Holy Cow, It's March Already

Things are busy, to say the least, around the LemonDrop. Parie is minding the boy four days out of the week, and then trying to finish the plans for the addition on my day of Daddy Day Care as well as during nap times and such. And I've been inundated with loads of work that has taken my eye off of blogging of late. Oh, and it's tax season and we've been prepping an application for a refinancing to fund the coming addition... and we need to get some things figgered out for the big birthday weekend that is fast approaching. So yeah, things are a little crazy.

Here are some quick updates followed by recent pics:

• Went down to Portland a couple weekends back and had a great time with Tutu and Tomtom, as well as had a great time with various and sundry guests at all the meals. Also got a chance to visit our pals Adam and Korey and check out how their kids Owen and Amelia are doing (Amelia liked putting her feet in my goatee).
  
  
• Sofian has graduated from just a GI Joe crawl to full-on hands-and-knees crawling (though he can go between the two pretty easily). He's also getting pretty fast.
  
  
• New teeth are coming in on the bottom, slowly but surely, so soon Sofian will have eight teeth in total (four on top, four on the bottom).
  
  
• The boy is starting to pick up some habits from his old man, which aren't very endearing. Sofian is starting to get a little picky with his eating habits, refusing vegetables for the most part. We've resorted to trying to hide some veg within fruit purees as well as yogurt, but it hasn't been completely successful.
  
  
• We're losing one of our PEPS pals -- Henry and his parents Beth and Pete are leaving Seattle for Kansas City. We'll be saying goodbye to them this week.
  

And now, for a cavalcade of pics:



Jeff and Kim visited with Ellie the other afternoon, and Jeff was showing off his block-building prowess to Sofian -- who left nothing stand.



Henry stopped by for awhile last week as well, while his Mom did some prep work for the move. Unfortunately, Sofian napped during all of Henry's visit, but they'll get a chance to play again this Wednesday.



Sofian got a great new hat and a pair of pants as an early birthday present from Anne, Eric, Mari and Clara. Here are the two boys showing off their hats.



A snap of Tutu and Sofian from the recent Portland visit.



And finally, the boy on the swings (again), taking advantage of some of the great weather we've been having this month in Seattle.