Man School?

Seriously?!

Do boys have some unofficial man-school that they attend when mommies aren't looking that teach them these things?

Twice in the past week Ace has decided to walk around with no shorts or diaper. I've kept my calm (and just noted where his hiny's touched for later cleaning) and he's asked to put them back on within about 20 minutes. What phase is this?

Easter - The Risen Part

At least I know he can repeat the important part of Easter.

Nothing sweeter to my ears.

Easter - The Bunny Part

I go back and forth on Easter and Christmas...do we stick only to the true meaning of these holidays or is it harmless for Santa and the Easter Bunny to visit??? It's kind of misleading him on one hand: Christmas doesn't really culminate in presents and Easter is about an entire week of events not just the night the Bunny comes.

Luckily for Ace, I married Jonathan and his Daddy ensures that Mommy quits taking everything so seriously and making everything into a monumental, spiritual crossroads.

He followed some cascarones (thanks Honey because when I went to Walmart they had completely RUN OUT of plastic eggs!) to his presents. They were also out of baskets in case you were wondering why his gifts are in a wheelbarrow. (Couldn't get the video of him finding his gifts to upload...Arrrrgh.)

The Easter Bunny definitely scored big with his choices. My favorite was the alphabet flashcards. We've already been through them twice. Ace loved those little capsules that dissolve in water and turn into things. Here his is using his big imagination...

Here's (in my opinion) the best item in his Easter basket...after all, I am originally a Gilliam.

Just because he's cute

We were cleaning out his closet and found some western toys. He loved this red bandana and kept calling it his "cape." He wore it like this for 10 minutes and turned around as his "cape" for about 2 hours.

Good bathtime smiling.
Headed to Easter service.
Too bad it was over 90 degrees and too hot for his jacket.

Check out his dimple!

He LOVES kisses.

Loving on his B.

When Ace was really little, we use to pray that he would keep his happy, laughing personality. He's got it in spades. (Lately he's started "ugly talking" which is pretty embarrassing. He'll tell people to "go home" and mumble mumbo-jumbo under his breath which you know isn't nice. But other than these moments, we are blessed to have such a happy kid.)

It's impossible...

...that our little man is 3!!!

This is so sad but we've been so busy at work that we had to postpone his birthday party (time and date still to be determined) and we hadn't purchased his birthday present yet! So the only gift I had for him when he woke up was from his Aunt Phyllis and Uncle Bill! Thank the Good Lord for their thoughtfulness!!!

Despite it being a work day, I tried really hard to make the most of his birthday.

At lunchtime, we took Gabby and Pop's giftcard to Target so he could buy anything he wanted.

It's frightening that he already knows the concept of paying with a card.

Of course, he wanted Monster Trucks. I swear I tried to entice him into other purchases but we ended up with Brutus and Predator. Check out the delight on his face.

Waiting for his cake. Is there any cuter face than this?


Ok people, I'm no cake decorator so no comments from the peanut gallery please. It sure tasted good though. It was four layers: two chocolate and two vanilla. It had vanilla frosting and pecans between the layers and the top is chocolate icing (which I tried to make look like dirt). We used the rest of the gift card from Gabby and Pops for the giant monster truck on top.

Happy Birthday Mini-Man. You are our best friend (if you haven't been around Ace lately, this is what he tells everyone).

Character

My little character...yup, those are his undies.

An apple a day...what can we say?
He is the source of all of our laughs and my happy heart.

Perfect Picking

Sorry for the lack of posts. Busy-season has taken up every spare minute of my day since February. I took off yesterday morning for some family fun. (Let me preface this story by saying, earlier that morning, Ace threw up on me three times and he said that strawberries would make him feel better.)

Here's the crew with empty buckets.

Picking took serious concentration and strength.
And even more strength to carry them all.

Look HOW beautiful! See the huge one? Ace and I hunted for "monsters" and these are the ones that we picked.

We had dosed him with Benadryl right before berry picking and this was the result...

We hopped over to Kemah after berry picking for lunch at Landry's. Ace slept through lunch in our laps, covered with Jonathan's hat. It was soooo much fun. We didn't pick enough though so we'll have to go back after we've munched through this batch.