Weekend in Review

Lonely North Dakota

New jammies!



Treasures from the garden



"New" wheels from Mac & Jack

Bedtime Stories

P.S.  Thanks, Lizzie! :) 

Terrific Twos

William Thomas is now 2!  We had a great time celebrating his birthday last weekend.  Colin is so lucky to have him as a best bud!



At least the birthday boy is happy!




Check out Colin eyeing that candle.  Exactly whose birthday is it?!




"All of these presents are for you!"




The best gift.  They could've played catch & chase for hours.



Randomness

Thoughts from this week:

Can it be spring all year long?  There is nothing better than picking up a toddler from daycare who is exhausted; played-so-hard-outside-all-day kind of exhausted.

We celebrated the graduate on Monday and today is the last day of grad school.  He will now require all to refer to him as John Holt, MS-C.

Two tidbits on the homeless man we've driven by every day this week. 1) His sign reads, "Embarest but hungry.  No money but big heart.  Please help."  2) Colin asked why the man was standing there so I did my best to explain.  The next day we saw the man and Colin very quietly told me, "Momma, no he has money.  No house.  He really sad."  Amazing.

It's Week of the Young Child so daycare has dress-up days all week.  One of Colin's teachers reported that he was very excited to "go to my beach" yesterday after changing into his swim trunks for hawaiian beach day.  Today was wacky hair day.  Any guesses who styled his hair? 

I stole this off of my brother's Facebook page.  Love it!

...Baker's Man...

...Bake me [some bars] as fast as you can.



CJ and I made M&M Peanut Butter Bars last night.  He was such a wonderful helper - stirring up the batter was his favorite part.  Of course we were too busy licking up the leftover peanut butter and eating M&M's that I didn't get a picture of the messy-face-in-action. 

As much as I'm looking forward to having a full-time husband back in two weeks, I'm going to miss our Colin and momma nights.

Easter

Last weekend we celebrated Easter with Grandma and Grandpa Rau.  It was Colin's third Easter holiday but his first time dyeing eggs.  He was pretty intrigued with the fizzle in each cup while the tablet dissolved but that's about it.  But who can blame him?  I still get antsy waiting for the eggs to turn vibrant colors.  

The Easter bunny hid eggs and baskets of goodies around the house while we were at church.  Of course the ones with chocolate had to be eaten right away.  :)



Finding his basket





Enlisting G&G's help



Wordless Wednesday