Like Water for Elephants

You may or may not have been wondering if I gave up blogging for Lent.  No such luck!  I gave up Facebook and Instagram for a week prior to Lent--but we are back online!

 Since the last update, we celebrated Valentine's day, checked out the Circus and stomped right into March (Pun! Ha!).  You can probably guess who my cute lil Valentine was this year :).

 It was just warm and sunny enough to squeeze in an afternoon hike.  Love that he picked up a stick, slung it over his shoulder and pointed the way.  He's a natural explorer.

 "What's dis mommy?"

 Not even intimidated by the biggest hurdle!

 Gramma and Poppy wanted to see John Thomas' bowling skills for themselves.  We even convinced Nana Gay and Tony to tag along.  Although I'm not sure it took much convincing, because Tony has his own shoes and bowling ball!

 Gramma took full advantage of the opportunity to give John Thomas some tips.

 Step one: Pick up the ball and walk ever so cutely towards the lane.  Step two: Approach line with ball in hands.  Step three: throw ball as hard as you can.  Step four: Run back to all your adoring fans.  Repeat.

 Gramma and Poppy even splurged on a family circus outing.  John Thomas thought it was pretty cool, although I think my parents may have enjoyed it the most!  Thanks again Gramma and Poppy for taking us to the circus!!

 Of all the souvenirs, he picked the large rubber elephant.  No complaints from me though, because it was also the cheapest souvenir!  Moreover, it makes an excellent bath time buddy!  "Dumbo" likes to eat bubbles, swim and drink bath water AND Momma likes that he doesn't need to be fed or pottied and doesn't require any batteries.  Like I said, the perfect souvenir!

 Love this face!

We can pack a lot of fun into three weeks!  Me and most of my college girl friends got together in Cleveland for a swanky wine tasting party.  It was a blast and Cara and Andrew are awesome hosts!  So good to see the gals and meet new friends as well!  Thanks again Harrods!!

 I know most parents think their kid is hilarious and I am no exception.  Just this week, he has started assuming a very relaxed position when we head off to school in the morn.  Cracks me up!  Milk, Mr. Owl, and blanket in hand.  Ankles crossed.  He has no idea that Momma is hustling around to make sure we both get to school safely and on time.

 Took him for his third professional haircut yesterday.  He is starting to take this haircutting business pretty serious.

 Until yesterday, I have only seen John Thomas draw a few things that were identifiable.  He can draw a mean snail or snake.  But, yesterday when I was fixing lunch he drew this.  Can you tell what it is?  No?  He told me it was a sea horse!  Now do you see it?  :)

 Lastly, I'll leave you with is a few cute things that John Thomas has said or done lately that shows his sweet spirit.
1.  He said, "That would be perfect!" when I asked him if he wanted a friend to come over.
2.  If he likes what he's eating, he says "It's delicious!"
3.  He wanted to buy his teacher, Ms. Julie, something the last time we went to the store.  I abruptly told him if he was going to buy stuff for his girlfriend, he needed to get a job. :)

4.  Whenever I ask him to take off his shoes, he has starting putting them on my pile of shoes that accumulates at the end of my bed throughout the week.  For some reason, the first time I went to put my shoes on and realized he put his shoes with Momma's shoes, it made me tear up a little.