First haircut

This little man was starting to get just a little bit of a comb-over thing going and I'm having my sister take his 6 months pictures next week, so spontaneously we decided to give him a trim this afternoon. I'm glad my sister was standing by with her camera to take pictures and talk me through it.

I just love that he is such a happy baby. After we got past the colic stage - he has been just so fun. His cousin was singing "Twinkle, Twinkle little star" to him and he loved it.

I have never cut Miss Peanut's hair and was just a little nervous, but after the first trim it was okay - it's just hair - it grows back. And he is just so darn cute! You'll have to wait for the after pictures until she takes pictures next week!

So in love with this girl! We have had our share of 2 year old moments...so far they haven't been horrible. Her favorite thing to say right now is "I can't want to." We have, in the last 3 weeks, done really well with the potty training thing. Now that she is doing so good, though I get busy and forget to ask if it's been a while - so I can't blame her too much when she's had an accident. So proud of her though. I can't believe she is so grown up! She is very polite, most of the time. I love that she says please and thank you. And she has so much personality - she's just so funny and I love watching the gears turn in her head and just waiting for what comes out - most of the time it's hilarious.

Our "couch potato" day. Einsteins and Curious George have been our staples while the kids were sick.

We are still working at this napping/ no napping thing. If she doesn't she's like this at dinner.

If she does - she's up until ten. I tried getting her up earlier and doing an earlier short nap and she seemed to do better today, we'll see if that goes well. I'm just grateful that my kids are finally sleeping better at night again. We've been getting out in the beautiful spring weather more - and just loving it. Miss peanut just plays so hard and by bed time she is just exhausted.

Top o' the Mornin' to ya!

A Sneaky little leprechaun visited our house in the wee hours of the mornin' today. Miss Peanut followed his track around the house and found that he left his hat on her chair with some clues to follow to the end of the rainbow.

Along the way she found some four-leaf clover cookies, green milk in our fridge, green dishes for breakfast, and at the end of the rainbow clues she found a pot of gold and some lucky charms.








Happy St. Patrick's Day!

No place like home.

I knew that I wanted to do something more for officer because he would be turning 30 on his birthday, but wasn't sure that I could pull off a fabulous surprise party. Instead, I had this great idea that I would try to surprise him by taking him home to California to celebrate with his family. This played out pretty well until just a couple weeks before when he had all sorts of court subpoenas scheduled, so the surprise was gone, but we still made the trip! Unfortunately - I am the worst with taking the camera out and snapping lots of pictures so more pictures will come of the birthday party when I gather them from family. Officer loves this time of year out there and he and I haven't been out to CA in the early spring since we were engaged, so it was really great to go when it was so green and beautiful - this was a picture of the property where Officer grew up (a little fuzzy). It is really amazing how you can disappear down a small dirt, canopy covered, road just outside of a busy city and find this. Nothing compares.

Miss peanut was just thrilled with all the orange and lemon trees she saw, as well as turkeys, peacocks, and COWs. She is still taking about gramma and papa's house, and of course all her cousins, and Aunts and Uncles! We had such a great time while we were there, we always wish it wasn't so long in between visits.

Officer and I even got out for a kid free evening thanks to Grandma and Aunt Shannon! As a belated Valentines Officer took me to see Wicked in San Fransisco - it only took a small amount of hinting. We rode BART down into the city which was quiet in the evening time, with only a few exceptions. We walked around near City Hall, observing some of the local flavor then we had gyros at this little Mediterranean place just off Market street near the theater, so yummy! Wicked - I won't spoil anything by discussing it, but the music, costumes, talent was really enjoyable! We both liked it; it's been a while since we've come from a movie or show and could say that we really liked it. We tend to have mediocre shows that pass through home most of the time, so to see a production that had been running in one place for more than a night or two was nice.

We did have a birthday party because there were lots of birthdays to celebrate in Officers family in February! I'll have to post those pictures later. The only other thing that officer really wanted to do while we were out there was to go hiking in valley around their property. It rained so much during the week while we were there so everything was muddy, but we put on our rain boots and took a long hike. We went to what the called as kids "the mossland" where boulders and trees are are just covered in green. There is a creek that runs through the area and we got distracted by trying to redirect the creek. We kind of felt like we were 10 years old again - moving debris that was clogging up the creek and stratigically placing boulders so that it would change the flow of the creek. It was fun! And we got back to the house just minutes before another big rainstorm hit. We really wish we could have hiked back to see the creek after all that rain, but we left to go home the next day. Our kids are troopers - it is such a long drive for them, but they did great!