Daddy Daughter Date

Ryan took Sadie to Home Depot for their date. Sadie was so excited to make a race car with her dad, she talked about it the whole week before and after.

Alkema March Madness

I've got a lot of catch up to do for the month of March, so I'll just dump it all into one post. We FINALLY went to Kangaroo Zoo for the first time a few weeks ago. I'm sad to say we have lived less than 5 minutes from there for almost 4 years, and this is our first trip. We seriously had a blast. We'll be regulars from now on. :)




Here is Boston at 3.5 months sitting in the saucer for the first time. He loves this thing!

Love that smile!

My tubby baby went from 98th percentile in weight at 2 months to 79th percentile at 4 months. He's only a measly 16 lbs. :)

He's been noticing toys better and has started grabbing at his toes. He does this all the time now. It's so fun.

Sadie just loves toddler gym at the rec. center nearby. This week was a dinosaur theme.

She thought it was cool to stomp around like a dinosaur.

Sadie and Sophie digging for bones. :)

Here is my failed attempt at clover pancakes for St. Patty's

Green eggs and ... kilbasa...?

And YUMMY pistachio cookies

And today March 23rd we had Boston try out cereal for the first time. I am so in love with this kid. Every little or totally insignificant thing is so exciting to me.



Even though he's all smiles, he did not like his first "solid" meal at all. I anticipated this, of course, which is why we are starting earlier than we did with Sadie. I'm hoping to get this ball rolling so he can feel more satiated at night soon so we can cut this 4 am feeding. Cross your fingers!!

Sadie's First Catch!

Sadie got this rockin' Sponge Bob fishing pole last season, but only got to take it out once or twice. This was our first fishing trip of the year and she caught the one an only fish of the day! Of course Ryan baited and cast it, but "she" reeled it in! This was the best picture we could get, she kept dropping it low every time I'd take a picture. She was so excited! She keeps relating the story how she caught a "white fish all by myself!"

What the...???

We had just made a trip to Costco and Sadie had fallen asleep on the ride home. I made a few trips up our stairs unloading the car. I woke her up to go inside the house and I would carry Boston up. I got him out of the car, walked upstairs and I couldn't find Sadie inside. I was sure she wasn't running around outside our condo complex while I was carrying up Boston. Perplexed, I went back downstairs and saw this:

Yes, she is really asleep on our curb. That can't be comfortable.

Hair dispair

I'm pretty sure all babies have the yucky bald spot in the back of their head because of how they just have to look around rubbing it side to side. That patch just happens to be WAY more obvious when the baby has a lot of hair. I had been meaning to trim up Boston's hair for a while to better disguise the bald patch, but Ryan beat me to it. While I was teaching dance one night, Ryan decided to bic his hair into a bowl cut. WHAT THE??? I'm pretty sure bowl cuts were cool when I was in elementary school goggling over Johnathan Taylor Thomas. That's not going to fly with this mama.

Here are some pictures of the before his first of 3 haircuts to try to solve this problem:




We didn't have time to fix it before church, but luckily I happened to have the cutest disguise in the world!



After two more attempts here is the final product. We did our best with a wiggly baby, so please don't judge!

It doesn't help his hair has thinned a lot in the last month. I hope it doesn't ALL fall out, but if it does, at least he's a boy.