Fun with Bugs

We learned about bugs this month in our little rotating preschool. March has been my month to teach and I have enjoyed every minute of it. It is especially great when you find out you taught your son something. Here was a recent conversation.

"Look mommy, honey."
"Who makes the honey?"
"Bees!"
Love those moments!!!

As part of our bug unit, we decided to go check out the butterfly museum. I'm not sure why three stay-at-home moms chose to go during spring break where it was crazy, but we had a lot fun anyways.

Can you imagine these cockroaches in your house??? My worst nightmare!

Spring

This is my favorite time of year in Houston. We have cool mornings, beautiful afternoons, and cool evenings. This weather only lasts a couple of months at most, so we are going to take advantage of it!

Here are my favorite parts of Spring:

1. We celebrate Dallin's and my birthday.

2. We play at the park or are outside non stop. When you have a two year old, full of energy boy, you crave outside time!

3. We can play outside without melting.

4. Flowers start blooming! All winter long (some of November through some of February for us) I just ignore my yard which actually is a nice break from how much time I do spend on my yard the rest of the year. I hate the dead, brown look and so try my best to plant flowers that can survive the cold and give me some color in my yard. Then I just wait out the winter to see what will happen to them. This year my bushes didn't survive our unusual cold season, but my pansies, petunias and snap dragons did. They are all starting to bloom and my hands have been itching to be outside in the dirt.

5. Busy season ends!!!! We are not quite there yet. Zane gets a little reprieve this week from busy hours but next week he will be auditing a new client and working the long hours again. The end is in sight though.

6. With the end of busy season, means daddy comes home before Dallin goes to bed and we get to play outside enjoying the longer day light hours and cool evenings.

Here's to spring!

Happy Birthday Dallin!

I wanted Dallin to know it was a special day from the moment he woke up, so I plugged in his new Mater game to blow up then got him out of bed. I got my camera ready just like Christmas morning to catch Dallin's face when he saw one of his favorite characters from Disney's Cars.

This is what I caught- Dallin running to the couch in fear.

All day long, Dallin was interested in Mater and wanted him turned on, but he wouldn't go near it. It wasn't until his cousins came over and were very excited about playing with it that Dallin finally went near him. Peer pressure...

Dallin got to go to Preschool on his birthday and wear a birthday crown.

Zane stayed up late the night before putting this trampoline together. It is a favorite toy right now. It really is for me though. I needed a way to get some energy out of Dallin on days we can't go outside. Now he jumps and loves it! I can also say, "We jump on the trampoline not the _________ (couch, bed, chairs...you name it and he will jump on it.)


Drew and Sam gave Dallin Mack which became the other favorite toy.


Opening presents

with a little help

Wearing their Lightning McQueen glasses with grandma and grandpa

Dallin's definition of heaven- help mom make the cake and frosting, be her taste tester, eat the cake and get ice cream! We went with a yummy spice cake this year.