Marchy March

I'm now realizing how much we've done so far this month and it's not even over yet! 

Sorry, but there are LOTS of pics to follow.

The coolest McDonalds ever. 

 Matt had to take Step 3 of the boards (a very expensive and intense 2-day test). The day of Luke was up SO early. Maybe he was feeling the nerves too.

 A fun day at a gymnastics place with HSSA.

 Sorry for the blurry pics. My kids LOVED it. Especially Luke. For days after he kept asking if he could join a class there or "try out for the boys class." 

 Celebration dinner after Matt finished boards!!! 

Bspot...SO GOOD!

 Remember Dev's music class? During it they do a "lay and listen" time, where they're suppose to just lay on the floor with their eyes closed and use their ears to listen to some classical music. I can't get over how cute Devin is during it and that he actually does what the teacher tells him to do for the whole song. Even when he snuggles up to other people feet. 

 Dev is constantly (and I mean constantly) playing with marbles. He is obsessed. Luke however, thought it was a good idea to put two in his mouth....why?!!! And he accidentally swallowed one. TMI: It took 6 days to finally come out. Boys!!! It completely freaked him out and every prayer he prayed for "the marble in his tummy."

Other March news! I opened my Etsy shop, Post & Twine. 

I had it open for almost 2 weeks (had to go on vacation in between) and have had 6 sales! Woot woot.

 Remember this little guys sneaky eating problem?.....Caught red-handed!

 What is Devin doing?

 Trying to walk more and more these days, even when it's FREEZING!

This day we had Eytan our little babysat friend.

 As we were going I checked on him and noticed Devin's little arm through the stroller helping him hold the bottom on his bottle. It was so sweet!

 A RS activity. We had a marriage panel and two classes, one on parenting and one on FHE. At the end we had a sample of desserts with recipes that could be used as treats for FHE. They were DELICIOUS!

The recipes are listed here, if you're interested!

 We went to Playground World with a wife (of a spouse) from Matt's program, Anna and her baby Corban. After we had lunch at Chick-fil-a. The boys thought it was a holiday, they were having so much fun. 

My cute boys love to use the umbrella and even though sometimes it annoys me (because it takes them forever or they almost break it), it's pretty cute. 

 Daddy is almost always busy with work...but when he's home the boys go nuts. The following pics are blurry, but I thought it was cute to remember how much fun Daddy is even when he's running on 2 hours of sleep.

 Luke's recent obsession with the states.

Soaking up any time we can outside when it's barely warm enough.

 Devin is my little buddy at most of my Dr. appts and since Luke can't come usually (he's at preschool) he always asks me to take a pic of Matt for him. 

This was Dev being silly while we waited for Matt.

There's the doc! Matt also sent him this pic of him going into surgery. 

 Eytan. We babysit him about 5-6 hours per week. His mom works with Matt, as a Uro-gyn Fellow. I call him "Hair." His parents are French Canadian and they are Jewish. For some reason they don't cut their boys hair until they are 3 and these boys (he has an older brother) have beautiful, but out-of-control hair. 

Could be the closest I ever get to having a girl! ;)

 See's Candies opened up at our Mall, apparently it's a West Coast store, so everyone here was ecstatic  We went with some friends to the grand opening and scored on a bunch of free candy.

And spent the rest of the time playing at the Lego store.

Little boy heaven.

It was such a good Friday, because that night Matt and I went on a special date for our SIXTH anniversary!

Which was technically the following day, but of course Matt was on a 30 hr shift. 

We did the whole shabang at The Melting Pot. It was fun and good, and it took forever! Almost a 3 hour event. Next time we'll just stick with the cheese and chocolate courses. It was really fun though!

So thankful to be married to such a great guy. Love you Matt!! 

The next morning I looked like this, after all that candy, cheese and chocolate fondue. ;)

Pregnancy looks good on me, right?

 The next day we joined some of our other friends who were Daddy-less that day (oh, residency!) and enjoyed the warmish sun out at Patterson's Fruit Farm to play and of course eat the Worlds Best donuts! 

Oh how I am going to miss this place so much when we move.

 Boys rule!

They are a 3 boy family...just like we will be!

Lunch with a headlamp.

 It was so warm for 2 days. Everyone LOVED it.
Matt was being a wimp with his beanie...it was like 65 degrees!

 We came home from church and the boys had lunch outside and we played out there for 6 hours! After Daddy finally woke up (post-call) we walked to the park. Talk about spring fever!

The next day we jumped on an airplane to Texas!!!

That's up next!

Rest of Feb

Just random photos from the last part of February.

Mid-day tub time.

  Pardon the crack....I just noticed that. It's MUCH smaller on my phone. :)

Loosing it in the car because this boy has given up naps.

Mario before bed and Mario first thing in the morning. 

I wasn't feeling great....and this is how the boys "made me feel better."

This is probably some of my favorite pics of Devin. 

We had these tiny toy guns from Luke's pinata and Matt discovered that they were actually squirt guns. 

Devin was thrilled!

A few of me and my friends found this place where you can rent a small room and do karaoke by the hour.

I was hesitant at first...but it was a BLAST! Sadly the place is closing. 

And there are 3 preggos in this pic...but 4 babies! Lady in pink is having twins! 

Glad it's not me. :)

Dev's devastation when he realized his "friend" (a baby we babysit) left during his nap.

Devin started this cute music class while Luke is at preschool. He loves it. 

Devin is frequently found sitting on the floor with food...this time it was a bag of shredded cheese. Yay for independence! 

On to March...

Happy St. Patty's Day

St. Patty's Day was a very simple celebration at our house this year. No green pancakes, eggs and milk, not even Lucky Charms in green milk for breakfast. People in Cleveland seem to go all out for this holiday. Houses are decked out throughout the month of March. I didn't even really know until I moved to Cleveland that corned beef, Ruben sandwiches, hash...it's all St. Patty's food. I'm sure all the drinking related to the holiday has nothing to do with it. ;) Maybe next year will be our first and final Cleveland St. Patty's celebration (minus a visit to the local pub).

We spent a week in Texas and LOOOOVED every minute of it. We got back late in the afternoon on Sunday (St. Patrick's Day). Little did we know that while we were gone a little leprechaun sneaked into our house and played a few silly tricks on us. Luke thought it was pretty awesome. 

He also left this little note (Luke has me read it over and over again).

 He was so excited he tried so hard to wake Devin up to see the little mess...but he was out cold.

 The leprechaun put our chairs in funny places, knocked pictures over, turned our clock around...you get the idea. 

Dev pretty much never falls asleep anywhere but his bed. He had a hard time waking up and adjusting back to life in Cleveland. 

 And I think we were both depressed to go from this to this....

Also...now that we're back Devin has a little growing up to do. Starting with that darn binki, then the potty and then sharing a room with Luke. We cut off the tip of his binki last night and it was like someone died. TOTAL devastation. He just held it in his hand all night, but didn't use it and he eventually went to sleep. Tonight we'll trim it a little more. All he could say was, "ohhh my binki!!! It's browken!!!!!"

Sorry baby boy. 

My Little Devin

Occasionally, I pull out my real camera...and I want to do it more often (it's just so darn big!), to catch some pretty pics of my handsome boys.

Little Devin is still little to me. :)

He is growing so fast and will seem even bigger when baby boy arrives, but I want to remember his sweet, little personality while he's still two.

From my experience, two's haven't been too terrible (it's the three's that I think are hard!). 

Devin is quite a hilarious little guy. He says some of the funniest things.

Lately, he's been referring to Luke as "big buddy." And calls him buddy more than he calls him Luke.

He also says things like, " Come on boys!!" (that's including me) and "excuse me sir," and "I'm just joking!"

He often thinks he's Spider-man and shoots webs out of his wrists. Or thinks he's a super hero, or super doggy. He pretends hes a dog or cat often too, and licks everything he can. 

He also likes to be a ninja and has some pretty sweet skills. 

Some days he is a robot too.

He is a bit of a stinker (what 2 year-old isn't?) and has quite the funny attitude about it.

He is very sweet though, and sensitive. 

He loves to play with his animals, marbles, superheros, cars, trains.

He loves to snuggle with his blanket (the one and only).

 And he has some pretty sweet bouncing skills too...I don't know why, but it's one of the funniest things when we're just sitting quietly in the living room and this kid comes bouncing across the room on his ball, with a sword in one hand, screaming "yeehaw!!"

 Love that face.

And those eyes!

 And he LOVES his big brother, even though they fight just as often as most siblings do too.

He'll wake up crying in the middle of the night and cry for Luke.

Oh how we love our little Devin!