March 2014 Randoms

What a month! Visitors, a trip to El Paso, Spring Break, getting ready for Easter... it all flew by! Here are all the pictures that didn't make another post!

My shopping buddy! 

Our dear family friend Kathy joined us for dinner at Vivo- so wonderful to catch up!
 Trying to feed Ellie rice cereal (now that she is 4 months)... she isn't really grasping eating yet. Most of the food gets pushed right back out with her tongue! 
 Ellie got her first shades! So cute!!

 Evan helping me make muffins!
 We are LOVING our new trampoline! We jump every day the weather allows! Trampoline time is a bigger request than iPad time- this is huge!!! Thanks Gigi!!


  
  

 March 5...

Evan examining a bug on the trampoline... 
 We decided to make our own Friday night pizza.... I must say it turned out pretty delicious!

 These two!
 A birthday party for Duke at the Austin Zoo... 
  Rainy day so the animals came to us! This thing had his mouth taped shut... scary looking! But the boys were excited to touch him!





 Singing time...
 LJ LOVES how colorful his mouth gets and always asks to see it/ take pictures! 
 Evan is 'roaring' with his orange mouth!
 It was wet and sprinkling, but we still got a quick run of the Zoo (we pretty much had the place to ourselves!)... 
  
 Bike riding over the weekend... we need to practice much more often!
 Silly boys in the hamper...
Getting strong during her tummy time!
Ellie is out of the swaddle and into the sleep sack (but she has all of Evan's blue hand-me-downs!). 


 March 12.... picture taken at the El Paso airport right after landing! 

St. Patrick's Day outfit from Aunt Patsy!!! We love it!!!!

And St. Patrick's Day headband from Grandma to complete the outfit! Precious!

Batman goes to Target!

 Still the happiest little baby ever!

Ellie's new favorite noise - blowing raspberries!!! She does it all the time!!! 

 Sibling LOVE!!!

Love LJ's face! haha!  
 Batman! Every. Single. Day.


  March 23 ...

LJ asked me to take a picture of him with a bucket on his head... there you go LJ!
Went to drop off dinner and a bottle of wine at Joe's house on his birthday (couldn't go to dinner because he worked late, but wanted him to have some surprise when he got home)... and Ellie got to meet Harley! She loved him!! Cutest dog!


Five months, and she is sitting for over a minute without falling... Yay!


She loves sticking her tongue out at me lately! Hah!

March 26...
She rolled from her tummy to her back as I was trying to get a picture!! Yay Ellie!!! She has now rolled both ways, and she is sitting up several minutes at a time (I think 4 mins is our record!). 

We got bath coloring tablets for the boys... they are obsessed!! We are re-enforcing how to combine colors to make other colors... Here we mixed a yellow tablet with a blue tablet to have a green bath (you can see them mixing at the top of the water- right in the middle of the picture). Then Evan wanted more blue so it got a little dark!

Everyone is LJ's class at WHPP is now 4 years old, so to celebrate they had a pajama day, with popcorn (which they can now eat in school since they are all four years old- until now it has not been allowed as it is a choking hazard!). Of course, LJ insisted on wearing his fleece TMNT pjs with feet!


Saturday brunch at Vivo... Got to love the art in the background :) 
At not even a week after her 5 month bday, Ellie is sitting up for 4-5 minutes at a time! She's doing a great job- better every day! I am calling her a 'sitter' now!

The last weekend of the month we had 3 birthday parties... 

LJ sounded out and wrote this whole card to his friend Wilson by himself! (The 'G' next is him just showing me the difference between an 'O' and a 'G'... And he laughed at the long 'tail' he gave his s.... he gets a little side-tracked sometimes!)

LJ and Thomas having a blast at Wilson's party!
Sunday we had Blake's Pirate's and Princess Party at a park- which of course the boys were very excited to dress up for!! And Ellie even got her first 'tiara'!
 And then we headed to Bear and Lake's gymnastics party! Full morning!
  Boys playing a game... 

 They were the first ones out and had to sit in the middle! 

Lake and Bear at either end of the table... time to sing!
 We love parties! What a fun way to end the month (and Easter is a week from today)!!! 


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