Keeping it in the Hood

Dylan loves playing with our neighbor's kids.  Can't blame him there are 5 of them and it beats playing with no one. Out of the kids, he typically plays with the only girl more than anyone.  Sometimes he will call her his girlfriend, but they are best buds. The other day he was playing with them so hard that he had an accident in his undies and had to go get some new underwear and pants.  He brought them back out to me on the porch and said hurry before the kids leave.

here is a snap shot of Dylan and his "girlfriend"

Meet Natalie

My friends Jill and Lauren threw Natalie and me a special little party.  Since I didn't know if I was having a boy or a girl, Jill and Lauren decided to do a party after I delivered. It was more of a meet Natalie party, however, only one person in attendance had not officially met her yet.  It was very simple, elegant and only a few close friends were present. (I have something against big showers for 2nd, 3rd, etc children. No offense to those who have had them, I just wasn't interested in it.)

The food was delicious. The guests were fabulous.  We had a great time.  Thank you girls for making it so special.  I wish I had taken more pictures but when you have a newborn in tow, the camera isn't a priority.

Spring Program

Dylan's school had their spring program this week and I wasn't expecting much from Dylan on the performance end. At Christmas he was so distracted by the lights, he didn't really perform.  Well I was wrong.  I guess you could say he was the center of attention (at least for his class performance). For anyone who is cool and has been to a step show :)   You know there is one person in the step show who calls the next step....well that was Dylan accept it wasn't agreed upon by the class and music director, he just did it.  He started singing before everyone else, and then they joined in. Not only that put he showed some of his signature moves, the Captain Morgan pose that he does (one hand on the hip), lots of jumping and shouting. Later at home, he told me that he has to sing the songs really loud when I asked him to sing me the songs. He was a riot.  Also, later at home he told me that he was a rock star. Where he gets this I will never know.  I did send him to school that day in a rock star shirt so maybe that's where it came from.

I apologize for the quality of the pictures. The lighting in the church auditorium is horrible.

with all the classes

 with his class

 His post performance pose (look familiar?)

Afterwards the stars where rewarded with cookies and juice.  

Dylan and his BF 

Bath Time

Natalie loves bath time. She could soak for an hour I think. She kicks her little legs and stares at the shapes on the tub.  She cries when I take her out.  There for a while we would wash her hair under the sink faucet and again, she loves it. She just takes it all in.  Now, she gets her hair washed in the tub and she still enjoys the same. I see spa days in her future.

Big Brother wanted his picture taken too...

Wordless Wednesday

Easter Craft

I really want to start doing more things with Dylan during the day. My time feels so split but at this stage, Natalie requires a lot of hands on duty.  The other day, I had a few moments and took a craft idea from a friend and ran with it.  It's not quite the same as hers but I think I did it some justice.  I let Dylan paint the bunny's face. I used a painters tape roll and placed it on the paper as he painted inside it for that nice round look :)  I then painted the bottom of his feet for the bunny's ears.  and viola, you have an easter bunny.  It was simple but Dylan enjoyed using big boy paint that mommy uses and not the watercolor I usually let him use.