Sea Lion Love

Date Day

A couple months ago Noah and I had a big date day that included a trip to the planetarium, a little shopping and some tasty treats!  We watched The Cardboard Rocket Ship at OMSI and after our space adventure we headed to Bridgeport for some delicious FroYo, always a favorite :)

Noah seeing how much he would weigh on
the moon, Mars, Venus & Earth!

Enjoying the show!

Mother's Day

My Mother's Day stepping stone from my sweet boys!
Love it!!!

Poop & Yoshi

Silas finally pooped in the toilet!!  It may have been about a month ago and he hasn't done it since but it did happen (once)...  I had promised Silas that he could have a snuggle Yoshi to go with snuggle Mario once he pooped in the toilet with the idea that once he actually did it he would realize how much easier it was than the diaper situation and would want to start using the toilet (with smaller forms of bribery, like Noah did :)  HA HA!!!!  After the Yoshi conversation Silas charged in the bathroom and pooped, ensuring that he would have his Yoshi doll before bedtime.  We clapped, we cheered, we had a photo shoot with Yoshi, Mario & Silas and I went to bed thinking "hallelujah, this is finally happening, no more diapers!"  HA!
Don't get me wrong he has does pee in the toilet occasionally (usually a bedtime stall tactic) and has tried to poop a time or two since but for the most part he wants nothing to do with the toilet.  We have offered up all forms of bribery and he could care less.  He has his Yoshi and is not interested in anything else we have to offer at this point...
Oh well, sooner or later it will happen (hopefully sooner)!  On the plus side, I did get some pretty adorable pics of Silas with Yoshi and Mario!

Mario and Yoshi were talking to each other!
(a very regular occurrence now, they even have
their own special voices)

Snuggles!

He was so seriously excited, notice he has his Mario & Yoshi shirt
on for the occasion!  Who am I kidding, he usually has that
shirt on every single day :)

Seriously could this kid be any cuter?!?!?!

Crazy Sock Day

A few weeks ago Noah had crazy sock day at school and he thought it would be hilarious to cover himself with socks.  I spent all evening carefully pinning socks to his outfit for the next day but upon arriving at school he decided it was not very cool and wanted them all off, go figure :)  At least I got a picture before he left the house!

Stomp Rocket

Here are a few pics of the boys playing with their new stomp rocket at Nonnie & Papa's house over Easter weekend.  It was one of those afternoons with perfect light and I got some good action shots :)

Taking good turns!

"We are being very dangerous!" - Silas

Taking a nap with his rocket ship in the driveway...

Old Soul

I am working on lots of new posts but wanted add my new favorite picture of Noah.  I took this picture with my phone a few weeks ago at the LEGO exhibit at OMSI and I am totally in love with it!  I feel like it just sums up our little Noah!  Surrounded by the chaos that is Silas and Aiden he manages to look like he is deep in thought!  Don't get me wrong, we all know he is a bit of a wild child at times but the boy has been 85 years old since the day he was born, I love it :)

And Easter

We had a pretty relaxing Easter day with the usual happenings, Easter baskets, an Easter egg hunt, a giant delicious dinner (honey baked ham with the works :) and strawberry shortcake, all my favorites!!!  Love, love, love Easter!!!

The Easter bunny came!!!

Ready to hunt!!!

Noah did not mess around this year, he tracked those
eggs down in record time :)

Showing off his findings!

As soon as they got in the house
they headed to their favorite spot at
the bottom of the stairs and went
to town  opening all their eggs!

Noah was so excited about his Pez dispenser from Nonnie and Papa
and then looked at me and said "what is it?"  Ha!!

First Pez! (sad but true)

Just had to add this one!
While we were down we celebrated Silas's birthday and I just love
the look on their faces in this picture, cracks me up!
You would have thought it was Noah's birthday and he
 just opened the best present ever :)

Eggs

I'm getting a little out of order here again... Here are a few pictures of the boys and their Easter egg fun!

I found this awesome space egg kit at Target.  It had all the dye and
everything to use on real eggs but we decided to go plastic because
I knew the boys would want to play with them when we were done!

Noah and his space creatures!

It's all fun and games until Silas gets the bucket stuck on his head...

They turned out pretty darn cute!

And the messy part!
By the time we were done we all had colorful
hands, the table looked  like a rainbow threw up on it
and almost every egg was cracked :)

Serious concentration!

Our space eggs!

Ready to make deviled eggs, yummy!