" at the age of 5 but Parker went right in for the big hug!

By the end of the month Easter was upon us so we joined in at a neighborhood church for an Easter egg hunt.

This is pretty much how our photo session went with the boys in their Easter outfits...

I decided not to fight this battle and just join in!

This says it all, preparing for the egg hunt at Grandpa and Grandma R's!

MARCH

Welcome to Portland Sarah and Carla!

Love, Grant

It was such a wonderful girls weekend having my besties come to visit!  The boys are still talking about Sarah and Carla and what fun they had with them ;)  Love you girls!

 We had a great hike up Multnomah Falls, always so beautiful!

An impromptu backyard picnic in March with a handful of our friends, they boys love to eat "picnic!"

Grant was so funny at his dentist appointment, his most memorable moment was getting to operate the chair!

Another rainy afternoon....actually, it wasn't raining this particular day, they just wanted to play with their umbrellas outside!

Grant has never painted with such details before and this particular painting he described as he painted, this is a coconut tree and the sunshine with the water and here is the sand with hulas....on and on and on.  He was painting Hawaii for Grandpa and Grandma O to take home with them!

A small water fight on a warmer March afternoon, Parker lost.

FEBRUARY

February was highly focused on Valentine's Day.  Grant was a champ and cut out each valentine for his classmates at preschool, 20 total!  He worked for a week cutting out a handful each day, signing his name and taping a glow stick to the back of each one, he was so proud.  The final product was pretty darn cute!

You make my heart GLOW!

Love,

Grant

My little valentine's accompanied me to Krispy Kreme on Valentine's Day!

On the baby front, at the end of the month, we had our 20 week ultrasound and everything looked perfect!  We are soooo excited to see what this little peanut is in July!!!  Grant is continuing to tell everyone that it is another Grant while Parker, on the other hand, has stuck to his guns with "sister!!"  Ha!

Grant hitting the slopes

JANUARY!  My wonderful husband has encouraged me to try posting just once a month, hitting the highlights and lowlights, it doesn't seem quite so daunting this way!  It is so nice to have many of our photos and memories all in one place so, here we go.  

To conclude the month of January...Grant begged us all winter to take him skiing for the first time so, one very sunny afternoon in January we finally obliged.  He did GREAT and was so adorable I could hardly stand it, way to go BUD!

The magic carpet on the bunny slope, SO much better than the rope tow many of us had to learn on!

Parker did fairly well as little bro, tromping around, playing in the snow and eating snacks!  The little turkey never did let us put his gloves on though!

"our" room

With the arrival of my family for the Christmas holiday we decided to bite the bullet and transition Parker into a toddler bed AND (stupidly) also move him into his brother's room!  We knew this was inevitable and thought why not just get it over with....well, hmmm, I can think of about 100 different reasons why not to have done this!  

Thankfully, Grant loves having his brother in his room and though bedtime is still most often a challenge, we are thankful they will grow-up sharing a room among many, many other things as brothers often do!  We have also learned many things about each of them during this, now 5 month process, most notably, Grant falls asleep almost instantly when his head touches his pillow while Parker takes a mere 45 minutes to an hour to finally crash.  His persistence to remain awake each night is admirable but, thankfully, we always win in the end ;)  Each morning Parker is also almost always the first to wake, this has taken some getting use to by his big brother and a LOT of patience by all to have an early riser among us, uff da!  

Grant and Parker, we love you guys and the many, many hours of sleep we've lost due to this transition is still worth it as we lay in bed most mornings listening to your laughter drifting through the hallway! xoxo ~ Mommy

hawaii part II

The last days of Hawaii....obligatory family photos on the beach!

Hawaii, we love you!

Wow, I am so incredibly far behind in blogland, ugh!  It has become a four letter word to me, however, I have high hopes of doing a few photo dumps and catching up as the birth of baby number 3 continues to approach ever so quickly!

We were blessed to spend another wonderful week in Maui this January.  Both sets of Grandparents, as well as Frank's brother and family, were all able to enjoy this paradise together, what an amazing place!
 

Feeding the fish at the hotel lobby, huge hit with all five kiddos!

Grant has really taken to the water since taking swimming lessons most of the Fall! 

 Parker tried to hold 3 balls at once, it was so funny, and cute, to watch him pick one up only to drop another one, over and over and over again!