Bye-bye Oma! Hello spring!

I "pushed" Oma to the airport. I really did want her to stay a little longer, 

but pushing the luggage on rollers is just SO much fun. 

I checked Oma's bags to make sure she wasn't carrying any contraband. 

Oma gave me her final smooches of the trip.  

But there was one more thing Oma and I just had to do together...

ride the escalators at the airport!!!!!!!

I'm really good at getting on and off already, but I still like to practice 

my skills any chance I get.  After a few trips up and down, 

it was time to say good-bye to Oma. 

I'll miss you but can't wait until my April trip to Florida!

Finally, here's a shout out to one of my biggest fans, Miss Hannah 

(whom I firmly believe lives at Mommy and Daddy's office). 

She's the one who introduced me to fade lights. My life was never the same after! 

Anyhoo, Mom and I stopped by to visit Miss Hannah after the airport

 for a little pick-me-up (literally and figuratively). 

Back at the homestead, Dad's work shoes double as clown shoes!

In honor of a sunny day and hopes for spring, Dad and I planted some seeds. 

Yep, Grandpops, I'm still a lefty!

We planted my favorite fruit - the cantaloupe! They require 70 - 80 degree weather. Unfortunately, it is still freezing cold here. 

Fortunately, Mom keeps it a sweat-inducing 80 degrees inside the house. 

The seeds will hopefully be germinating in a few weeks 

while sitting on an indoor window sill.   

Be sure to check out all the new posts that went up around the same time! 

I also updated the post from Henry's visit with a few new photos from Uncle Jon.

See you later alligator...

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Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

Dr. Suess celebrates his birthday on March 2. In honor of the wacky wordsmith, we threw a grand birthday party in spectacular Seuss style befitting of the Cat in the Hat himself!

Here was the set-up before everyone arrived. 

I invited five other kids for an all-boy brunch. 

Yeah, balloons!!

Oma got to work making the red fish and blue fish pancakes. 

See, the pancake batter was really blue and red. Awesome!

Here's the whole crew, chowing down on green eggs and ham, red fish, blue fish pancakes, 

Who-hashbrowns, Yertle's fruit cup and Sneetches star-bellied cupcakes. 

The brave ones also drank the Yink's pink ink!

Clockwise, there's Tate on the far left in red, Cole in the black shirt, Me in my Cat in the Hat shirt, boring old Mommy, Mason and Wade and then Levi rounds out the group. 

Levi and his Daddy Matt check out the colorful spread. 

I think Levi went for a blue fish pancake!

I was glad that Oma was in town to enjoy Dr. Seuss's birthday too!

We had a lot of good fun that was funny!

And I shared my Oma with Levi's little sister, Delia. But just for a moment... 

I was busy hanging with Tate and Cole's Daddy, Paul...

or goofing with Levi's Daddy, Matt. 

What do you mean, "the party is over?" It was just getting going, man!

I think a good time was had by all! I even got behind the camera and captured everyone leaving. Not bad for a two year old. Look out Annie Lebowitz!

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My February Oma visit!

Oma made her first visit in the new year.  I was so excited to see her that I jumped into bed with her the first night in hopes that Mom and Dad would overlook the change in my sleeping arrangements. No luck. Rats!

Oma and I sure know how to make each other giggle!

Are you sure I can't sleep here tonight? 

I took Oma to one of my favorite playgrounds on her visit. 

I showed her this spooky tunnel...

Thank goodness there is a light at the end of the tunnel. 

I enlisted Mommy for the obstacle course. 

Um, I won't be enlisting in the military anytime soon. 

These tire obstacles are hard!

The twirly slides are more my speed. 

We had so much fun with Oma that we forgot to take a ton of photos

 of all the other stuff we did. 

Oh, well, there is always next time...I mean April!

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Enjoying the Short Warm Snap

Here we are again. I've got my main ride and I'm rolling 60, er, 2.5 to the park.  I was lucky and it was nice out last weekend, and we had all been cooped up inside with colds, so Mom made sure we got outside.

Just FYI, I had a little spill and bumped my lower lip.  It didn't hold me back much, and it's pretty much healed now.  But, it shows a little in some of the photos on this post, and I did not want my fans to get concerned.

Here we go.

I had some earlier posts on the basketball court, but Dad seems to think that soccer is a little more my game.  I do enjoy kicking the ball.

Maybe that consistent "height: 50 percentile" measurement is factoring in to his thinking, too. Anyway, I don't really care because I'm having fun.

Kick, kick, kick.

A soccer player has to eat, of course.  After all of that running around, I need some carbs.

Mom broke out the bread maker, and we made some dough.

Mmmmm.  Doesn't that look good?

I help roll it out.

And I helped put on sauce.

Unfortunately, this is where Dad put the camera down so he could supervise (sample) the toppings.  It was a beautiful pizza, I swear.  Meat balls, mozzarella, ricotta, garlic, spinach ... the works.  No left-overs here.

So anyway ...

Besides all of this hard work, I like to just have fun in the kitchen, too.

Up on the other counter.  There is an old iPod, my CD player, lots of cords, maybe even the power bill.  Dad, were you looking for that?

Kind of makes you wonder how I busted my lip, doesn't it?

I have discovered headphones.  I like them, but ...

they always seem to keep getting tangled up.

It looks like this weekend is another nice one.  Stay tuned for more outdoorsy shots.

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