What's going to work?

The weather has turned and we have had some great days to enjoy the back yard.

 Matthew has mastered climbing the tree.

 and jumping off the rock.

 Alex notices that his big brother is doing something fun.

 and purposefully marches over to join in.

 two is trouble

 Alex gets a better look at the challenge ahead.

 Matthew goes first then amazingly

 turns around and offers to catch Alex.

 And even cushions the fall

Matthew turns 5

 On March 29th we had several kids over for Matthew's dinosaur themed birthday.

 The chaos begins.

 I had planned a dinosaur excavation in the sand box but the weather was crappy so we moved it to a box of packing peanuts in the garage.

 apparently the best technique was to dive right in, head first.

 And when you a re two the best fun is to just throw handfuls of them up in the air.

 The gift opening was a group effort.

 Then we headed outside to kill the T-rex Piñata.

 Alex was totally uninterested.

 group photo, serious cat herding

 cake and then shortly thereafter is was all over.  it was maniacal and next year will be much smaller.

 Dimetrodon from Auntie Kathy

 Ankylosaur also from Auntie

 Dinosaur family

Birthday Boy

The Easter Bunny is Coming!

Fun at Daddy's

 Alex's first selfie

 Just so happy

 Rocking out

 Not so happy.

 Our Engineer.

gymnastics Update

Last week Matthew moved up from gymsters to the 5-6 years old boys class.

There was no messing around and they got right to work.  The following pictures demonstrate how you start to teach a kid all those cool things you see on the Olympics.

They started on the rings.

 This one is the coolest.

 There were three boys in the class and they did a circuit.  So while one boy did the rings, one did this spider crawl , wall walk thing.

 And one did backwards somersaults.

 Then they went to the trampoline and started on backflips.

Topped off with a jumping high five.  From here they went to the parallel bars but they were waaay over in the back corner of the gym and we couldn't really see them.  Matthew LOVES this new class so it looks like Io will be spending a lot more time with the snotty mom's at the gym. :/