Spring Fever

Well over a month has passed since the last post and I actually thought I would get to it sooner than that! Oh well, life happens. What have we been up to… tons and tons!

After the Franklin 5K on St. Patrick’s Day we got ready for more warn weather and lots of fun. We started the fun with our friend Evie’s birthday party at the Museum of Life and Science butterfly house. All the boys went and had a great time. Chase even got to hold a butterfly (well, let it sit on his finger is the more correct description).

Chase and his butterfly at Evie's birthday party

 Then we geared up for March Madness and the end of Carolina Basketball – too hard to talk about so I will just say that we had a pretty good rhythm going with the Morgan family until “the injury” ended that series of events.

Chase and Evie enjoying a cookie while rooting on the Tarheels

Popi came for a quick overnight visit so we managed to get this shot.

Popi and his boys (L-R: J,A,G,C)

 Early April blessed us with gorgeous weather so we spent lots of time outside with some of it watching Chase play soccer. Yes, microsoccer has begun again and this time I get to try to watch him (no, I am not coaching this time around) and keep up with 3 walkers and a speed racer-crawler. Let the good times roll! Chase has a new buddy on his team, Joey and they crack us up to watch. He is literally dominating on the field to the point where Jason and I get a little embarrassed with how well he does compared to some of the other kids. The best thing I have been told though is how wonderful his manners are. Above all, that still seems to shine through and I love it. We have a few more weeks left and then we will have to wait until Rookie Sports Camp this summer for more organized sports to start. He isn’t old enough for T-ball or we would have signed him up for that too.

The Jellyfish - Spring 2012

Chase in action - tongue out just like his Daddy (and Grandpa!)

Then came Easter – holy moly did we have a busy Easter weekend. We started at an egg hunt at a classmate of Chase on Friday morning, followed by a Festival and egg hunt at Matt and Jennifer’s church on Saturday wrapped up with Brunch with the Easter bunny at Grandma’s club. But wait, we then had to find the eggs that the Easter bunny left at our house. Whew!

Hunting eggs at Wes' house

Jack and Graham at the festival

After the festival egg hunt

Cousins Easter 2012 (J,G,A in front)

Easter 2012 (J, A, G)

Daddy, Chase and the Easter bunny (Chase couldn't wait to get home to wear his new Lightning McQueen Crocs)

With Nana Easter 2012

With Grandma Easter 2012

The whole clan Easter 2012

Jack

Graham on the hunt

Anthony

Chase making bunny ears with his Elmo bunny eggs

All in all, everyone is doing remarkably well. Jack is on a break from physical therapy. We decided to wait until after his 15 month appointment and have the pediatrician evaluate him as well. Then he will go back for a follow-up with the therapist to determine whether we need to resume or not. Personally, I think he won’t have too because he is doing amazing right now. He is scheduled to have tubes put in his ears on May 4^th which I think will help him walk on his own. That is the biggest thing he can’t do right now – walk or stand on his own. Graham and Anthony are cutting teeth like crazy along with Jack so we are on what seems to be a constant regemin of Tylenol and Benedryl (pollen issues) but it works just fine for us!

Chase has a little over a month of school left and is still doing great. I am in awe of some of the things that he tells me at the end of the school day and some of the things that he retains and can recall weeks or months later. He is entering that phase where he is starting to push limits a little more so we are trying to strike a good balance between allowing him to explore his world but me still keeping my sanity! Hopefully we are doing okay with it!

We have some trips coming up in the next few weeks which will lead to another blog soon so keep looking. Until then, I hope you have enjoyed the update and pictures.