March 2024

Oh what a month!

We FINALLY got over our collective sicknesses mid-month. I had to go to urgent care to fully kick my crud (though based on what I was prescribed, I’m not sure it wasn’t just that I was already on the downhill). It all worked out just in time for our visitors to come!

My father in law came mid month to help the Mister with the driveway. He brought his tractor and got it all dug up and cleaned out. They added some railroad ties along the edges as well and those help a lot. We should probably add a bit more gravel now that the rain has packed it, but that’ll be another project for another day.

Those railroad ties are great!

During that visit, my parents decided to come down as well, since Dad’s team lost at districts and Mom was on spring break. We had a full house, but it was a nice time. Little Man got lots of time to hang out with everyone.

Hugs for Grandad.
Sharing Grammys’s cookies with Nana
TV with Grandpa. We missed Grandma this visit.

Little Man had a busy month with all the visitors and two holidays celebrated at school. He also had spring preschool photos.

First ice cream truck visit
Drumstick pick
New saucer swing from Nana, added to his swing set by Daddy and Grandpa
Spring preschool photo by Alison Weakley Photography

I finally got our fire table put together and am looking forward to using it on the back porch this spring/summer.

I forgot how pretty this is!

After all our visitors left, we spent part of the weekend at Cheekwood for the Holi celebration. We had never been before and really enjoyed our time! I really love taking Little Man to these festivals to celebrate other cultures and traditions (and Cheekwood does an excellent job making them as authentic as possible).

Color throwing
The best mess
He had so much fun throwing the powders
Daddy got the easy clean up
Henna
Dancers
Enjoying some chicken tikka

The next day, Little Man was invited to his first birthday party for a classmate. They held it at a gymnastics center and the kids loved it. He had a good time but was so worn out by the end.

Foam block pit
Sitting next to the birthday boy (they’re great friends)
Rock wall
Top of the world.

The following week at school was Easter themed with a class egg hunt.

Found one!
Line up
Class photo

We returned to Cheekwood for their annual Great Spring Art Hop the last weekend of the month.

We trekked all over the gardens in search of painted bunnies, participated in an egg hunt, and did some cute crafts the gorgeous, sunny weather.

He picked some of the silliest poses. We found all but one bunny (again!) this year.
The last of the tulips.
Checking out the artworks.
Muscles by the mansion fountain
My favorite this year.
Tulip crafts (he loved the little bumblebees)
Egg hunt was much better this year. We put him in the 4-6 group, so he only had to worry about other kids, not parents grabbing every egg up.
So proud of his egg (excuse the dirty nails — we were outside playing after all).

We came home exhausted but still made time to dye our own Easter eggs, since the Mister had staff duty on Easter. We decided to have the bunny wait until Monday to come so we could all be home to celebrate.

Patience is tough, but he did great and enjoyed coloring the eggs.
We had a weird number of eggs to use, so the last 3 eggs got mixes of leftover dyes

We spent Easter Sunday (dang, was it early this year!) hanging out just Little Man and me. We watched It’s the Easter Beagle Charlie Brown, and I got the kitchen picked up so I could cook after the Mister comes home from staff duty tomorrow. We are planning to do our own egg hunt in the backyard, and Little Man will get his basket from the Easter Bunny — We talked about the bunny coming late since daddy had to work.

April miraculously doesn’t have anything actually planned adventure-wise. My birthday is days away, and I legitimately didn’t realize just how fast it was coming up until I saw the date on a jug of milk. Craziness!

I’m looking forward to finishing my planters and hopefully having a relaxing month since we’ve been constantly on the go or sick recently. We’ll see if that’s how it plays out.

Until then,