Crazy March Weather

We woke up this morning and found some crazy white stuff on the ground. What is that all about?

We had already put away hats and gloves and had to scramble to get them out for today.

The locals are hopeful this will help with allergies since the dreaded Bradford Pear trees are blooming (stinky fish). Thankfully, all of us have been doing pretty good and haven't had anything terrible to complain about, just a few runny noses. Maybe this will be our last cold snap?!

Bird Seeders

Do you know what a bird seeder is? It's a cute adaptation of bird feeder. You put bird seed in it, so it should be a bird seeder, right?!

Last summer, before school started back, our bird seeder was taken down. We think that some high schooler were causing havoc because our sunflower was also cut down. In any case, we replaced the feeder with a new one because we needed to keep feeding the birds. The new one seems to be more difficult to eat from (or perhaps harder on the squirrels to knock over) and the bird seed lasts longer. Since the old one mysteriously was found, we decided to get both of them out for the birds coming back after the winter.

 [Nathan's in this big thing about posing and making funny faces. Zach isn't quite so sure about it.]

Crazy Hair Day!

Today was Crazy Hair Day. We got hair gel for the boys' hair because Nathan thought he wanted to do a Mohawk. When it came down to it, he didn't want to do it. I did Zachy's hair and he still didn't want it. I made him and you can see how happy he was with me.

Nathan's hair stayed crazy for the day, but when we got Zach, his hair was back to normal. When we got home, Nathan had me brush out his hair as he had enough!

It's been fun!

Sweet Baby

One of my good friends just had a baby and sent us an announcement. Zachy is so in love with babies and loved looking at it. It's kind of fun at this age when they notice others. When Nathan was this age, he would point out babies wherever we went.

Zachy - 2 years, 7 months

Flashback.... 10/2014

Nathan and our new car

2 years, 7 months

First Daffodils

We saw our first daffodils today at our neighbor's house and then Zachy and I decided to go for a walk and we came back to take pictures. Zach had a rough time tonight when Barry and Nathan left and cried for a good long time. Finally when I got him in the stroller he calmed down and was able to enjoy the walk. Periodically throughout the night though, he'd ask where Daddy was.

Friday Flashback

Some videos from August 2017 that I couldn't resist sharing.

Zachy's growing up!

Did you catch what Zach said?

Apple

Typical sibling arguing :)

Throwback Thursday

Here's a throwback to some fun from August

Helping with laundry

 8/18/17

 8/24/17

 8/27/17

8/30/17

So much fun with kitties

Happy Valentine's Day!

We came up with things that we loved about each of the boys and added one each day of February. I tried to get the boys to take a picture with the hearts that we have been putting up and this is what we got:

Eating a biscuit.

 Zach wouldn't let Nathan take a picture by himself (still eating the biscuit).

 Now Nathan could have his turn.

Silly one!

Throwback Thursday

 Zachy with his lawnmower (look at those curls!).

8/12/17

 Nana & Papa came for a quick visit.

8/12/17

 Daddy & Nathan were twins, but Zachy had to get in on the action too.

8/15/17

Mom & Zachy night - Zachy writing in the shaving cream.

8/15/17

Craft Night

Tonight was Center night for Nathan, so Zachy and I got to hang out together. We decided to make some crafts. I painted his foot to make fire trucks and his hand in a special Valentines pattern.

Zachy just had his 2 1/2 year check-up. In 6 months, he's gained 2 1/2 pounds and grown 3 inches! So, he's now in the 75th percentile for his height and weight. He's 32.5 pounds and 37.5 inches tall. Evidently he's been staying healthy and growing up a storm!

Tool Time

Our friends gave us a tool bench and the boys have been excitedly trying everything out. The tools make noise and work with the screws and other pieces.

Here, you wanna see?!

Sunday Shenanigans

Can you believe that this picture follows the crazy weather that we had this week? The last two days we've been in the 60s! We found one spot that had a little bit of snow left (they had built a snowman), but other than a standing water, there was nothing much left. We didn't even wear a jacket to church today. (It was funny because Zachy was looking for his coat when we got out of his class.)

 The day was absolutely beautiful!

Zach had picked up the wagon from the garage and then decided he needed it inside. Next thing I know, he's got his grocery cart in it. He saw me get the camera out and said, "Cheese!" What a cutie pie!

You Better Watch Out....

Zachy's been surprising us by singing to a variety of things (Let it Go is a favorite and sometimes he'll sing with the radio), but we couldn't resist capturing this since it's holiday related and such! :)

Then, it's time to go to Brother and sing together.

[He's so cute when he says "Brother!"]

It's Zachy's Birthday

Although we've only made posters for the last couple years for Nathan's birthday, it is expected for birthdays now and had to be done for Zachy. I asked Nathan what to put on Zach's and he said right off a cat. That's what I thought too!

 When I got him out of bed this morning, he looked over and saw it and made his cute cooing sound that he makes when he sees kitties. It was sweet.

This is my kitty!

 Poor thing was woken up at 5:45am on his birthday. We were lucky to get this picture.

 We tried to do a brothers one, but Zach was over it.

To get this one for Facebook, I had to drag him over and hold him down. 

We really didn't have time to open gifts (as the birthday boy was still half asleep) and there was no room in the car to bring them so we decided to save them for our return. The big one would really need to be opened and played with immediately and that wasn't going to happen at 6:00am.

Happy 2nd birthday, Zach!!!

Special Trick

Zachy has a special skill... Can you figure it out?

 Hmmm... His fingers are orange so he's sticking them in something...

 Oh... oh I can see it's on the index finger...

I see! He's picking up a spaghettio on his finger! 

What a trick!

Patriotic Brothers

Daycare encouraged the kids to wear red, white, and blue so we got ahead of the game and were patriotic a day early. 

Happy 4th!

Throwback Thursday

Facebook has reminded me lately of some things that have happened in the last couple years that were fun memories. It's amazing the changes that have happened in a couple years, but also the things that are the same.

Nathan enjoying the pool

6/22/14

Here I am with Nathan (and Zach)

6/17/15

Zachy and I went for a bike ride as he was home sick with me (I think it was a fever).

6/21/16

While the changes show that life has moved on and responsibilities are different (yet the same), the desire to keep track of what is going on in our lives with pictures, continues. It's much harder to stay on top of what's going on with this blog, but I'm trying to keep a record for our family. I've not been good to keep a baby book (and poor Zach still doesn't have his 1st year photo book yet!) so I hope this will be a record to what went on while they grew up.

Friday Funday

 Donuts with Dad (at daycare)

 Nathan worked on these puzzles by himself and had to have his picture taken.

Zachy with Smokey