Spring Game 2012

The UNC Spring football game was on April 14th this year.  It was the same day as the Chapel Hill Garden Tour.  My mom, Deda, and I met up with my friend Amy for the tour in the morning.  I lugged my camera around all morning and didn't take a single picture.  I hate when I do that!  We saw some beautiful, inspiring gardens that were WAY out of my league.  This one was a favorite, but they were all amazing!

The last house we visited was on Gimghoul so we ladies only had to pop across the street to campus to meet up with the fellas (Charlie, Grandaddy, Arlo, Casey, and Gus) for some pre-game festivities.  It was such a gorgeous (GORGEOUS!) Spring day so we found a nice spot with some shade and some sun and some grass and just hung out for a while.

We played a little football...

Collected a few sticks and rocks...

 

...which we then gave to Grandma.

 

We sat in the lush green grass...

 Watched a little basketball...

 

 ...and dreamed of playing with the big boys some day.

 We had a picnic with Grandaddy and Grandeda.

 

Ate birthday cake in honor of Liz.

 Ate more cake.

 And a little more.

 After a lovely lunch al fresco, we headed into the stadium.  (Could the sky be any Carolina-bluer?)

Arlo was into watching the game for a good 3 minutes. 

Then, he discovered the seats.  Oh, the seats.  Look at that face.  Pure glee.

 

We also did lots of clapping.

 And some dancing.

And some more playing with the seats.  He could not get enough!

On the way out, we collected some more rocks for good measure.

Don't you love how, when you're one-and-a-half, whatever you're doing right now is the coolest thing ever?  Rocks,  basketball, cake, football, folding seats, more rocks ... it doesn't really matter what.  It's all the BEST. 

Here are a few more gems donated by Casey - a far more gifted photographer than I.  Obviously. 

 (Sweet, sweet Gus.  The poor thing was harassed by some actual angry birds the whole time he was there.  Here, I think Arlo was consoling him.)

 (That's my freshman year dorm in the background!)

 

What a perfect day.  

Love, Katie

The Cutest Caddy

Again, these pictures are from early April (I'm getting there!!!) but they are too cute not to share. 

 Arlo loves windchimes.  All of them.  But these are his favorite, because they are right at his level and just his size.

 He also got some new golf clubs from Grandma recently.

 He loves holding them and dragging them around and carrying them on walks around the neighborhood.

 

 

Off to the links!

 

 

He may be following in his Grandpa's footsteps with a love of golf!  Check out these skills!

- Katie

Meetup

We had a great time at this playground in Durham with some of the women from my Meetup group.  On this particular day, there were a lot of older kids that Arlo LOVED playing with.  The little boy playing with him in sand box was so super sweet and patient and showed Arlo how to make a sand castle (which he promptly knocked over).

 Sandboxes are always a big hit with my boy!

 As are colorful playhouses like this one.  He must have opened the door, gone inside, closed the door, then come out about a billion times in a row.

Not my best camera work (I've noticed Arlo has started ignoring me when I break out the camera...it's now much harder to get shots of his smiley face!) but wanted to share these anyway.  

-Katie

Baby's First Popsicle

It was a big hit!  (Are you surprised?)

 But my sweet little sharing boy was even willing to give Roscoe a taste.

 And then promptly snatched it right back.

 And proceeded to completely ignore Roscoe as if he weren't staring down that fruit popsicle like it was a ham bone.  What a weird dog.  :)

- Katie

Back in action

Is anyone still out there?  I realize it's been over a month since my last post.  If any of you are still checking in (I hope you are!), I will try to get caught up over the next few weeks.  These pics are from April 1st (almost 2 months ago - whoa!) and were taken at Caroline, Matt, and Gigi's house on the same day as the Easter Egg Hunt in my last post.  

We had a great time hanging out in their awesome backyard! 

 

 Gigi has a super cool water table that was a HUGE hit. 

Unfortunately, Mama didn't bring a change of clothes, so once Arlo was soaked through, Gigi was kind enough to loan him her adorable surf shirt.  :)

 Gigi's pink car was a big hit.  

 I think it must have had a blown spark plug or something because my little mechanic worked on it for a long time.   

 Looks like he found some junk in the trunk!

Since we wanted to return Gigi's cute shirt, this is what the ride home looked like.

 

I'd say that this little boy was pretty worn out - what a fun day!

 

-Katie

Happy Easter!

These pics are actually from an Easter egg hunt that we attended on Saturday the weekend before Easter (I had to work on Easter. Booh.)  

 We tagged along with our friends, Lauren and Kai, to their neighborhood's Easter celebration.  (Incidentally, it's not the first time we've crashed a party with them.)

Arlo LOVED his Easter basket.  He pretty much wouldn't let go of it for a week or so before and after Easter.  It has held eggs, bubbles, rocks, crayons, cars, and has now been mostly forgotten in the corner of the family room full of chalk.

 On this particular day, it also served as a lovely hat.

 I couldn't coax any smiles from these two during this pic.  But keep in mind, this was snapped shortly after their encounters with the Easter bunny, so they may have been still trying to figure out what that was all about.

 Preparing for the start of the 2- to 4-year-old egg hunt (we had to break out the fake ID...he was only 17 months).

 The hunt was over in less than 5 minutes.  Maybe less than 3.  It was fast! 

 

 

 I was so proud of my boy for snagging three whole eggs!  ;) 

 

 It would have been four if it weren't for the seemingly parentless pre-teen who swooped out of nowhere to snatch a cheap plastic egg filled with crappy candy from a toddler.  (Grrr....)  But it's all good.  Look how excited he is!!!

A few days later, Arlo's school had another one and then he went to a THIRD in downtown Durham with his daddy, Grandma, and Aunt Allie.  That time he only got one egg, but I am told he could have gotten 50 if he'd wanted to, but he chose to fill his basket with rocks instead.  Future geologist, right?

 I hope you all had a wonderful Easter and got all the eggs you could ever want.  ;)

-Katie