Monday, April 7, 2008

March Madness Comes To An End

I am watching the NCAA championship game out of the corner of my eye as I post tonight. Tyler was sleeping by 8:30 PM tonight (an amazing feat for us!) Brian and Drew are "watching" the game. More accurately, Brian is trying to watch the game while dodging Drew's spit up...actually more exciting to watch than any basketball game. :o)

As most of you know, Brian loves NCAA March Madness! So, a lot of the past month has been spent following college basketball. We went to the Knapp Center to watch the Selection Show with the Drake Bulldogs and then watched their first round game on television. This photo was obviously taken before their disappointing last-second loss to Western Kentucky.

Our family took an impromptu mini-vacation to Michigan for the third and fourth rounds of the NCAA tournament with my friend Laura. Laura had Davidson connections and was able to get our family some seats in the Davidson section for the game against Kansas. Despite all of Tyler's cheering, Davidson wasn't able to get past Kansas. It was a very fun game to watch and Drew cooperated by sleeping in his sling from the national anthem until the final buzzer. We also visited the science center and zoo while we were in Detroit.

We attended a few Easter egg hunts earlier in March. Tyler is a pretty big fan of any activity that ends with eating chocolate! The boys posed with the Easter Bunny at the preschool egg hunt.


Grandma & Grandpa Carlson attended Easter service with us at Hope on Saturday night. Brian wasn't feeling well on Sunday, so I took the boys to Stratford to spend the day with G&G and great grandma Alice.

Tyler was excited to find a pair of red Lightning McQueen shoes in his Easter basket. He is quite enthralled with anything related to the Cars movie right now.

Drew is growing, growing, growing. He was 24 1/4 inches long and just shy of 14 lbs at his 2 month appointment. He smiled for the first time on March 2nd and flashes us several big smiles each day. He is sleeping 8 hours straight each night...lucky us!


Well, Kansas won...time to go to bed.