St. Patrick's Day

Every St. Patrick's Day we head up to Grandma Spear's for corn beef and cabbage and listen to the bag pipers from the fire department. What a fabulous tradition. I was happy when we decided to move back to Spokane just in time for this fun holiday.

Nixon and Jon watching the bag pipers.

Nixon was a little heater outside in the chilly night.

Nixon really liked watching the band, it was so cute!

All in green!! You can't pinch us!

Grandma Spear got a new puppy, Daisy. She is a french mastiff and is already as big as our Gauge and only 14 weeks old. Nixon thought it was fun to tease her while she was outside and we were inside. When the bag pipers came playing down the walkway into the backyard Daisy took off and hide in the very back corner of the yard. Jon had to go back there and get her after it was all over, poor little thing was pretty scared.

Nixon turned 7 months this past month and is a moving machine. Although he can't crawl yet, he is sure thinking about it. But can get around pretty good without crawling yet. He loves to blab and sing along with me as I sing to him. He also likes to flip over as soon as you put him on the changing table, this is not so fun for changing diapers, especially dirty ones. He is now sitting up by himself, put still tips over when he isn't thinking about it. He has his first real cold right now and we took him to the doctor and he has a mild ear infection too. Poor little guy... I hate it when babies are sick. He weighed in at 19 pounds 11 oz. at the doctor.

The other day he had rolled himself up in this blanket all by himself.

He is so easily entertained too. He loves these bigger boxes of cereal from Costco. They are his new drums!

And of course when Nixon is snuggling with us he has my "foot rubbing curse" as Jon likes to think of it. My whole family does it when we are relaxing, and so does Nixon. How cute is that!

Gauge and Darby are enjoying the BIG yard at Gramma and Pompa's. Gauge liked eating the snow, it was so funny to watch. He would be running and then stop and take a bit. Yum!

Darby liked jumping around and playing with a toy, by herself of course. She didn't want either of us to throw it for her. She could do it on her own.

Funny Dogs!

A video of the bag pipers on St. Patty's day.