Hint, hint.....

....Snow, we want you to melt away!  We're READY for spring (again!)

Mitchell learned this little ditty at his pre-school and LOVES to perform it :)  Apparently, he has grown to expect a laugh at the end because when we don't laugh, he tells us that he's going to do it again and we're expected to laugh afterwards. Now that makes me laugh!

In case you can't make out the words....

I'm a little snowman, short and fat

Here is my broomstick, here is my hat

When the sun comes out, I melt away

Down, down, down, down, Oops....I'm a puddle.

Maverick is WALKING

Well, it might've taken us 14 months to get there, but Maverick is finally walking :)  He has been walking here and there for weeks, but never consistenly enough that I considered him "walking"...but now he is!  We had a BBQ with our neighbors on Saturday night and I guess he decided he was tired of being the only crawler!

Here is our drunken penguin showing his stuff :)

SUPER BOYS and their Healthy Habits

I was changing Mav's diaper when Mitchell mentioned that he was hungry. He headed out to the kitchen and I found him sitting on the kitchen floor eating SPINACH by the handfull. Seriously?

Here's my other super boy brushing his teeth. Where did this toddler come from?

I snapped this quick picture of the boys before Maverick's nap time the other day. Mitchell likes to "help" me put Maverick down for a nap these days. Our superhero obsessed 3 year-old likes to refer to his little brother as his "sidekick" (like Robin to Batman).

Happy St. Patty's Day!

We had a great St. Patrick's Day and celebrated Kansas City style by heading to the midtown parade. The parade isn't necessarily known to be a "kids" parade, but I did a little research and found a fun children's area with bounce houses and balloon making clowns. The boys were in heaven!




Mitchell was a big fan of his balloons...all of them had popped by the time we got home. :(

We had a lot of talks about the fact that you get pinched if you don't wear green on St. Patrick's Day. Mitchell even had to call Grandma to make sure she was wearing green so that she didn't get pinched. :)

Mitchell woke up before Jacob left for work, and Mitchell didn't have green on yet, so Jacob chased him around the house and pinched (tickled) him. Mitchell must've liked it, because while we were on the way to the parade he said "I think I don't want to wear green because it seems fun to be pinched." Ha!

Mitchell also mentioned multiple times that "Patrick" is also the name of Spounge Bob Square Pant's friend (the starfish). I assured him that was NOT what we were celebrating! :)

We ended the day with a "driveway party" (yes, we have them often enough that we've named them) with our neighbors.  Have we mentioned that we love our neighbors?  The kids even ate dinner in the driveway....here they are having a screaming match.

Shawnee St. Patty's Day Parade

My family was in a St. Patty's Day parade years and YEARS ago. We dressed as clowns! I still remember that I wore my dad's big work shoes and my feet hurt SO bad by the end of the route! Despite my feet, it is a FUN memory that is etched in my brain. I've been dreaming up a way to talk people into doing a float for our local Shawnee parades.

I succeeded in talking our neighbors into having a Team Lucy float in this year's St. Patty's Day parade! We used it as a way to help promote an upcoming CureSearch walk.

Click here to see NBC's coverage.

Our float was a train that the neighborhood kids all rode on. Lucy's nickname was "Goose"....Lucy Goosey, so our train was decked out in geese!

Mitchell had a blast riding along and waving to the patrons.

I'm not sure Maverick's first experience participating in a parade will be quite as memorable as mine :) He snoozed through the whole event in a stroller that I pushed tailing the train.

At the end of the parade, they vote on the best floats and we WON the prize for the best children's float! Yeah!

I'm hoping we can make this an annual event!

We just returned from a trip to Wisconsin for Kelli's bridal showers!  Jacob rode up with us and spent the weekend with us at my Mom & David's, but we left him there to work and the boys and I headed back today.

They were AMAZING in the car!  In fact, I set a new record (with boys) of making it home in 8 hours.  It was a long drive, but worth the trip as you'll see below :)

Mark's family threw a very nice Mexican themed shower for Kel on Saturday, complete with a sombrero veil.

The term "shower" was a bit confusing to Mitchell....he said "you don't need directions to the shower, it's at our house." :)

Mitchell and Maverick were the only boys at the shower, which obviously didn't bother them one bit.

Here's a photo of the shower attendees that are in the wedding party

L to R - Anna (flower girl, Dana's daughter), Dana (bridesmaid, Mark's sister), Kelly (bridesmaid, Mark's sister), Kelli, Me (Matron of honor), Mitchell (ring bearer)

I'm not sure if you can make out Mitchell's face, but the more we told him to smile the more he purposely frowned.  Oh, wedding pics should be interesting.

Grandma was all to happy to have some boy time this weekend.

Little Mav couldn't make it through the whole shower without a snoozer.

Here's a really short video of a fun little game we played at the shower.  In order to get a prize, you first had to do a little mexican hat dance :)

On Sunday, Kel's girlfriends threw another shower for her at my Mom's house.  Here she is with the hostesses (L to R - Kel, Emily, Nicole & Erika)

Mitchell watched "The Wizard of Oz" during the shower, while Maverick enjoyed helping Aunt Kel open her presents.

(Side note: He's STILL not officially walking, but is getting pretty darn close!  Here he is standing unassisted.  Maybe he'll be walking by the wedding - April 30)

Mother Nature is making it hard on Kel and Mark.  Due to record snowfalls this year, the wedding venue they chose is predicted to be underwater on their wedding day. :(  They have finally found replacement wedding and reception venues, but invitations have already been mailed...so updated ones are to come.  It has been interesting to say the least! 

Look at Frosty Go!

Now you see it...







...three days later, you don't.

Bring on SpRiNg!