Well, May is here already and the kids have been busy playing outside, going to pre-school on Tuesday's and Thursday's, and helping Mommy and Daddy plant flowers and the rest of the garden.
We began the spring with a trip to Omaha for Emily's 1st birthday party in March. Brayton and Lauren each got to go to Grandma & Grandpa Anderson's by themselves. It was the first time either had been away from Mom & Dad by themselves and they both did well.
In January we noticed Lauren's left eye was starting to get a little bit lazy. We took here to the eye Dr. He prescribed glasses and some patch therapy 4 hours a day. A couple weeks ago, we took Brayton to the eye Dr. for the annual checkup...Guess what, same problem. So, now I have two children in glasses.
I got to play a couple weekends of rugby, which one weekend the kids attended the game. My friend Matt O'Neill spent some time teaching some young boys how to scrum and tackle. Brayton had a ball. He was playing against some pretty stiff competition, one boy (Matt's son Owen) was one year older than Brayton, the other two boys were eight and ten. But like his father he doesn't back down from anyone.
May came and with it was Lauren's third birthday. We had a really fun birthday party, Grandma's & Grandpa's all attended, Ryan & Mikhael, Maria, and Emily came from Omaha. Uncle Matt and Aunt Audra also came over for our party. It was a really fun day, we had a great meal together and got to sing Happy Birthday to Lauren. I think she felt like a pretty special little girl. I hope so.
Last fun story, I love to sing to Lauren at night when it's bedtime. I sing all kinds of different songs, nursery rhymes and such. Tonight, as I was rocking her I sang "Ba Ba Black Sheep," "ABC's," "Mary Had a Little Lamb," "Jesus Loves Me," and then proceeded to an encore of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," when Lauren stopped me and said "Daddy, you're not very good at that one." My daughter.
