bday at school

KC had a really fun birthday celebration at school.  It happened to fall on the day the firefighters came to visit.  Thanks to the fun birthday boy sticker from his teacher they knew it was his birthday so they gave him the first chance to jump into the truck and even hold the big ax for the picture.  He was very excited to share the "dragon egg" rice krispy treats we made to share for snack.  He loves the happy birthday song just as much this year as he did last year.  

spring fling

These future raccoons were pretty pumped to visit the spring fling event at the local elementary school. The event was pushed inside by the sleet and snow, but it was fun to play inside the school!  We were happy to see some familiar faces and feel like we are becoming part of the neighborhood community.

captain abearica

Kicking off KC's birthday week with a trip to Build A Bear where both bunny brothers were super excited by the superhero line of tiny duds.  Captain Abearica came home with a very happy almost three year old!  

easter bunny

The new bunny was a major improvement over sad bunny of years past.  However, the wicker bench and trellis was replaced by the inexplicable faux grass pillows, hot pink bench, fake rocks and very fake flowers?!  Way to kitsch it up Fair Oaks!  We pulled out the matchy match again just to match the kitsch.  And blue pants = simple JOY!

tidbits

-- Thanks to Super Pat and Erin Go Bragh for the fun new book! - Aiden set the story to "dramatic music" for Super Pat's fan club site - teehee

-- My new keys and tablet are all up and running - My first wedding edit had Donald Trump as a guest!  Ha!

-- This has got to be the last of the snow on March 26!  It got icey pretty quickly so no spring snow men.  There were flowers buried under that snow!

--We got a new hybrid Roland piano for this guy who is really keeping up with his piano!  Getting geared up with pedals and real hammer action now!

--These Outshine popsicles made from veggies are really good (and the boys have no idea they are made from veggies).

--Visiting the school Aiden will attend for first grade and getting a chance to hear about the lunch room (highlight was a copy of the menu!), meet a great 1/2 mixed grade teacher, and play on the playground.

sugar mama

We visited a new ice cream shop that has really yummy hard ice cream (which really reminded me of the Scooters batches I used to scoop up in the summer).  Aiden is excited to enter the tshirt contest for a year's supply of ice cream.  So with his art direction we created these two options - wish us luck!

iron men

The comic book shop stop before going to the grocery and the movies on a grey weekend afternoon.  They brightened these guys day by giving them iron man masks.  

path

Sometimes it's just as simple as taking that path you pass by every day... We probably meandered twice the distance of the path thanks to Keaton's running back and forth, but it's all good.  We made it to some swings (boys favorite) and then some brunch (Mom's favorite) after checking out all the furry friend real estate.

two and a half

My littlest buddy up to last October... Two and a half years! I wake up lately and my very first thought is how is it possible that Keaton is almost 3?! It makes me the most unique blend of happy and sad.  Same with this video:

Keaton 18-30 months - Happy 2.5! from LB on Vimeo.
Music is JJ Heller again - When I'm With You

popsicles

Spring brought on a new batch of Popsicles, which we could unfortunately keep frozen outside right now.  Here's how Keaton feels about that:

We will see if we get some spring sledding in tomorrow?!

huggies

These running hug guys!  

Good days are good.

experiment

The new watering can was decorated and then inspired a carefully recorded experiment.  When the snow melted there was only a small amount of water left!  Now he wants to come up with "more interesting things to experiment with..."

one and a half

It's Throwback Thursday, right?!  I must be feeling sentimental lately as Keaton's third birthday quickly approaches. I was frenzied searching for the half birthday videos that I never made! What a sham and I didn't even remember not making them - second baby syndrome I suppose, even though I try to avoid it. So I figured, I still have the video snippets, why not make one now!? Better late than never and he will still like seeing it in this time capsule of sorts twenty years from now, right?
 
Keaton six to eighteen months - Happy Half Birthday! from LB on Vimeo.
Song is by JJ Heller - I Get to Be the One

And here is Aiden's six to eighteen months for the true sentimental folks out there:
Happy Half Birthday! from LB on Vimeo.

I owe Keaton his two and a half year old video too ;) - Coming soon...
I did do his first six months on time ;)
http://ababybrennan.blogspot.com/2011/10/half-eve.html

brothers

Love these guys!

knock knock

Lotsa playing, sledding and knock knock jokes today...

happy snow patrick's day

We woke up to about eight inches of snow that some sneaky leprechaun must have been excited about - because he wrote ha, ha, ha all over the snow drifts!  He left green magic milk and sneakily peed green in our toilets!  Mr. Lucky got some new mustache/goatee glasses depending on who is wearing them.  There was a giant coded note left that turned out to be the lyrics to What Does the Fox Say - because of course that is a leprechaun's favorite song!  There is a snow day (everything including the federal government and even J's flight to sunny Toronto was cancelled).  More lazy day shenanigans in store...

slippy

swingers

tidbits

More bits of tid - first a quick commercial break - Our house is missing a 12 inch around plastic mixing bowl full of softened butter!  Seriously, this is such a mystery, and I have a feeling this story will go down as a family legend.  I was planning to make banana bread, so I unwrapped the butter (wrappers in the trash so this is for sure - I did check because after looking for over an hour I thought I was losing my mind), put it in the big blue mixing bowl on the counter, and then went on a FaceTime call with our recently returned from Down Under Grands. (Yay!)  At some point, Keaton must have bounced into the kitchen and swiped the bowl and hid it... Or as he claims a man came in and took it and left with it in his police car... But he has led me on many wild goose chases, I attempted to give him an early Easter present as incentive to help uncover the hidden bowl, and my conclusion is that he doesn't remember where he put it.  I'd recently tidied up for J's jam session with a buddy and I swear this place is actually not full of many places a bowl full of butter could hide!  This is just totally bewildering! 

Update:  Crazy Mom!  Put it in the microwave!!!!  No one thought to look there, but we did look in the washer dryer and the fire place - nutso central over here!

Left side: The best $5 I've ever spent on a complete (all but one piece!) $99 Life on Mars Lego set with a hangar and tubes the aliens zip around in (Man tua Moms club for the win!).  Right top: Close approach on the storytime bubble machine.  Right bottom: This kid wants to cut for days and I'm getting better about trusting him with the scissors.

Top: Pi day drawing with Pi symbol skirt and Super Pi and his sidekick made another appearance to dance to Pi songs.  Bottom: L: flattening out the garden R: smiles on a new couch cover - so stretchy and awesome refresher

Top: Daddy got to enjoy the special invitation to Aiden's Parent Breakfast (no siblings allowed) Bottom: L: Balloon animals helped with our PB Jacks reunion - it had been over a month!  R: Extra special waffle cone treat

pi day grooves

Super Pi and his sidekick do some serious circle grooves to celebrate the 3.14.14!!