iPhone offload: Seahawks and Puppy Edition

Uncle Balls gave Nolan tickets to a Seahawks game, Daddy got to go as his plus one.

Close up of my one and only attempt at making Nolan's bday cake.
I'm leaving it to the professionals (Jodi) from now on! 

Nolan's Bday Sleepover. They watched Turbo which was cute but Nolan's favorite part was the m&m/popcorn mix I made. I love that the girls are watching the movie and my boys are eating.

Oh tiny 6 week old Ruby. This was the first picture of her, I took on the way home from picking her up. I laugh because although she is still black she looks completely different now. 

Here she is this week, at 14 weeks old in the same seat. She has gained almost 20 pounds, at least tripled in height and her ears don't fold over anymore.  

Here's some more picture of her from her first week with us. At this age she fit through Miles' legs  and now she is almost as tall as him.

We learned that Ruby had a bit of car anxiety. You can see from the photo above she has sense overcome that

We all got bikes for Christmas, including Miles who got this fancy baby seat and helmet. 

We inherited my mom's piano. This is what happens when you bring a piano into a house of little boys.
It is now a monster truck course.

Waiting for brother at OT 

Oh and if you were wondering how Mavis feels about the new addition to the family, she's not happy. It doesn't really impact her much though since she stays upstairs and Ruby stays downstairs. They have had some pretty intense staring matches through the baby gate though. 

Celebrating the Super Bowl win downtown. Total craziness, but cheerful craziness.

I put our Sherman head in the back of my jacket so my hands would be free. This resulted in total strangers asking to take a picture of the back of my head.

A few days later taking Sherman to the parade.

Angry, cold baby! He was much happier when we found a spot inside.

All tuckered out post parade.

This is when we knew we were in trouble with this puppy. At 12 weeks old she figured out how to climb out of her enclosure. We ordered her a crate right away. 

Oh yes, our first park outing. This is the park that turned out to be the NO DOGS ALLOWED park...oops!

While I was helping Nolan untangle Ruby from her leash Miles walked straight into the lake. I turned around to see him calf deep in the water and stuck in the mud. A+ parenting at it's best.

My house project this month. Turning Nolan's crib base into a bulletin board for Nolan's room.  And yes I got all sappy about having pieces of his baby years back in his room. I just spray painted it and added clips so not the most challenging project but still something to cross off the list.

It wouldn't be an iPhone update without a Nolan wearing a mustache pic.

Oh glorious sun, we enjoyed you so much. Please come back soon.

On those sunny days I crossed another thing off my house list and edged the yard, added a border and a little path. Unfortunately it only looked like this for an hour because our tiny landscaper (Ruby) dug up the dirt around the path and messed it up. Have I mentioned how cute she is?
Side story from this: After finishing up the landscaping I was super sore so Nolan and I jumped in the hot tub while Miles was napping. Nolan hot tubs in the nude these days, the joys of being 5...I wear a swim suit. After the hot tub Nolan asked if he could jump on the trampoline and when I said of course he scurried over and did some naked trampoline time. He kept yelling "this is the best day ever!!!" over and over again.
I'm thankful that he is so easy to please. 

One thing off my life bucket list. We rode the Duck! 

Happy Saint Patrick's Day! Nolan was super into it this year. Last year our milk was died green and Nolan was anxious to see if the leprechauns could find us at our new house to do it again. They did! They also turned our pictures upside down. Crazy Leprechauns! 

A little post bath computer time. Miles did not mind being Nolan's pillow at all.
As long as he's close to brother he is happy.

Nolan started tball this week and really liked it. Miles wanted out on that field so bad, I ended up chasing him around most of the practice. But we let him out at the beginning and ending huddles. 

Nolan is the one playing in the dirt. :)

Miles did his very first drawing! And also ate his very first marker. He literally just bite the tip off that thing. I did get him to spit it out though.

Nolan playing 2 piano's Jerry Lee Lewis Style.

Happy boys + tired mama...it's been a long week