Collin and I made a leprechaun trap this year. I figured it would be a hit because Collin is all about pretend....but....
Holy cow was it a hit! The leprechaun we tried to catch every night and didn't, but he would leave us a treat. Collin got SO into this..... seriously. It was one of my greater ideas.... so that will have to become an annual tradition.
This was going on a walk on St. Patrick's Day I guess... Collin must have been mad :)
Back in March it finally got warm enough to play outside for awhile. 
Collin and Liam could LIVE outside, literally, if I let them. 
Liam loved playing in our little car. 
Both boys loved the swing. Collin is almost too big for the swing, but Liam...he loved to eat the swing. 
Yeah for spring!
Earlier this year Ryan started taking Collin to the Home Depot Saturday workshops. 
It's a fun daddy-son bonding time. This time he got to build a car. And they even had a real race!
Collin loves painting the best. 
And he loves the little pins he gets with each project!
Collin is ALL about tools and machines, so he loves "the man store" as we call it. 
We got another semi big snow storm in March. Collin LOVES to go and help Ryan shovel. He could do it for HOURS....soon enough, he can shovel all the snow himself we keep telling him. 
All decked out in the snowsuit. 
Again, Liam at the window. I'm too mean of a mom to let him go out in the snow, he watched from the window and had a ball. 
It's a joke in our family to have "grandpa" Collin or Liam when we make their pants super pulled up. Here is Liam's version of Grandpa Liam.
The pictures don't do it justice but he looked SO hilarious wandering around. Yeah for March!
This year we only made it to one of the free zoo days. But it was SO much fun! It was Liam's first time to the zoo if I remember right, and since Collin isn't taking naps as much these days, we stayed there over two hours!
It was a bit chilly, but we just bundled up. The animals were out and about and for about the first hour (we got there right when it opened at 9) we were practically the only ones there. 
We got to be up close and personal to so many of the animals. The tigers were especially close and very menacing.
I know....horrible picture, but the tiger had literally just walked by the glass. 
Collin and Liam both love animals so it was so fun to go. 
The giraffes were a huge hit. They were inside this time, but we got to see the blue tongues, as well as get very close to their heads. 
Liam in his cute little monster hat. LOVE this hat.
We got to go and see many of the animals a second time and it warmed up a bit once we got there. 
Yea for free zoo days!
It has been the weirdest winter this year. Collin has only had to break out his snow suit and boots like twice. Sad.... being the lover of outdoors that he is, we were SO excited to finally have some snow that lasted all day. 
Snowballs is the new thing for him. I don't think he discovered really what you can do with them until this day. 
The staredown.
Yes, we were outside for quite awhile that afternoon. Yeah finally for some snow!
When we bought our house, we loved our front room window. 
Granted, I'm too lazy to find the pictures of Collin almost in this exact same pose by our window, probably same age. The window is addicting...
Liam loves to haul things around as his "pets"....namely the glue gun and the hand mixer. He could do that for hours!
Yes, I'm once again behind on posting, but our new Internet service is MUCH faster, so I can post faster and easier. Back in February, I got to be the helper mom for Collin's Valentine's preschool party. 
It was so fun to see how the preschool went. And even though Collin kept looking at me and being silly since I was there, I still got to see a lot of cute things.
Collin got to lead the pledge when I was there. That was cool. It was more cool to hold the flag :)
The best part was the singing and the songs Miss Emily had. They were awesome. All movement songs. I must get some of them for me at home.
We also got to make fun Valentines and hand out the Valentines. 
Loved these little mats they sit on. 
Or jump on or whatever Collin is doing here...
Doing real school stuff...
Thanks for letting me come to the party!
