Titus turns 5

Titus chose a batman cake for his birthday. He also went with an outside water slide theme, but added a pinata.

First Day of School

It was a big year as Silas started 1st grade and Titus started kindergarten. They were both SO excited and still enjoy school a lot!

Off on their own adventures

Silas and Titus got very special opportunities over Memorial Day weekend to go on adventures with grandparents. Silas headed off to Ohio with Grandma Joyce & Papa to see grandma's parents. He was beyond spoiled, and I think Grandma & Papa even had a little fun too.

 Reading to Great-Grandma...

Helping great-grandpa on the farm...

Uncle Ryan and Aunt Wendy came up for a visit, too...

And they all went to Reds' game, where I think they bought Silas a food item every inning...

 

Topped it off with a trip to Graeter's ice cream...

...and multiple playgrounds!

Meanwhile, Titus headed to Lakeview with Grandma Kaye & Grandpa Dave to see Grandpa's parents. He was a good helper around the yard and also got to do some fun things...

 

4 years old!

We celebrated Titus' birthday with a little party at the fire station. He even got to ride in the front seat of the fire truck!

First Day of School

Silas and Titus were both very excited about the start of school this week.

Ty is going to preschool where Silas went last year. He can't seem to "bamember" anything that happened on his first day but he did say he wanted to go back. On the second day he reported that they played "sharks and minerals."

Silas, on the other hand, couldn't stop talking about all the things he did at kindergarten. His only big disappointment was that he didn't get to ride the bus. 

Opposites Attract

I recently came across this draft of a post I started over a year ago about the differences between Silas and Titus... so these first two memories are from a year ago but they are really funny:


Silas (yelling from downstairs): "Mom, I need my blankie!!"
Titus (talking to himself): "Where my blankie? Oh, upstairs. I get it."


Silas: "Mom, I need some toast!"
Titus: runs to the bathroom, gets stool, carries it to the kitchen, climbs up on the counter and retrieves a banana. "I got a na-na!"

I was also spending some time lately going through old blog posts and reminiscing. I was amazed at how the boys' personalities came out even at a very young age. In this post I came across from when Silas was less than 3 months old, I laughed at how even THEN his "serious" face was his most common. He still is a very serious boy, and very concerned about knowing what's going to happen, when it's going to happen, and why it's going to happen. In another post from when he was 10 months old, I put a picture of him snuggling his blanket. Up until a couple months ago when he gave up the thumb sucking, he would look exactly like this!

At 6 months old, Titus was already getting into everything, and my post from 8 months also shows that he was already climbing everywhere and enjoying anything that makes lots of noise! He still is the louder one, and not at all intimidated to try new things. Silas will approach most new things very cautiously, while Titus will rush headlong into it, then stop to assess the situation.

I've highlighted their differences before, and all the way back here I could see the little people they were becoming. Even though they are opposite in a lot of ways, they play super well together, and come up with some really crazy, imaginative games. I can't imagine what either of them would be like without the other!

Another birthday boy!

Since Titus has been 3 for almost a month now I figured I had better get blogging about it!

Titus flip flopped daily on what kind of cake he wanted. I would ask him what he would like and he would look around the room and then say, "Umm... a chair!" or whatever object came into sight. We finally settled on a number 3 and decorated it like a race track with some cars. He seemed to enjoy it.

 

 

We got on Skype so he could talk to Aunt Wendy in Kentucky during the party....

When he opened her present, and found 3 dollar bills, he immediately counted them and then shouted, "that's just like me!"

When you ask him how old he is, he will say that he's three "and then I be four and go to preschool!" Always trying to keep up with big brother.

1,000 words about Spring

2,000 words

What is this white stuff?

We woke up yesterday morning to a blanket of snow on the ground... which doesn't happen very often around these parts. We were mesmerized.

The boys immediately headed out to play.

 

And eat.

The snow all melted away with the afternoon sun, then came back again in the evening.... and back out they went. They shoveled off the whole patio in 10 minutes. Somebody should put that skill to good use!

 

Of course, warming up with hot chocolate afterward was a highlight.

Everything looks prettier with a blanket of snow...