Logan ... that boy is busier and cuter than ever. He talks all the time. I think he really knows pretty much all words - I am always surprised what comes out of his mouth, even if it is only 3-5 words at a time. His favorite things to talk about are nursery & preschool (he loves to tell you what he eats there - mostly goldfish and crackers - and also that he plays trucks and cars with the other kids), about the new baby (how he will take care of it), and about how he wants to eat. And tattle on the other kids (Andrew did it is heard all the time!).
Speaking of the baby - he is very excited about it. He loves to rub my tummy. Basically rubs my tummy all night long because he wants to sleep with me every night, too. Sleeping with Katsu is just not the same. But he is so sweet, too. He is always telling me that he wants to see the baby and that he will take care of the baby. Sometimes, he likes to rub my tummy and then he pretend that he baby hit him. "Ouch - baby hit me". I can only imagine what it will be like with those two already.
Logan loves to play and run around with his brothers, but he also enjoys playing by himself, too. He play elaborate things with people and cars. It is so cute to listen to him make them talk. I love it. and I love that he can keep himself entertained. His favorite things to do are run around and read books. He can read books for hours. His new favorites are Elephant and Piggie, Froggie, and Arthur books. I don't know why he loves the Arthur books so much - they are long and seem way above his head, but he will sit still and loves to listen to them. He can read books for hours. He also loves to watch screentime when the boys have it. He asks for TV all the time, but we rarely watch it. He loves to watch Pete the Pirate and is obsessed with pirates. He loves to look for them all through town and also is thrilled to pieces with an old pirate ship that a friend gave us.
Logan is really loving preschool. He is sometimes still a bit hesitant to go, but he seems to genuinely enjoy it and then will spend the next 2 or 3 days telling me about what he did there. He is excited for the fall when he is in a 2 year old class and he can play on the their playground which looks pretty cool. He also enjoys nursery and is happy and excited to go each week! YAY! He finally is separating from me a little bit.
Logan loves to dig in the garden, is excited about the vegetables and flowers, and just loves life. He is a bit of a handful, loves to play hide and seek and run away from me, and throws the requisite 2 year old tantrums. He loves to play with trains at Barnes and Noble, go to story time at the library, and eat donuts together at Krispy Kreme. He loves to go places and loves to see his brothers. He is just a fun kid.
Fun Things This Month
~ February ~
- Super Bowl - snacks and fun with the family
- Setsubun - Logan was pretty scared about the Oni (he is kind of scared on monsters generally now), but loved the idea of throwing jelly beans.
- Puppet Lady at Jarvis - Logan was pretty bored, but loved the snacks and picnic.
- Lowes - Andrew was going to go with Katsu, but Logan was furious he didn't go and threw the biggest fit ever. So, I ended up taking him along and we all made Love note boxes. Logan enjoyed hammering, but honestly, I mostly put it all together.
- Lots of cold weather and snow days and fun.
- Valentine's Day - Logan enjoyed the candies and tried to not be too jealous of his big brothers' stashes.
- Working on the garden.
~ March ~
- Tagging along to soccer. Logan loves to kick the ball around on the sidelines and kicks pretty well. What a cute leftie.
- Katsu was out of town for a week, but Logan let a friend take him to preschool and went willingly. Yay! He sure missed Dad that week though.
- Grandma and Grandpa came in town. Logan drove to Raleigh with me to pick them up. And of course, we went and ate at the Chinese buffet. On Thursday, we drove to New Bern and stopped there (mostly to take a break), but we ended up walking around and trying to see all the bears. Logan had quite a bit of fun, mostly copying whatever the other boys did. It was fun, but very cold! We also stopped to see where they made Pepsi, when to the Cow Cafe place, and played at the pirate playground at the history museum. Then, we drove to Pine Knolls and went to the Aquarium. Logan loved to run around from exhibit to exhibit and especially loved the outside part The crazy part was when a shark suddenly attacked a fish. The boys were mesmerized! He didn't die (at least not then), but he had a big chunk out of him. They also got shells and got to touch sting rays and other sea animals. It was pretty cool. They also got to play at Chic-Fil-A for lunch which was fun. Grandpa was sick the rest of week, so we didn't get a chance to do anything else fun much. On Saturday, we went to the St. Patrick's Day parade which was really fun - Logan LOVED when the pirate float went by.
- St. Patrick's Day was chill - just a simple cabbage and bacon soup and Irish soda bread and green pudding. The boys loved it.
- Kid's Fest - we went to the convention center -Logan had loads of fun - I am not sure doing what, but he just found it all exciting. All week long he kept asking to go back to Kids Fest.
- Luckily, soccer was cancelled this Saturday from all the rain, so we got to spend 3 or more hours at the ECU youth arts festival. It was AMAZING. They had art projects going on in probably 50 rooms in an ECU building, plus performers. Each room had like 3 art projects. Some where kind of small, but some were super involved - pottery, making wax patterns on cloth and then painting it, painting on silk. The boys had SO much fun. Logan loved to try his hand at projects, but would get bored pretty quickly and kept trying to make a run for it. He loved getting a pirate skull painted on his face. We grabbed a dinner out afterwards because we were so tired and hadn't eaten.
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Seth in Feb & Mar 2014
Seth is still a super handful. He wants to do screen time all the time. I set up an account for each kid on the computer and can set time limits and when they are allowed to have time. He gets 30 minutes a day most days. It is the highlight of his life. It has reduced the amount of whining, but boy, he still loves to whine about it a lot. I recently told him he needs to have something else in his life that makes him happy besides screens and he told me "comic books". He also spends a lot of time looking at comic books (and subsequently leaving them littered all over the office and stairs. It's amazing how many comic books he loves to look through. ... When it's cold outside and Andrew isn't around, that is about all he likes to do. If I'm lucky, I can read to him (which he also enjoys) or he will do reading lessons on the computer or he will read to me. We got some fun books from the library where I read some of the book and he reads some of the book. He really is starting to like reading ... on his own terms, of course. He loves to read Elephant and Piggie books and Fly Guys. It's hard to tell how much is memorization and how much is reading, but I know he is doing a lot of reading. He's a little quick to guess, but I think that is about right for his level.
Thankfully, it is warming up and Seth loves to help me garden. He loves to look at the daffodils or check and see if the tulips are growing yet and is quite good at carefully planting seeds and watering the plants. He also loves to play on the playground and on his scooter and is ready for Katsu to teach him to ride his bike without training wheels. He also loves to play army/trio/lincoln logs/etc. with Andrew. And sometimes he likes to play with Logan.
His new favorite thing to play with is Snap Circuits. We got it for Christmas and really opened it up when Katsu was out of town and now Seth is always asking me if he can do his "experiments". It is so cute to hear the boys talking about resistors and switches. So fun!
We registered Seth for kindergarten. I feel comfortable that they will know how to deal with Seth without him being too bored. They can deal with kids who are already reading, so that's good. Honestly, Seth is probably more on a 1st grade level - he is doing addition and subtraction on his own at home, too, but my main goal is just that he won't be bored and he will want to go to school.
Seth still whines and complains about going to preschool sometimes. Every now and then there are still days where he refuses to go, but I don't budge and eventually he will go. He really needs to go just to get some more experiences in his life and I know he enjoys it. He has fun with his friends, loves to run around on the playground, does great on all the activities and loves to sing. His teacher says that he has exceptional behavior (not really the kind of behavior he has at home) and he has started to read in his class (which amazes the other kids). He was getting a little bored, so his teacher (who is awesome) has started to bring in some extra things for him to do - harder puzzles and activities.
He LOVES soccer (and wanted to sign up for baseball, too, which starts next month). He is really good and fast, even though he is probably the littlest kid on the team. He makes several goals each game and is just jumping around like a little jumping bean the whole time because he is so excited.
Fun Things This Month
~ February ~
- Super Bowl - snacks and fun with the family
- Setsubun - Seth LOVED throwing jelly beans at Dad and had so much fun. He was throwing them a little too hard, I think. Next year, he wants to really hurt the Oni (oh, no!)
- Puppet Lady at Jarvis - okay, we were not very impressed with the show. The lady was kind of weird and it was all about germs (and kind of gross). Seth was most interested in getting snacks. They were disappointed we didn't buy chic-fil-a. I guess for next time.
- Lowes - Seth went with Katsu to build a love note holder. Seth really liked the hammering. Physical stuff is best for this age.
- Lots of cold weather and lots of missed preschool days and snow days and fun.
- Valentine's Day - Seth enjoyed the little treats and valentines' in the morning, but spent most of the time having a huge fit because he didn't get the big box of chocolates that Katsu got. He seemed to have fun at his Valentine's party, but wouldn't tell us anything about it. Even though he brought home a big bag, he told us he didn't get any valentines and hid them all and then would bring out the candy in pieces over the next couple weeks. I kept finding toys and wrappers for ever!
- Working on the garden.
~ March ~
- Another season of soccer started. As I said, Seth loves it! His coach is really great (and from the other ward - he knew us). I love how non-competitive it is, but he played against a team with a really crazy coach last week that screamed at the kids the whole time. Glad we have a great coach.
- Katsu was out of town for a week, but Seth let a friend take him to preschool and went willingly. Yay!
- Dental health day at preschool - our friend (who is in dental school) came in and showed the kids about brushing their teeth.
- Grandma and Grandpa came in town. Katsu picked Seth up from preschool and they had a little date and then went to his work - we all came and picked Seth up and toured Katsu's work before coming home. He took a day off of school to hang out with them. And of course, we went and ate at the Chinese buffet. On Thursday, we drove to New Bern and stopped there (mostly to take a break), but we ended up walking around and trying to see all the bears. Seth had quite a bit of fun. It was fun, but very cold! We also stopped to see where they made Pepsi, when to the Cow Cafe place, and played at the pirate playground at the history museum. After that, Seth was ready to go home, but we convinced him that the aquarium would be fun - he really eneded up enjoying it.Then, we drove to Pine Knolls and went to the Aquarium. Andrew really loved it. The crazy part was when a shark suddenly attacked a fish. The boys were mesmerized! He didn't die (at least not then), but he had a big chunk out of him. They also got shells and got to touch sting rays and other sea animals. It was pretty cool. They also got to play at Chic-Fil-A for lunch which was fun. Grandpa was sick the rest of week, so we didn't get a chance to do anything else fun much. On Saturday, we went to the St. Patrick's Day parade which was really fun (and we got to stand next to Seth's friends from church) and Seth had a soccer game that he went to with Katsu.
- St. Patrick's Day was chill - just a simple cabbage and bacon soup and Irish soda bread and green pudding. The boys loved it. Seth was so excited to mix the food coloring to make the pudding.
- Kid's Fest - we went to the convention center - Seth was super excited about the free book and trying to score candy from all the booths. He also won a special egg at one booth for doing well on the bean bag toss. Plus, we found out we won a free birthday party! That should be fun for both boys to have a joint birthday party on Andrew's birthday.
- Career day at preschool. Katsu came to talk about being a scientist. The kids all loved the dry ice and it was fun to see all the other careers that were there, too.
- Luckily, soccer was cancelled this Saturday from all the rain, so we got to spend 3 or more hours at the ECU youth arts festival. It was AMAZING. They had art projects going on in probably 50 rooms in an ECU building, plus performers. Each room had like 3 art projects. Some where kind of small, but some were super involved - pottery, making wax patterns on cloth and then painting it, painting on silk. The boys had SO much fun. We grabbed a dinner out afterwards because we were so tired and hadn't eaten.
- Parent teacher conference. Seth is doing wonderful, of course!
Thankfully, it is warming up and Seth loves to help me garden. He loves to look at the daffodils or check and see if the tulips are growing yet and is quite good at carefully planting seeds and watering the plants. He also loves to play on the playground and on his scooter and is ready for Katsu to teach him to ride his bike without training wheels. He also loves to play army/trio/lincoln logs/etc. with Andrew. And sometimes he likes to play with Logan.
His new favorite thing to play with is Snap Circuits. We got it for Christmas and really opened it up when Katsu was out of town and now Seth is always asking me if he can do his "experiments". It is so cute to hear the boys talking about resistors and switches. So fun!
We registered Seth for kindergarten. I feel comfortable that they will know how to deal with Seth without him being too bored. They can deal with kids who are already reading, so that's good. Honestly, Seth is probably more on a 1st grade level - he is doing addition and subtraction on his own at home, too, but my main goal is just that he won't be bored and he will want to go to school.
Seth still whines and complains about going to preschool sometimes. Every now and then there are still days where he refuses to go, but I don't budge and eventually he will go. He really needs to go just to get some more experiences in his life and I know he enjoys it. He has fun with his friends, loves to run around on the playground, does great on all the activities and loves to sing. His teacher says that he has exceptional behavior (not really the kind of behavior he has at home) and he has started to read in his class (which amazes the other kids). He was getting a little bored, so his teacher (who is awesome) has started to bring in some extra things for him to do - harder puzzles and activities.
He LOVES soccer (and wanted to sign up for baseball, too, which starts next month). He is really good and fast, even though he is probably the littlest kid on the team. He makes several goals each game and is just jumping around like a little jumping bean the whole time because he is so excited.
Fun Things This Month
~ February ~
- Super Bowl - snacks and fun with the family
- Setsubun - Seth LOVED throwing jelly beans at Dad and had so much fun. He was throwing them a little too hard, I think. Next year, he wants to really hurt the Oni (oh, no!)
- Puppet Lady at Jarvis - okay, we were not very impressed with the show. The lady was kind of weird and it was all about germs (and kind of gross). Seth was most interested in getting snacks. They were disappointed we didn't buy chic-fil-a. I guess for next time.
- Lowes - Seth went with Katsu to build a love note holder. Seth really liked the hammering. Physical stuff is best for this age.
- Lots of cold weather and lots of missed preschool days and snow days and fun.
- Valentine's Day - Seth enjoyed the little treats and valentines' in the morning, but spent most of the time having a huge fit because he didn't get the big box of chocolates that Katsu got. He seemed to have fun at his Valentine's party, but wouldn't tell us anything about it. Even though he brought home a big bag, he told us he didn't get any valentines and hid them all and then would bring out the candy in pieces over the next couple weeks. I kept finding toys and wrappers for ever!
- Working on the garden.
~ March ~
- Another season of soccer started. As I said, Seth loves it! His coach is really great (and from the other ward - he knew us). I love how non-competitive it is, but he played against a team with a really crazy coach last week that screamed at the kids the whole time. Glad we have a great coach.
- Katsu was out of town for a week, but Seth let a friend take him to preschool and went willingly. Yay!
- Dental health day at preschool - our friend (who is in dental school) came in and showed the kids about brushing their teeth.
- Grandma and Grandpa came in town. Katsu picked Seth up from preschool and they had a little date and then went to his work - we all came and picked Seth up and toured Katsu's work before coming home. He took a day off of school to hang out with them. And of course, we went and ate at the Chinese buffet. On Thursday, we drove to New Bern and stopped there (mostly to take a break), but we ended up walking around and trying to see all the bears. Seth had quite a bit of fun. It was fun, but very cold! We also stopped to see where they made Pepsi, when to the Cow Cafe place, and played at the pirate playground at the history museum. After that, Seth was ready to go home, but we convinced him that the aquarium would be fun - he really eneded up enjoying it.Then, we drove to Pine Knolls and went to the Aquarium. Andrew really loved it. The crazy part was when a shark suddenly attacked a fish. The boys were mesmerized! He didn't die (at least not then), but he had a big chunk out of him. They also got shells and got to touch sting rays and other sea animals. It was pretty cool. They also got to play at Chic-Fil-A for lunch which was fun. Grandpa was sick the rest of week, so we didn't get a chance to do anything else fun much. On Saturday, we went to the St. Patrick's Day parade which was really fun (and we got to stand next to Seth's friends from church) and Seth had a soccer game that he went to with Katsu.
- St. Patrick's Day was chill - just a simple cabbage and bacon soup and Irish soda bread and green pudding. The boys loved it. Seth was so excited to mix the food coloring to make the pudding.
- Kid's Fest - we went to the convention center - Seth was super excited about the free book and trying to score candy from all the booths. He also won a special egg at one booth for doing well on the bean bag toss. Plus, we found out we won a free birthday party! That should be fun for both boys to have a joint birthday party on Andrew's birthday.
- Career day at preschool. Katsu came to talk about being a scientist. The kids all loved the dry ice and it was fun to see all the other careers that were there, too.
- Luckily, soccer was cancelled this Saturday from all the rain, so we got to spend 3 or more hours at the ECU youth arts festival. It was AMAZING. They had art projects going on in probably 50 rooms in an ECU building, plus performers. Each room had like 3 art projects. Some where kind of small, but some were super involved - pottery, making wax patterns on cloth and then painting it, painting on silk. The boys had SO much fun. We grabbed a dinner out afterwards because we were so tired and hadn't eaten.
- Parent teacher conference. Seth is doing wonderful, of course!
Andrew in Feb & March 2014
Andrew, Andrew, Andrew.
What is this kid up to? Reading - he is really really loving the Magic Tree House books - I think he is on #26 now. He loves to read them at night when the other boys have already fallen asleep or just whenever. I think he will definitely be done with the series by the end of the summer - probably before then. I am so excited to see him love reading and love all the things he is learning.
Andrew has been busy in school. He keeps moving up levels in reading at school so all the reading at home must be doing something. He does pretty well at math - they have been learning two digit addition and subtraction (without carrying and borrowing) and are now doing hundreds chart. In science, Andrew learned about the moon and has been coming home with all kinds of science sheets - so they must be learning something! He learned a lot about Black History in February.
It has been really cold lately. Walking School bus has been cancelled a lot lately, so I or Katsu have to take him to school on the way to work. Sometimes, it has been raining a lot, so I will drive to pick him up because I remember hating walking in the rain when I was a kid. But he must be becoming like me because he has been telling me "You should have just walked. I don't mind walking in the rain.". They don't have outside PE when it is too cold, so they stay inside and do things like dance to Just Dance for Kids videos on youtube. It cracks me up, but Andrew loves to show us his moves.
Fun Things This Month
~ February ~
- Super Bowl - snacks and fun with the family
- Setsubun - Andrew totally knows it's Katsu, but he still loves throwing jelly beans at Dad. The tricky thing was finding jelly beans for it.
- Puppet Lady at Jarvis - okay, we were not very impressed with the show. The lady was kind of weird and it was all about germs (and kind of gross). Andrew really enjoyed using his allowance to buy snacks for him and to share with the other boys. They were disappointed we didn't buy chic-fil-a. I guess for next time.
- Lowes - Andrew went with Katsu to build a love note holder. He enjoyed it, hammering things in.
- Ultrasound - Andrew didn't get to see it but was a little disappointed that we are having a new boy. He got over it quick and is excited to tell everyone that I am pregnant.
- Cold weather - a 3 hr early release, a day off school, and a 2 hr delay. Snow. So. Much. Snow. This. Year.
- Valentine's Day - Andrew enjoyed the treats we shared at breakfast and all the fun valentines. He had a (really low key party at school - basically just treats), and I was able to come to the party and help pass out the snacks. The hit was Krispy Kreme heart donuts. Andrew got lots of valentines and loved opening them and eating all the candies. He was pretty good at sharing with his brothers.
- Working on the garden. Andrew has enjoyed helping water and planting seeds and loves to watch the plants every day. He is especially excited about the strawberries and can't wait to show them to everyone he sees.
~ March ~
- Another season of soccer started. Andrew works really hard and really wants to try to get better. He is not aggressive and has a hard time getting himself out there, but he has a good sense of where to be on the field and is getting better slowly. He has games each weekend and practice every Thursday evening. Soon he will have games during the week as well.
- Grandma and Grandpa came in town. Andrew was excited to see them when he came home on the walking school bus and to play with them. He took a day off of school to hang out with them. And of course, we went and ate at the Chinese buffet. On Thursday, we drove to New Bern and stopped there (mostly to take a break), but we ended up walking around and trying to see all the bears. Andrew was upset that we didn't get to see all the bears (but there are like 50). It was fun, but very cold! We also stopped to see where they made Pepsi, when to the Cow Cafe place, and played at the pirate playground at the history museum. Then, we drove to Pine Knolls and went to the Aquarium. Andrew really loved it. The crazy part was when a shark suddenly attacked a fish. The boys were mesmerized! He didn't die (at least not then), but he had a big chunk out of him. They also got shells and got to touch sting rays and other sea animals. It was pretty cool. They also got to play at Chic-Fil-A for lunch which was fun. Grandpa was sick the rest of week, so we didn't get a chance to do anything else fun much. On Saturday, we went to the St. Patrick's Day parade which was really fun and Andrew had a soccer game.
- St. Patrick's Day was chill - just a simple cabbage and bacon soup and Irish soda bread and green pudding. The boys loved it.
- Kid's Fest - we went to the convention center - he was a little old, but he did get a free book and some candy, which he loved. Plus, we found out we won a free birthday party! That should be fun for both boys to have a joint birthday party on Andrew's birthday.
- College week at school. Andrew got to wear a college hat one day (Michigan) and an ECU shirt another day. Funny story - I said he could wear a college shirt, and he asked if he could wear his Cardinals or Red Sox shirt. No, prof. sports teams are not colleges. It was a fun break from the usual uniform.
- Luckily, soccer was cancelled this Saturday from all the rain, so we got to spend 3 or more hours at the ECU youth arts festival. It was AMAZING. They had art projects going on in probably 50 rooms in an ECU building, plus performers. Each room had like 3 art projects. Some where kind of small, but some were super involved - pottery, making wax patterns on cloth and then painting it, painting on silk. The boys had SO much fun and Andrew was sad we had to leave. We grabbed a dinner out afterwards because we were so tired and hadn't eaten.
What is this kid up to? Reading - he is really really loving the Magic Tree House books - I think he is on #26 now. He loves to read them at night when the other boys have already fallen asleep or just whenever. I think he will definitely be done with the series by the end of the summer - probably before then. I am so excited to see him love reading and love all the things he is learning.
Andrew has been busy in school. He keeps moving up levels in reading at school so all the reading at home must be doing something. He does pretty well at math - they have been learning two digit addition and subtraction (without carrying and borrowing) and are now doing hundreds chart. In science, Andrew learned about the moon and has been coming home with all kinds of science sheets - so they must be learning something! He learned a lot about Black History in February.
It has been really cold lately. Walking School bus has been cancelled a lot lately, so I or Katsu have to take him to school on the way to work. Sometimes, it has been raining a lot, so I will drive to pick him up because I remember hating walking in the rain when I was a kid. But he must be becoming like me because he has been telling me "You should have just walked. I don't mind walking in the rain.". They don't have outside PE when it is too cold, so they stay inside and do things like dance to Just Dance for Kids videos on youtube. It cracks me up, but Andrew loves to show us his moves.
Fun Things This Month
~ February ~
- Super Bowl - snacks and fun with the family
- Setsubun - Andrew totally knows it's Katsu, but he still loves throwing jelly beans at Dad. The tricky thing was finding jelly beans for it.
- Puppet Lady at Jarvis - okay, we were not very impressed with the show. The lady was kind of weird and it was all about germs (and kind of gross). Andrew really enjoyed using his allowance to buy snacks for him and to share with the other boys. They were disappointed we didn't buy chic-fil-a. I guess for next time.
- Lowes - Andrew went with Katsu to build a love note holder. He enjoyed it, hammering things in.
- Ultrasound - Andrew didn't get to see it but was a little disappointed that we are having a new boy. He got over it quick and is excited to tell everyone that I am pregnant.
- Cold weather - a 3 hr early release, a day off school, and a 2 hr delay. Snow. So. Much. Snow. This. Year.
- Valentine's Day - Andrew enjoyed the treats we shared at breakfast and all the fun valentines. He had a (really low key party at school - basically just treats), and I was able to come to the party and help pass out the snacks. The hit was Krispy Kreme heart donuts. Andrew got lots of valentines and loved opening them and eating all the candies. He was pretty good at sharing with his brothers.
- Working on the garden. Andrew has enjoyed helping water and planting seeds and loves to watch the plants every day. He is especially excited about the strawberries and can't wait to show them to everyone he sees.
~ March ~
- Another season of soccer started. Andrew works really hard and really wants to try to get better. He is not aggressive and has a hard time getting himself out there, but he has a good sense of where to be on the field and is getting better slowly. He has games each weekend and practice every Thursday evening. Soon he will have games during the week as well.
- Grandma and Grandpa came in town. Andrew was excited to see them when he came home on the walking school bus and to play with them. He took a day off of school to hang out with them. And of course, we went and ate at the Chinese buffet. On Thursday, we drove to New Bern and stopped there (mostly to take a break), but we ended up walking around and trying to see all the bears. Andrew was upset that we didn't get to see all the bears (but there are like 50). It was fun, but very cold! We also stopped to see where they made Pepsi, when to the Cow Cafe place, and played at the pirate playground at the history museum. Then, we drove to Pine Knolls and went to the Aquarium. Andrew really loved it. The crazy part was when a shark suddenly attacked a fish. The boys were mesmerized! He didn't die (at least not then), but he had a big chunk out of him. They also got shells and got to touch sting rays and other sea animals. It was pretty cool. They also got to play at Chic-Fil-A for lunch which was fun. Grandpa was sick the rest of week, so we didn't get a chance to do anything else fun much. On Saturday, we went to the St. Patrick's Day parade which was really fun and Andrew had a soccer game.
- St. Patrick's Day was chill - just a simple cabbage and bacon soup and Irish soda bread and green pudding. The boys loved it.
- Kid's Fest - we went to the convention center - he was a little old, but he did get a free book and some candy, which he loved. Plus, we found out we won a free birthday party! That should be fun for both boys to have a joint birthday party on Andrew's birthday.
- College week at school. Andrew got to wear a college hat one day (Michigan) and an ECU shirt another day. Funny story - I said he could wear a college shirt, and he asked if he could wear his Cardinals or Red Sox shirt. No, prof. sports teams are not colleges. It was a fun break from the usual uniform.
- Luckily, soccer was cancelled this Saturday from all the rain, so we got to spend 3 or more hours at the ECU youth arts festival. It was AMAZING. They had art projects going on in probably 50 rooms in an ECU building, plus performers. Each room had like 3 art projects. Some where kind of small, but some were super involved - pottery, making wax patterns on cloth and then painting it, painting on silk. The boys had SO much fun and Andrew was sad we had to leave. We grabbed a dinner out afterwards because we were so tired and hadn't eaten.
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