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!

Two for Tuesday School Edition

This week has been Read Across America and the students have certain things to wear for each day.

 Monday was wearing green for green eggs and ham.

Tuesday was wearing a shirt with words on it. (see him on the far left?)

Sunday Fun

The weather has been unseasonably warm and we couldn't resist playing outside. Zachy decided he needed to ride the trike. We went to our neighbor's driveway because it's paved and they weren't home. Poor thing couldn't reach the pedals so he had to lift his feet so I could push him up the hill and then he rolled down. Woo hoo!!

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!

Nathan At School

Nathan with some friends at recess

Can you spy Nathan? They were working on some math with our math partner. One partner would make up a word problem, and the other would solve it with their board and/or snap cubes.

More Celebrating

Nathan was super excited to get to choose another gift with money that he got from Nana and Papa. He is on a big kick with Legos and has been spending lots of time building whatever he can.

Thanks, Nana & Papa!

Satuday Celebration

 We got together with our neighbors because each of the families had a birthday this month. Mr. Robert (burgundy shirt on the front right) and Mr. Ralph (blue shirt on the back left) each have a birthday in February too. Chick-fil-A was a great place to celebrate and surprisingly they weren't swarmed with people. Nathan said he was celebrating with his family (It was very sweet!).

Then, Nathan used his money that he got from Nana and Papa to get a set of Legos. 

[The balloons are from Mrs. Jackie and Mr. Robert.]

Flashback Friday

Three years of birthdays....

 2/6/2015

 2/6/2016

2/6/2017

Nathan's Birthday, Part 3

We made it home in the rain. Nathan was disappointed but it was his birthday, right? We couldn't get him to decide what he wanted to eat (It's a surprise!?) and finally he determined that he'd like pizza to eat at home. Zachy and I went to pick it up and Nathan and Barry got the living room ready for a picnic.

 Another time to sing and blow out the candle!

 We enjoyed our yummy pizza and breadsticks.

 He opened his cards and gift from Uncle Tod & Aunt Michelle.

Look at all these fun Lego sets from the Michigan Stevens!

[Look at all the pizza sauce we missed wiping off his face!]

Nathn's Birthday, Part 2

After a wonderful breakfast of blueberry muffins, we headed on our way to school with cupcakes for the kids. Despite a bunch of ideas on what we could bring that all would like, Nathan was determined that the kids would need cupcakes. So, we packed up a muffin for Nathan and hoped it would work out okay. (He didn't even eat it :( said he wasn't hungry.)

We got to his classroom and Mrs. Christin had a fabulous sign and birthday hat for him. How fun!

At lunch, they had him stand on the bench and the class sang to him. He got to share his cupcakes at this time too.

Nathan's Birthday Part 1

We decided to take Nathan in to school today so we had somewhat of a leisurely morning. The boys both woke up before 5. We figured there would be time for gift-opening, so we got ready and Nathan opened his 6 gifts from smallest to largest.

 He was very excited about Spirit (not the girl doll!) and actually took it to school for Show-N-Tell.

 The other big item that Nathan has been looking for was a cowboy hat. He's on his way to being one fabulous cowboy!

 He was so excited that he was twirling his right hand like he was doing a lasso. Yee haw!

 Mrs. Jackie joined us for breakfast and brought a little gift for Nathan. (Zachy liked it a LOT - a horse trailer on a truck.)

Happy birthday, Nathan!!! Six is starting off with a bang!

Two for Nathan

I think this is going to be a week of Nathan since we're celebrating his birthday. We start out today with a 100 year old Nathan as they celebrated the 100th day of school.

The last day to be 5! He kept asking what was going to happen now that there were no more numbers to change. Five has been good for him!

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

Counting by 10s

Mrs. Christin is on a roll and has been sending quite a few pictures this week. Here's another with Nathan. They've started practicing counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s although Nathan still needs work with counting by ones. He's been working hard to write and say his numbers.

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?!