Golf Quote

I can't believe I forgot to include this one in my last entry. While watching the Masters golf tournament Spencer said, "Daddy, I want to play in this tournament someday." Then a few seconds later, just before Daddy's head exploded, "If you hit the ball in the sand does that mean you get to go in there and play?"

Fun Age

Having a preschooler makes life so fun. I love seeing the wonder and magic of the world through Spencer's eyes. I get such a kick out of seeing him curious and excited about so many things. For example, last night when we were leaving a restaurant he excitedly pointed out a flashing arrow sign.  I mean we take flashing arrow signs for granted all the time, right? And they're pretty. A nice reminder to slow down and take a look around.

A few recent things I want to remember:

• Everything happened "2 weeks ago."
• "Mommy, I love you as I love to eat oatmeal. Amen."
• "You smell good! Why are you so smelly, Mommy?"
• When I was preparing for my recent band concert, we listened to a CD of the music we were going to play - a lot! Spencer loved it, especially Peter Gunn. The first time he heard it he said (in a very sly voice), "I can tell I'm gonna like this one..." And now every time we play it in the car he says, "Can you start it over because I REALLY like this." Watching him conduct the music makes me a happy camper.
• When he won a yo-yo that ended up being broken: "Well Daddy, I guess it's your broken yo-yo now. It's not stable enough for me."

Also memorable but in a different way... Spencer busted out with his first curse word recently. I didn't want to make a big deal of it, but I wanted to know where he heard it. I said, "Spencer, you're not in trouble, but that's just not a nice word and we shouldn't say it. Where did you hear it?" Well, turns out he heard it from Mommy (a long time ago, he said)! Another proud parenting moment... He said it in front of Geep last week, but he hasn't said it since then, other than to tell me he's not going to say that word anymore. Of course, when he tells me that, he says the word! Stinker.

Yard Sale Crafting

Yesterday morning we all went to breakfast at Kerbey Lane. On the way home we saw signs for a yard sale down the street, so Spencer and I walked down there to inspect the goods. We bought a big tub of construction paper, a birdhouse kit (Spencer's idea) and a salad spinner. Yep, a good old fashioned salad spinner. I've been meaning to get one to do an art project - sort of a homemade version of the cool spin art we would do at the fair when I was little.

We had so much fun with spin art that we did it again this morning. Now to figure out how to display them... 

Today Daddy and Spencer assembled the birdhouse we bought. Spencer was so careful hammering the nails and did a great job.

They painted a base coat and then later when Piper was over visiting she helped them with their camouflage paint technique. It came out really cute and now we have a sweet little birdhouse in our yard - along with some "bird duplexes" that Paw-Paw gave us recently.

Other than a party we went to Saturday evening, the weekend was unstructured and slow. I love these kinds of weekends!

Smashing Cascarones

Just realized I never posted this video of Spencer trying to smash a cascarón mid-air at Geep and Pop's on Easter afternoon. Love his determination!

Flippin' Pancakes

Spencer has been helping me in the kitchen for a long time but today was definitely a milestone. He was in charge of flipping the pancakes! He was very proud of his work. The only downside is I have a feeling we're going to be eating a lot of pancakes around here...

Drummer Boy

Spencer was in heaven playing this electronic drum kit at Strait Music today.

Day at the Museum

On Tuesday, Spencer said he wanted to go to the Texas Memorial Museum on the UT campus. If you've never been there, you should put it on your list - it's an interesting museum with lots of fossils, dinosaurs, gems & minerals, and a working paleontology lab. And it's free! It was closed for several months for renovations, so this is the first visit in awhile. Here are a couple of fun pictures Dave sent me because I was really missing my boys and wanted to be tuned into what they were up to.

Easter P.S.

Geep and Pop's church posted some Easter photos on their Facebook page. This one cracks me up!

Easter Recap

We had a busy Easter weekend with 3, count 'em, 3 Easter egg hunts. We went to Columbus on Saturday to Ken and Lisa's farm. There was lots of fishing, exploring, eating and of course egg hunting.

 

  

 

 

From there we drove to San Antonio. The Easter Bunny left Spencer clues on Geep's camera that led him to his Easter basket.

 

 

 

We went to church for breakfast then Spencer got to take part in another egg hunt. He still wasn't very interested in his candy. He took a few bites of his chocolate bunny but pretty much left the rest of the candy untouched.

 After church services we took a few family pics.

While Daddy and Pop watched the Masters after lunch, Spencer and I played with the neighbor kids for a bit, then we hid cascarones with Geep (I guess that makes 4 egg hunts!). We got back to Austin around 7:30 or 8:00 and managed to transfer a sleeping boy from the car to his bed. He was exhausted after a full weekend with family and friends.

Eggceptional

We had a fun time dyeing Easter eggs this afternoon. Looking forward to Easter festivities this weekend!

 

 

Three Point Five

Happy half-birthday, Spence!

Orange and White Game

We went to the Texas Longhorns spring scrimmage on Sunday for the second year in a row. Last year when we arrived, we got to see Bevo coming out of his trailer. This year we saw Brent Musburger!

I didn't realize Spencer was doing the "McConaughey-style" Hook 'Em (i.e., facing backwards) in our family pic..

Ken and Sarah met us at the stadium and the kids had fun together looking at Bevo, checking out the action on the field (for about 1 minute), running up and down the steps, and trying to cover their ears just in time for the loud cannon shots.

  

Spencer took this shot of sweet Sarah

Before the scrimmage, the school dedicated a new statue of Ricky Williams. Later we saw Ricky and Early Campbell on the field. Spencer was in the presence of living legends. 

Weekend at Pine Fork

The boys went to the ranch Friday afternoon to hang out with Geep and Pop. I joined them Saturday morning. This is what I saw when I drove in -  Spencer and Geep on a nature walk:

This was followed by a lunch and a little fishing.

After Pop and Geep left Saturday afternoon, we ventured out to the south pasture for some (sweaty)bluebonnet photos. Our budding photographer got in on the action behind the camera - he snapped the one of Dave and me.

Then we cooked burgers and ate dinner on the porch. Fun day!

The next morning, Daddy and Spencer took a padddle boat ride before we closed up the ranch and headed back to Austin to go to the spring scrimmage at DKR stadium. More on that later...