Haircut.

I finally gave in and took Nate to get a haircut. I took him to Great Clips, huge leap of faith on a $5.99 haircut special. One previous salon charged me $20 for Nate and the most recent trip to a barber was an absolute mess. So I figured, why not..the last debacle grew back! Nate acted wonderfully. He sat still and turned his head like she asked. I was nervous the whole time and pretty much a backseat driver through most of the haircut. The woman did a good job and Nate was really proud of himself. It's still on the longer side. I just couldn't let them give him a crew cut, his hair is too pretty. When Nate hopped up, he looked in the mirror and said, "Dad is going to be SO happy!" We will probably go back. Maybe Liam will get his haircut..I'm not sure I'm ready for all that yet. I don't like crying in front of strangers. We will probably wait for Rhonda on that one. Now getting a decent picture of his new haircut is a different story!

Also, we went to Chic-Fil-A after the haircut for ice cream. Liam finally managed to climb all the way up and through the playground and down the slide all by himself! He was quite proud of himself. 

Happy Earth Day!

The boys and I went to a butterfly exhibit. One of our friends from the mommy group joined us. It was very pretty and the kids had a blast. Nate actually caught a few on his butterfly "landing pad." Liam almost said "butterfly!" Nate freaked out a little when a butterfly would land on him and start crawling towards his face. It was hilarious. We also saw a bunch of very impressive bonsai trees. I'm actually not sure if they were bonsai trees, they were way too awesome. We also got a dogwood tree sapling! I'm so excited! So here are some pictures of our beautiful day!

Kings Island.

Yay! Kings Island finally opened for the season! Nate was very excited and Liam was underwhelmed the whole time until he got to ride the train and carousel. Nate took Liam to meet Snoopy and poor Liam jumped out of his skin when he saw that Snoopy moved. But he got over it and had a good time hitting Snoopy on the nose. Nate even walked the whole time. We stayed pretty late and got to watch the fireworks. And then went to get a frosty. It's only a ten minute drive home, but Liam was passed out. I changed his diaper and put him in pjs without him waking up. A day full of fun. 

Dentist.

Nate went to the dentist for the first time this morning. Yes, I'm a bad mom for waiting this long. Sue me. Anyway, thankfully we found a wonderful pediatric dentist. The office was wonderful, happy and all about kids. They showed Nate all the tools and let him use the sucker to suck up water out of his hand and all that. He didn't fuss at all and even let the lady floss. It was perfect. He was super excited and got to pick out a prize. He went with a classic, wind up chattering teeth. Mitch and I were so proud. And Nate has awesome teeth, twenty of them. They counted, twice. ;)

Liam just hung out and watched with a friend he met in the waiting room. 

Yay, zoo day!

The weather was beautiful today--cooler, partly cloudy, and little sprinkles every now and then. Well, beautiful weather for the zoo. Something about rain seems to make the animals more active and the overcast means I didn't have to lather the kids up with sunblock. Nate was reading a book about the zoo this morning and asked if we could go and since we have a season pass (thanks mom), we headed to the zoo as soon as Liam woke up from his nap. The tulips were all in bloom and gorgeous. Nate and his friend Rylee walked the whole time without getting too hot. There was hardly anyone there so we took our time with the animals and talked to their keepers. They put giraffes on birth control! Weird. It was a very nice shorter two hour trip, but it's nice to NOT have to spend the entire day there to get your money's worth. I think we'll go back tomorrow. ;)

Hope everyone is enjoying the nice weather. 

We're back.

I've decided to come back to the blog. I deleted my Facebook years ago and Instagram just joined it in the digital wasteland. I suppose this is the best way for us to connect to everyone without eventually being bombarded by friends that want you to buy the newest beauty product from them. Irritating. And this way there is some depth to the pictures posted, memorable things the kids say and do, blah blah. Call me sentimental. 

So, the good weather has finally come. The boys play outside from sun up to sun down. They eat their meals outside and hang out with Mufasa. 

We are eagerly waiting to plant our vegetables that Nate and I planted awhile back, from seeds! We have to build our raised beds next weekend and the plants will go in by the end of April! Yippee. We planted so much stuff. We don't know what will grow well, but we've armed ourselves with a journal to take notes for next year. 

Mitch still works second shift and is busy, busy. But hopefully things will slow down during the warm months. He's as excited as the kids about King's Island opening this month. That's one of the nice things about 2nd shift, he can go early to the fun stuff when hardly anyone is there. Our children will think that amusement parks are an ordinary part of life. It's ridiculous.  Well, that's pretty much all we have going on these days. I'll definitely be posting a lot of gardening pictures and the kids riding on carousels this summer. We love and miss y'all. Come visit us!