Happy Earth Day!

To celebrate I've got three sleeping boys in the house right now. I can't believe it. I'm not sure what Easton's doing taking a nap, he apparently put himself in bed during quiet time. I guess he needs it but I sure hope we don't regret it later tonight. However, experience tells me we will. Oh well. I'll have to run him later to tire him out again.

Actually, getting outside later won't be a bad idea. I just need to remember to sunscreen up. Yesterday I was outside with the boys for all of 10-15 minutes and totally fried the part of my back and neck sticking out of my shirt. Of course my boys and their Cajun blood are just fine, even though they were outside even longer than I was.

We were out there planting seeds for our window garden. I've had these several times in the past but my efforts are always foiled by our foolish cat. This time I realized I have a windowsill in my laundry room where the cat doesn't really go. So as soon as E got home from school we went to work:


Dalton helped at first:


Then I guess he got tired of us correcting him so much so he planted himself in the sandbox instead:


Eastie and I finished up. He planted the seeds...we did basil, dill, and rosemary.


I explained that herbs were something you could eat and put in your foods to flavor them. He is now looking forward to a peanut butter and dill sandwich.

His favorite part of the whole experience is watering them, and lucky for him, we'll have to do that a lot:


The boys stayed out to play while I cleaned up and then got lunch ready before D's nap. I ended up having to wake him because he was sleeping too long. We went outside to head up to an outdoor mall but saw our favorite neighbors across the street (the only ones who speak to us). The mom (Lisa) and the oldest of the three kids (Ben) came over to chat with us so we wouldn't have to shout at one another across the street. Ben and the boys played by climbing trees, hide and seek, chase, and the golf cart. Diddles just tries to keep up. Anyway, that's when I realized I was burned. Ouch.

After we were finished chatting the boys and I packed up and drove up to one of the outdoor shopping areas. Jason can't always remember the name so he usually refers to it as, "Is that the place where Easton bus' his face?" (in the fountains last summer). They had a Gymboree I wanted to stop by since the one inside the other mall didn't have squat in the sizes I wanted. Easton got some cute new underwear that he most certainly doesn't need. That boy has an overflowing undie drawer but I was rationalizing it by saying I'd need to set some aside for Dalton (hopefully soon). Wishful thinking. Very wishful.

I also got a little somethin' somethin' for Wabie. Two somethings, actually. Darn my friend Andrea for pointing out the cute girl clothes Gymbo has. I don't go there too often, I didn't understand how to shop the sales and deals there so while I like their clothes, it's waaaaaaaaaay too pricey for my budget normally. We did go to get Easton a guitar shirt on clearance someone told me about. And found one for D too (which they ironically both wore yesterday). Anyway, Andrea is due a couple of weeks after me with her third. She's also got two boys already and is hoping for a baby girl and linked to a super sweet coming home outfit she was eyeing. That led me to look at their stuff and I fell in love with this as a potential summery coming home outfit for Wabie Wirl:


However, we also always planned on buying a coming home outfit for both genders so I picked out this for Wabie Woy even though I don't completely love it:

I'll pair it with a polo or something to fancy it up a bit. That is, if I don't find something I like more...it's a bit casual. And I hope I do find something I like more.

Jason even thinks that the girl outfit may be a bit casual but I adore it. Because I love it so much more than the other outfit I'm certain I'll have to return it once Wabie's here. :) Oh well.

After we were done in Gymboree we went to the outside play area. I had to remind the boys to stay out of the fountains as it was a little chilly yet and we had no back up clothes, yet planned to go out to dinner. They still had fun:




However the actual play area really didn't hold their attention for long and they busied themselves with other things:




After awhile it was time to go. We were meeting Jason for dinner at a restaurant where we had a buy one get one free coupon for entrees. This place also has rooftop dining and the boys were excited about that. However, we got up there and they were both punks. Until our food arrived it was a pretty miserable time. Whining and crying and throwing things and a time out in the car. Luckily it was already quite loud up there from being so crowded...also means it was quite smokey. Yuck. Everyone was better once the food arrived...guess it was just a low blood sugar thing.

We came home for a treat and baths and bed.

And Carson this morning!

Once again both boys were absolutely thrilled to see him. The second E got up he told me, "Batman is excited to get to babysitting again" and rushed in to see Carson. At one point the boys were nearly fighting over Carson so I had to move them away from the baby because they were overwhelming him. Good grief! Can't wait till we have one of our own here all the time...hopefully that kid'll be used to all the excitement. :)

Easton is going to continue to be an amazing big brother and helper. He really wanted to feed Carson today...starting with his first bottle:






Man that baby is huge on my little guy's lap!

He seems roughly the same size as Dalton. D kept asking Carson to 'nuggle and seriously, they looked about the same size sitting across from one another.

We had a rather quiet morning involving playing Wii for the first time in months. It was D's idea so he got to go first while Carson and Easton looked on:


Now as I said, all three kids are napping and I think I'll keep doing some quiet stuff myself. Gotta run...