Celebration #3: Family & Friends at Home

The celebrating continued when we had dinner at one of Grant's favorite places, Bull City Burgers.
 

...and then came home to open up and hit some new golf balls...
 

...and Charlie stopped by with some cupcakes for more sugary good times.

 

Celebration #2: Airport Birthday

The RDU airport playground has been high on Grant's list of places he's been wanting to visit, so to celebrate on his actual birthday, we met up with some of our friends for playtime, plane watching, and lunch at the airport cafe.
 

The playground has a mini-runway for kids to pretend like they are airplanes.  The observation tower is on the left and the real runway is in the background.
 

 

The airport cafe overlooks the private jet area, so the kids get to see tons of planes.
 

All of the boys were fascinated.
 

Jumping with joy:
 

A miracle: All four were actually looking towards the camera! (Grant is making binoculars.)
 

Celebration #1: Birthday Popsicles at School...oh yeah, and a dress...

For the first of a big weekend full of celebrating, I offered to bring a birhtday treat in for Grant's class.  He chose popsicles, and so Hayes and I came to school with popsicles and Toy Story napkins, and this is what we found...

Apparently, Grant is quite fond of wearing this dress at school while playing with trucks.  He returned the frill-laden dress to its bin, and we all headed outside for popsicles...

 

 

Here's our attempt at getting a class picture:

Next time I'll make sure to do it before the kids have started lining up in anticipation of heading towards the playground... 

 

NCSU Farm Days

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Family Photo

A family photo at Grant's buddy Luke's Seuss-themed birthday party

Grant celebrating--all of the boys thought they were Wii bowling, but really one of the dads was standing behind them with the active controller.

Popsicle Course

Grant came home from school talking all about Popsicle Courses.  After a brief discussion, I finally realized he was talking about doing an Obstacle Course.  I didn't have much in the way of obstacles available, so we improvised and made one out of chalk (which you might be able to see if you look closely in this picture).

 

National Zoo

Kyle's cousins from Texas were spending their spring break doing DC adventures, so we headed north for the weekend to join them at the National Zoo.

Nice ground hog photo op below.  All three of the 'big' cousins are in the shot.  Can you see their pupils?

Lion watching:
 

Tiger watching:

Same kids from the ground hog shot, but this time you can actually see them!
 

Who's watching who?
 

Our first panda bear sighting, but all Grant could think about was ditching his empty juice box and looking for more pandas:
 

This cheetah hunted down the dead rabbit like it was his job:
 

Grant does love hand holding at the zoo!
 

Sleeping on the drive home while waiting for a phone call:
 

Watch out for that dinosaur!

Grant and Charlie at the Museum of Life and Science
 

Look who's climbing

A whole new world opened up for Hayes at Chick Fil A today...he made his first climb up into the play structure.  I had to go in and help him down the slide, so I snagged this photo of him while I was there.
 

Big Boy Room, Part 2

After only a year, we realized Grant's Big Boy room was going to need some changes.  We plan to let the brothers share a room when Hayes is out of the crib, so we needed to switch out Grant's full size bed for two twins.  We weren't sure we could get him to agree to the trade until he out of the blue started asking for a Buzz Lightyear bed.  We knew we'd need new bedding anyway, so we decided to pounce on that request.  (For the record, I thought that with having two boys, I'd be off the hook when it comes to Disney.  No princesses for us, right?  But oh how wrong I was to think that Disney is just princesses!  We're becoming quite the Disney Store around here, but how can I resist with that little smile?!)  So as you can see, Grant was quite pleased about the changes...

Still have to figure out the bedskirts, but then we'll be all done (again)!

Baseball Bull

Fan Fest Day at the Durham Ball Park...Grant is still wary of the furry mascot, but he was ready to sit with the plastic one on the bench, so at least we're making progress