March Madness

Marsh Madness is having a little bit of March Madness!  This month is always a crazy one for us, so I haven’t had much time to post about all of our happenings this month, so here is what we’ve been up to besides being sick and celebrating birthdays!

March 8th Mommy & Daddy celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary!  We went away for the night and stayed in the hotel we had our wedding reception at.  It was nice being out alone but not too far from home.  We enjoyed our time together reminiscing about all of the years we spent together that led up to us getting married and having two beautiful children.  My friend Emily posted old pictures of her & her husband Brad on their anniversary and I thought they were so cute to see, so I’m going to follow suit and dig up some old ones :)  We were 17 & 20 when we started dating.

 

 

Okay fast forward back to March 2012!  Maisy has been trying lots of new foods this month, including Mac & Cheese which she loves!

She has also moved out of her bath seat in the bath tub!  She loves all of her new found freedom, although she gets yelled at about 25 times to “sit on your butt in the bathtub!”  Well make that 50 because every time I correct her Ryder takes it upon himself to be the re-enforcer!  They got these new body paint/soaps so here Ryder is “making my baby sister beautiful!” as Maisy chews the lid.

In the evenings we’ve been taking the kids out in the neighborhood to do fun things like fly kites and go fishing.  Okay well Daddy takes Ryder, Me & Maisy just come along for the ride and the photos!

 

We’ve learned that Maisy doesn’t like crawling in the grass…so she does this interesting move!  (oh that little butt in polka dot booty shorts…can she get any cuter?!)

 

It’s a little crazy that the kids were in shorts and t-shirts on Friday, then by Sunday they were back in sweatshirts and hats!

They finally got the kites flying though, although as soon as Ryder was allowed to hold his by himself “the wind stole it out of my hand” as he explained. The power lines caught it and it stayed up in the sky flying high with Daddy & Uncle G’s.  Of course they didn’t think theirs was high enough, so they had to rig up some concoction to make it better!  Yes, they tied it to a fishing pole and cast it further into the sky…

    

Even Maisy got a turn flying…they never leave their baby girl out.

Ryder got a cowboy hat and cowboy boots from Paw-Paw & Aunt Megan for his Birthday. 

 

He has been starting to yell “No Pictures!” at me now, as if I’m the paparazzi and he’s a celebrity!  So what does Daddy tell him “just show her your monster!” and this would be the next picture I snap!  My goodness these boys, this is the first smile picture I’ve gotten from him in months!

He is quite the cowboy these days “and a real country music singer” as he’d like to add!  Here he is tonight in his pajamas, walking around singing songs on his tablet.

We had a dinner date at CJ & Angela’s one night, which always works out perfect because we each have a friend!  Here are Ryder & Carter Spider Man/Hulk & Wolverine (sorry!).

Maisy & Callie are finally able to be up and playing together!

Okay I think that’s all the pictures I have, but I’m not done with the updates!

As you know, Ryder didn’t get his Botox procedure done as planned, and as I’m sure you see, he doesn’t have a cast on his arm!  All of the things we thought we had planned for March have now been moved to May.  I think both things getting pushed back was probably a blessing.  We had so much going on with his Birthday that I’m glad he got to just have a fun month instead of a frustrating one!  Speaking of, he got SO much awesome stuff for his Birthday.  Before we let him bring anything inside though we told him he had to fill up that huge box his kitchen came in with toys he wanted to give away.  He suddenly had no problem and became very generous!  We’ve been having a blast playing with all the new toys, he’s one lucky little guy that’s for sure.

One HUGE announcement is that ever since his actual birthday on Monday he has been in big boy underwear!  No more pull-ups (except when he’s sleeping) and he’s been doing very well!  He has had a few accidents but nothing terrible, so I’m glad we made the leap, no looking back now. 

Ryder had his 3 yr check-up…he weighs 27 pounds and is 3 feet tall.  He’s in the 10th percentile for weight and height.  He is still behind on all of his motor skills, but that doesn’t phase me.  I know he is working on all of the things he can’t do in therapy and will get there eventually.

Maisy also had her 9 month check up the same day.  She is 17.4 pounds and 28.25 inches.  That’s the 10th percentile for weight and the 75th percentile for height.  She had to get a shot, luckily big brother was there to hold her hand.  He was probably squeezing hard enough that she barely noticed the pain from the shot.  She’s developing perfectly, nothing to worry about there. 

So that’s that.  As we approach summer I don’t think our months get any slower or less busy.  But hey, it wouldn’t be “madness” if things were ever calm!