All Aboard, The Birthday Express!

This weekend we celebrated both boy's birthdays, Matt's 1st (June 13) and Drew's 3rd (June 17). Given Drew's love for trains we themed the party appropriately.




























They each got their own cake and as you can see, however, Matt was a victim of a bad accident with red frosting. Needless to say he required a bath before bed last night.

They of course both got several wonderful presents. Matt's favorite is this car, the excitement he gets when he is riding in it, is priceless, we are glad he is enjoying seeing it is probably the only car we'll every buy him. Do you think he will see be that excited about it when he is 16?

Drew's First Pet

For Drew's birthday the neighbor boys were kind enough to give Drew his first pets, Goldfish. He has named them Nemo and Marlin (Nemo's dad in the movie). Drew absolutely loves them, he keeps going up to their tank and saying "I think they are smiling at me!". Let's hope we can keep them alive long enough till the novelty wears off.

Drew - Age 2 in Review

Matt 1 year

What we won’t do to get Drew to sleep.

As may know, Drew doesn’t sleep well, you may also know that Drew is really into trains. He sees trains in any object, it could be a line of pencils or crackers, recently he has started to line up the laundry baskets and push them around (or be pushed around) as a train. So one night when we were struggling to get Drew to sleep, we gave up fighting with him and let him sleep in his “train”. As you can see the trick worked for Drew as well as Craig.

Kid Free Weekend

My cousin Erin got married in Pittsburg over Memorial Day weekend, so we left the boys at Grandma’s and enjoyed a weekend to ourselves. It was a wonderful weekend and the wedding was beautiful. It was great to see some of my extended family.
















While we were there we even took in a baseball game on Friday night.

Then on Saturday morning we did a sightseeing riverboat tour of the city.

As well as went up the incline to see the city from atop of Mount Washington.

My favorite memory of the weekend is my dad dancing at the wedding, it reminded me of our wedding when my dad kicked up his heels.

Twins?!?

I’ve been in denial that Drew and Matt look identical until I compared these two photos. Drew is in the green and Matt is in the blue.