Boy's Birthday

...all three of them.

Last year, around this time, I told the boys (Jacob and Joe) that the baby was due the day before their birthday, so there was a good chance that the baby would be born right on their birthday. "Wouldn't that be neat?"

"You mean," Jacob said, "that I might have to share my birthday?"

Um. (As my girls would say) "der da dur!"

Well, as it all turned out, Joshua was born nine days before. Still close enough to "share" a party. But he has changed his mind since then. As long as there's cake and presents...
And speaking of cake- there is a reason the picture of the cake is dark so you can't get a good look. I decided to be creative and make a lego cake. How hard can that be. Oh, they will be so excited when they see it! They watched me putting it together. "What is it? ...Oh, I know, it's a boat... Oh, it's a beach and that's the water... no... hey, it's a..."

"No, guys, it's a Lego."

They stood in silence, heads cocked, lip curled, trying to make it out. "Oh." is what I finally got and they turned and walked away completely unimpressed.

Next year, I'm just making cupcakes.

"Smile, Josh!"

Learning to be a boy

Spring is on it's way -oh, wait, it's here already, isn't it? Well, you wouldn't have know it today. We've been warm, cold, warm, cold...

Oh, I can't complain. It's only March, and we have had plenty of nice, crisp, refreshing days. Joshua went out to play in the snow this winter, um, once. So he is not yet much of an outdoors man. But he will get there. He went out with his brothers and it didn't take him long to figure out how to eat a little dirt, smash the bugs, and hit the ground with the shovel. We didn't actually pick up any dirt with the shovel, but like I said, he's still learning.

Naturally Sweet

March twenty-second..

Is my boy's birthday. Can I say "baby" anymore? Well, sure. As long as he's the youngest, he's still my baby.
He thoroughly enjoyed his birthday. He took a nice long nap, he played all day, and he was excused from all his schoolwork and chores. ;)
I had to work in the evening, but they made him a cake and dug into it after dinner. Tony sat a good sized piece in front of him, but he was a little confused because everyone was standing around him staring at him. When they began to sing Happy Birthday, he got a little bit excited...

(Photo by Tony- he can take a pretty good picture, too. Just don't tell him I said that)

It was also time for a haircut. All those curls were so cute, but he was getting to be a little scruffy looking. I took a lot off and it's still long. Don't worry, Grandma, I wont give him a buzz cut. At least not until summer.

Our day out...

We finally got over to Julia's for a visit. And what a gorgeous day for a get together. I can't begin to tell you just how perfect the afternoon turned out to be. The big girls, as usual, enjoyed each other's company, and playing a little catch in her big back yard.

The highlight of my day, of course, is when they brought out the ice cream.

I'm not sure what the name of this game was. Or even how it was played. But it looks like fun.

We were not lacking cute babies. Isn't he just the cutest thing you ever saw? ;)

Speaking of cute babies...

How is it possible that someone forgot to eat their ice cream?

Caleb looking for it's owner.

Now we're going to play a game. Let's see how observant you all are. Just look at the next photo and see if you can answer the following question...

Which baby is the Italian?

Actually, they were eating snow. As warm as it was, she still had a good deal of that yucky stuff on her deck. But it gave the little ones something to play with.

We followed Amy home (because I'm not so good at reading map quest directions backwards) then ended up stopping at her house for few more hours of fun.

Lunch anyone?

We're having peanut butter and jelly...

and a few Gracie germs on the side.