Spring Has Sprung

Since I last posted Spring has sprung...supposedly. The last few days here in the PNW have been snowy. Thankfully we haven't had any accumulation and I don't really mind the weather being cold but it does throw a wrench in plans. Just as people were starting to dream of warm, sunny weather (I actually saw someone in shorts the other day and someone was jumping the gun a bit) we started to get flurries and plans for any park days have been squashed.

Rooney has really been crazy about the snow. He's been asking to play in it and he likes to watch it from the window. He even put his snow boots on and cried when he had to take them off for bed. "Snow boots on! Snow boots on!".

Before it snowed we had Easter and spring activities! With Active Moms and Tots we had a little Easter themed play day at the park building we currently have use of. The kids got to make little bunny ear headbands and make bags to collect Easter eggs in. All the kids actually wore the bunny ears we made! Rooney wore his for days and since he looked so cute I could hardly object.

Before Easter we had some birthday parties to attend! Felix turned 3 years old! Time is really flying, I can't believe it. Recently I signed Rooney up for the Almost 3's preschool class at the community center. He will start in the Fall and it is only 1 day for 2 hours but I really wonder if I'm ready! Kindergarten won't be too far around the corner. I hate to even think about it.

Anyway, we went to another 3 years old's birthday party also. She was actually born on the same day as Felix. Spooky. At her party they had a little bounce house and pony rides. Oh man Rooney loves bounce houses and he was fascinated with the ponies, but not enough to ride one. There was some coaxing but finally the agreement was struck to walk beside the pony...and Dad got to wear the riding helmet.

Before the birthday parties, ponies and bounce houses we took the kids to see The Reptile Man at the community center! This was a really fun event but it was packed. We got to see so many cool reptiles and Roonster really seemed interested in them. Even knew who a few were. Hopefully we can make it a family day up to the reptile farm one of these days.


Now for a few random photos from other stuff that was going on:


Always wear proper eye protection when attempting to enter the TV zone








Here Rooney is getting his first set of "sleeves"









Rooney really wanted me to take a picture of him and "Black Puppy"








On top of the world

Hoovsie Photo Montage

Don't Know How To Party

Rooney is really lucky. He has great parents who just love him to pieces, he has 2 little dogs that tolerate him and he can count his friends on at least 2 hands. All this already puts him ahead of most of the population but he also has alot of family that adore him immensely. Rooney's Aunt Annie, Uncle Jim and cousin Cuyler have frequently had little "prunes" (as they have lovingly referred to him since birth) as a visitor and overnight guest in their home. I have not really been able to focus too many blog posts on these events since I am not there, but I recently received some secret footage of the sleepover party train that is their night and I thought I should share. The video is a couple minutes long but a few things to look out for:

1. Rooney's new favorite blue shoes
2. Mr. Roonboto can actually pull off yellow pants, white socks with electric blue shoes
3. the Napoleon Dynamite like dance skills he exhibits
4. last but not least...the dulcet tones of the Howard/Hoover/Wade's singing (there are several examples in the one clip!)

Have You Met My Son Spewie?

The problem with not being able to blog as frequently is that so much happens in between posts that I forget some of the great things I wanted to blog about! I know there is a lesson in there. For instance, did I ever blog about when Cuyler asked Rooney and I to come to his school for "Special Person's" (or Grandparents) Day? Rooney and I were so touched! We had a nice time hanging out with Cuy (as Rooney calls him) at his school and meeting his friends and teacher. This happened way back in October but I got a copy of the pic we took this weekend so I thought I should mention it. Rooney loves Cuyler so much (and vice versa) I definitely wanted to touch on it.

Speaking of Cuyler (and the rest of the Hoovsie clan), Roonster spent the night over at their house this weekend. I'm sure he had a great time partying until dawn (this is a fact) but sometime around 4:30am he stopped having fun and started calling for "Momma's bed"! Poor Annie had to comfort him for about an hour before he fell back to sleep. Annie said when he woke up in the morning he acted like the weird, irrational, meltdown never happened. Chipper as a jaybird. I don't think Annie could say as much. When I picked him up later that afternoon he seemed really tired so I planned on immediately putting him down for a nap when we got home. Well less than 5min into the trip home, after drinking some juice, Rooney became Spewie McSpewerson and threw up twice in my car. We were all shocked and in tears after that. I called Mike and put him on standby for my arrival home.

Once I arrived home Mike got Rooney out of the car and we stripped him outside. Mike offered to spray him down with the hose but I got him in the bath instead. After a good tooth brushing, and putting on lounge wear it took about 1hr to finally get that kid to sleep. Add about 2 more hours to that and that is how long it took to clean my car out and Rooney's carseat. That carseat is still a puzzle yet to be completed! Anyway, that irrational early morning wake-up makes alot more sense now and he spent many hours on Momma's bed this morning.

Totally off the subject is something I am so amazed about with Rooney. He is really counting so well now. He can definitely count up to fourteen and recently he had shown that he can count up to five in Spanish. Cuatro is a bit difficult for him (but he misses 4 in English too so we just think it's a conspiracy against the number 4). I have a little video I took of him counting. It really doesn't show off his abilities but I kind of thought it was cute. As another side note, that is a "Robot house" that he is building in the video.