Got to love Menards!

William had a ton of fun today at Menards, there's the garden center just being set up (no fountains on yet), the door area with lots of doors to open and close, the patio set area with swing chairs, mailboxes and other fun stuff, and seed packets.  I swear we have enough seeds to plant our whole lawn with, we are going to have to pick and choose when we finally put in our garden.

Pictures from the week...

Chilling watching Sophia while Daddy reads.  I had to order 5T pajamas to keep the long torso covered.

William and I made Turtle bread, found an old cookbook with A to Z recipes for kids.

Grandma Mc's new quilt has become a favorite in that it has to come every he goes in the house!

Funny faces at our art table.

William is pretty well potty trained now and prefers underwear to diapers.  We still put them on for sleeping, but he is doing better at telling Mom and Dad when he has to go.  And the accidents he has are smaller, stopped before they get too big.  So that is good, diaper consumption is finally decreasing!

We have been doing a lot of cooking together, William wanted to make pink ice cream the other night so off to the store we went.  And it had to be Pick and Save, because they have the "medium carts" the carts with a small storage area but full height that William can now barely see over.  I am missing my Festival foods, but hopefully the lure of free jello will call William back to Festival soon.  Our strawberry ice cream turned out wonderful; we used a jar of our strawberry jam and might have to make another batch again soon.

Earlier today I saw big fluffy snowflakes again, urgh.  I am so ready for spring.  I want to see flowers and grass and birds and go outside with out hats and mittens.  I hope things turn around in April or I am going to go bezerk with spring fever.

We are off to Minnesota for Easter and look forward to seeing lots of friends and family!

Happy St. Patricks Day

Having fun with our train set...

Out for a walk in the not so springy weather.  We had our puddle boots on ready for splashing, and they were put to good use.

The guys with their Irish shirts on...

Thanks Mom and Dad for a great visit, good food, a chance to get out sans child, and fun with William's toys.

Humor

William is deep into finding out what makes him laugh...Toots top the list, both him and Daddy laugh and laugh when one of them toots.  Funny noises that Daddy makes, that sound like... you guessed it farts is also high on the giggle list.

This week he discovered "Sophia the First" on the I pad and has had fun laughing at their silly dances on the sleep over show.  "Jungle Junction" wasn't on there this week so Sophia has become the thing to watch.  It's about a princess, but has good morals for boys or girls.

William is showing more character when he doesn't get his way.  First the frown comes out, then the head drops down, and then if we really need some drama, we fall to the floor to pout.  The changeable 3 year old in pictures:  

One minute completely sad because Momma said no to something.

The next moment laughing a funny noises Momma was making from behind the camera.

 

William and Murphy playing "tug-o-war" together.

 

Sporting a new dress up hat Will found at Target.

Showing off our sock puppets we made this weekend.

Modern Marbles

Quotes from William this week...

"I need more hole!" as he was climbing through my legs.  Guess he is getting a bit bigger these days and needs a larger hole to climb through.

"Where did the firefighters take the fire?", after we talked about a house that had a major fire a ways up the street.  I told him the firefighters put the fire out and he wanted to know where they took it after they put it out.  I didn't have a good answer for that but I explained that fires should only be in fireplaces or in the campfire ring.  That got him starting talking about G&G Mc's cabin and marshmellows.

"I want to watch Modern Marbles", referring to Modern Marvels the TV show that apparently he,  G&G S and Daddy were watching while I was traveling.

We also tried some interesting science experiments this week...

Pickles dipped in huckleberry jam are apparently very tasty. 

We melted "icebergs" (mini ice cubes) in hot water.

We found some large floor puzzles at the mall and are having fun with them. The farm one is especially fun as you have to find and count all the animals after the puzzle is put together.

And had fun painting water on the basement floor as seen below with Murphy.

I feel guilty but that is all the pictures I took this week.  I am sick of the snow and need it to melt so we can get outside and take some spring pictures!