Best St. Patrick's Day Ever

St. Patty's Day was 79 degrees for us, so we decided to go spend some time at the park. We were enjoying the beautiful weather (Q was on Spring Break) and Darren was planning on meeting us for lunch. He surprised us and pulled up on the motorcycle with his shorts and tennis bag on. One of his meetings got changed to the morning, so he had taken the rest of the afternoon off! He was able to play with the boys at the park and then we got some subway sandwiches and went to the tennis courts and had a little picnic lunch and played tennis as a family. We all got sunburned, but it was fun to feel the warmth of the sun again. We came home and got the motorbike out and rode around the house on it and the boys played soccer. It was a very good day, one that we'll remember for a long time. Thanks Darren!

"Hey Dad, watch me climb!"

"Are you still watchin'?"

(Darren runs off to play with Quincy)

"Yay, I did it Dad! Did you see me?!"

"Where'd he go?"

"Huh?"

Goin' Fishin'

Here's a little fishing adventure we took as a family a few weeks ago. Thankfully we have a little pond only 2 miles from our house, so we didn't have to go far. The boys loved it and I'm sure we'll have to do more of this as it gets warmer.

Angel Baby

Stratty takin' a little nap.

Happy Meals

The Faker

We have a little actor in our Stratty man. Either that or he's just really, really lazy. He wallows on the ground and says, "I caaaant get up . . . Help meeeeeee." Then if we ignore him (as we usually do) he finally pulls himself up to his feet, when it's clear that he's got plenty of energy. Here's the sequence below . . .

Outside

Got warm enough the other day for the boys to play outside for a while. 70 degrees next week!!!!!!!

Quincy

Here's a scraggly haired Q-ball.

Piano Man

Darren has been the master blogger lately, so I decided I better get my act together. Well, we finally found the perfect piano. Darren called into a little radio show here in our town called, "Buy, Sell, and Trade" and they put him right on the air and he said we were looking to buy a piano. So a few minutes later we got a call from a lady selling their piano. We are so excited. And best of all, it's old and has lots of chipped keys, so we barely noticed that Stratt has already chipped about 20 more keys . . . okay we noticed and we were really mad, but that's why you get a super old piano with a 2 year old in the house, right? It has been so fun to have a piano around and it still sounds really great even though it hasn't been tuned for 8 years! Quincy is loving learning to play and finally can play Yankee Doodle, his new favorite song. He enjoys teaching Stratt some piano skills too.

Block This

I think this is the last time Quincy asks Melanie to "block" anything...


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