Ulrich Visit

This weekend we hosted a small get together for the TKE guys.  Chuck and Clare were visiting and staying with us for the night so we took advantage of the opportunity to get everyone together, which unfortunately doesn't happen very often these days!  It was great catching up with everyone and watching the kids play.  Too bad we can't do it more often!  Such is life.

March Madness

A few photos from March that didn't fit anywhere else.  Always so much fun with these boys!

No Music and All Play Today, Little Dude

We went to music class today to find that we were the only ones there for music due to the somewhat unexpected snow.  So instead of music, we joined the play class.  This was Logan's first organized play class and he had a great time.  Lots of children his age with lots of room to run, jump, climb and play.  Ms. Suzanne even put on some of the Irish/Celtic music that we should have listened to in music class.  His favorite part was popping the bubbles!

Comfy, Logan?

Are you comfy, Logan?

Relax a little, would ya, kid?

Spring Snow Play

Today was the best of both worlds for a kid...warm enough to play outside for a long time but still plenty of snow to play in.  We had the shovels and buckets out; we had chalk, bubbles and bikes out.  It was beautiful!  The boys stayed mostly dry in regular pants and rain boots and it was warm enough not to need heavy winter jackets.  Let's hope there are more of these days in our near future!



Evan was singing a cute little song about shoveling just before I took this video.  Unfortunately, he mostly stopped when I started recording.

Lead the Way Jake!

Our two little performers...costumes, singing and dancing...Love them!!

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Chuck E Cheese

Today we celebrated Danny's 7th and Sean's 4th birthdays at Chuck E Cheese with 30 of their friends.  It was our first Chuck E Cheese experience with the boys and while it was a bit of sensory overload from all the lights, noises, games, music, etc, we all had a great time.  Logan was happy to just sit on quite a few of the rides and even played a few games.  Evan tried out most of the games and liked the pirate one the best (so did Daddy!).  The birthday boys were running around all afternoon, having fun with their friends and cousins.  I don't think I even saw Sean until we had been there for at least 20 minutes!    After the party, we went back to Danny and Sean's house to watch them open their gifts.  It looked like Christmas all over again...lucky boys!  A fun day celebrating two very special little guys who are getting big really fast!  (Unfortunately, I didn't get a ton of photos of everyone but there are a few sprinkled in there.)

Early Spring in Boston

Spring is on it's way...At least according to the calendar!  And today it actually felt like it!  We spent much of the day outside in Boston with many others who are ready for spring to hurry up and get here.  We started at Thornton's for breakfast where we met Daddy's cousin Matt who was up from Philly for the weekend.  We hadn't seen him in 12 years and it was good to catch up for at least a little bit while he was visiting.  After breakfast, the boys ran around the Christian Science Plaza while we figured out what else we would do for the day.  We decided to keep it low key as it was already getting a bit late in the day.  We found a playground at Titus Sparrow Park where the boys had fun for quite a while.  We then headed to Harvard Square to visit the World's Only Curious George Store, which is really just a book store with a few unique George things, and then had lunch before heading home.  We spent a beautiful day in the city...something we certainly need to do more often!

Say Cheese!

Evan had his first school picture day today.  If you have been following our boys via Facebook you know that he decided to cut his own hair on Tuesday afternoon, less than 48 hours before picture day!  Here is the back story to that haircut.  Evan was supposed to be napping on Tuesday afternoon while I was in the basement getting a few things done on the computer.  I heard him upstairs playing, I heard the toilet flush and then it was quiet.  I figured he wasn't quite ready to nap, needed to use the bathroom and then settled down to sleep.  Boy, was I wrong!!  After using the bathroom and needing a new pull-up, Evan (using his step stool and potentially something else) got the hair cutting scissors down from the high shelf in the closet in the bathroom.  He "needed" them in order to open the new package of pull-ups, even though there were still pull-ups in the drawer in his closet (which I guess he didn't know were there).  After attempting to open the package, he proceeded to cut every piece of paper in his room that he could find and also his hair!  Now, keep in mind that we had cut his hair about 2 weeks ago in anticipation of picture day so that it wouldn't look "just cut".  He cut it so short in some places that in order to fix it we needed to do a super short buzz cut.  Good thing he is a boy and that we generally like it short.  All in all, no real harm done and his school pictures turned out adorable!

Everything Old is New Again

We've been doing a few old things that we haven't done in a while again lately...Gymboree open play for both Evan and Logan (the last time we went, Logan wasn't even crawling yet!), making meatballs from Evan's first High Five magazine last May, story & craft time at the Millbury Public Library (I don't think we'd been since August)...and the boys have been having lots of fun!

Red Sox Bat Boy

Logan gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "Red Sox Bat Boy".  

A better shot of the front of his costume

Not the best capture on video but I still like his strut at the beginning and his disrobing at the end
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