Beginning of March and St. Patrick's Day

Carter has some obsession with getting into baskets.  He loves to sit in them, no matter how big or how small.  He also LOVES to look at books.  So from the looks of this picture he was having the perfect morning!

 Cute bedtime smile

 In the beginning of March we started some of our plants for our garden indoors.  Ethan was helping get the tomato plant ready to go (we got one of those upside down hanging ones to save space).

 Ethan flashing his green tongue after his St. Patty's day breakfast

 Carter enjoying his Lucky Charms

 We had church that morning, so Ethan made sure to pick out a tie that had green on it.

 At lunch we had a fruit rainbow and a veggie rainbow.  Ethan especially liked the "cloud" and the "gold".  Go figure!

 After dinner we had Shamrock shakes.

 Yummy!

January and February Silliness

Here are some silly moments we captured in January and February:

Enjoying an Oreo after dinner

 The aftermath from our spaghetti dinner

 Ethan likes to try to take pictures with the camera and sometimes does a pretty good job!  Here's one he caught of Tristan doing dinner clean-up.

One afternoon Ethan disappeared and we couldn't figure out where he was...this is where Tristan found him:

 Look at this cute boy!

One night Ethan crawled into Carter's high chair.  Apparently he wanted to relive his baby days!

 This was Carter's self portrait. Tristan aimed and Carter pushed the button.  Tristan is raising a couple of shutter bugs!

A Visit to the Seattle Aquarium

I have jokingly dubbed January, February and most of March of 2013 the "lost months" because I was so very sick at the beginning of my pregnancy.  So we really didn't do much.  But at the beginning of January (before the sickness really hit) we headed up to visit the Seattle Aquarium.  Ethan has always loved aquariums and fish tanks and we figured it would be a good indoor activity for the rainy, cold winter days.

Checking out the starfish at the entrance

 Carter exploring what this glass is all about and the fish behind it, too!

 The touch tanks were a huge hit (which actually surprised me when it came to Carter)!

 At the underwater dome watching the fish

We stopped to take a picture on the sea otter bench...I thought this was fun...

This one was from a little over two years ago when we were here visiting my parents on vacation

 This one was from this trip...funny that I'm wearing the same coat!  Comparisons like this make me recognize the blessings of our growing family!

Ethan really has a thing for Orcas right now, so he had fun watching the videos, looking at the Orca skeletons and posing on this Orca replica at the Orca exhibit.

 Checking out the blowfish at the North Pacific exhibit

 We had to stop by the touch tank for round 2 of exploring!

 My littlest jellyfish!

 Carter liked these jellyfish images being projected onto the floor and had fun exploring his shadow.

 My big jellyfish!

It was a fun day and I'm glad the boys enjoyed the trip so much!