New 'Do

Cass had his first "professional" haircut this weekend. I've cut his hair several times, but the older he gets, the harder it is to get him to sit still, so I finally decided it was time to take him for a real haircut. He was SOOO good! We were shocked. He just sat completely still the whole time. As you can see in the picture, one of the ladies that worked there stood in front of him and blew bubbles, so that probably helped.

Here's an "after" picture - he's much less shaggy now. I think I will officially retire my scissors.

Church

Here's Cass on his way to church this morning. Now that he no longer takes a morning nap and flu season is over, we've started taking him to the nursery during church. Last week was the first week he went, and he did fairly well - he was really focused on all the new toys, and didn't realize we weren't there until about 40 minutes into the service, and then he started crying. When we took him today, we stayed with him for a few minutes until he got comfortable playing, but when we left he threw a fit. We stood outside the door to see if he calmed down, which he didn't, so we ended up going back in and spending the entire church service with him in the nursery. They had the service playing on a TV, but we didn't catch much of it. Hopefully after a few more weeks he'll get more comfortable being in the nursery without us - we'll keep trying!

21 Weeks

I'm over halfway there! Our baby girl is due in 19 weeks. Here's the latest belly photo.

March pics

I've been bad about posting to the blog this month. Here are a few pictures from a few weeks ago when Cass and the dogs were playing outside.

Imaginon

This morning Cass and I went to Imaginon, which is a Children's library in uptown Charlotte. First we went to storytime, which Cass loved, then he played in the play area for quite a while afterwards.

Here he is sitting outside a little play house. He took the dishes and some of the plastic fruit and veggies out of the play house and sat them on the floor outside the door. Poor little guy . . . he didn't understand that the food was plastic - he cried after trying to bite the banana and realizing it wasn't real!

Here he is playing with a theatre light switch that turns on the red and blue lights above the stage. And yes, the kids are allowed to play with the switches . . . I double checked!!

Charlotte has a trolley system in the uptown area (very similar to the San Francisco trolleys, but on wheels instead of tracks). The library has a mini-trolley that the kids can play in - here's Cass checking out the view through the "windows" of the trolley (which are really just pictures).

We had a fun time - they have the story times for his age group every Friday morning, so we'll definitely be back!

Are you sure we're not in Kansas anymore?

The weather has been crazy here lately! Last Sunday evening, we had the largest snow storm that Charlotte has seen in 6 years! Granted, it consisted of about 4 inches of snow, but that is rare here, especially in March. The flakes were huge - Cass had a good time watching the snow fall.

The picture below shows the view from our backyard that we woke up to Monday morning.

And here's our little guy holding a snowball that Daddy made. He doesn't know what to do with it.

Fortunately, by now the snow is gone and it's supposed to be around 80 degrees this weekend, so we're hoping spring is officially here to stay!

Trip to IKEA

The IKEA store in Charlotte opened recently, so today Cass and I decided to go check it out. He picked out these colorful bowls there, and prefers to use them as toys instead of eat out of them.

We also finally found something to store his toys in for the living room. It's been hard to find the perfect basket for his toys, because we need something that is short enough for him to reach the bottom, but tall enough that our two dogs (that seem to have never outgrown their puppy stage) won't get into it. I think we found the perfect basket at IKEA. Cass is so glad to have such easy access to his toys now. His latest thing is he picks up a toy, says "huh?" and shows it to me until I tell him what it is, then he picks up another toy and does the same thing, and continues until he has done this with everything in sight. Here's a taste of this -

Cass: "Huh?" Mommy: "Penguin"

Cass: "Huh?" Mommy: "Book"

Cass: "Huh?" Mommy: "Duck". (You get the picture . . .)