We're in MARCH!

The sun is out, the trees are blowing, we're sneezing due to allergies and I think we're done with the cold weather in our area.

It's Read Across America Week and Dr. Seuss' birthday week at Ian's school. With that it's Spirit Week as well, so on Monday Ian was able to wear his favorite hat. He chose his West Raleigh hat. On Tuesday he could dress up as his favorite book character. He didn't really do this, but claims he went as a NC State fan. On Wednesday it was crazy hair day, so I pull gel in the little amount of hair he has on his head. Today is wear green day, so I pulled out a green t-shirt from last year.

Ian has been into writing letters to the student athletes at NC State lately. He asked them some great questions and also praised them. I've been impressed. He worked on fractions when he was in bed one night. Wow!

Gavin got to wear his pjs yesterday to school to celebrate Dr. Seuss. The kids looked so cute. He wanted to wear one set of pajamas, but then when it was time to get dressed he told me he wasn't going to participate. UGH! A little bribery worked and off we went to school.

Since Gavin gets out at 12:15 and Wednesdays are my short days at work I decided to take Gavin and his good friend, Connor, to the movies. We saw Gnomeo and Juliet...a very cute movie. I'm looking forward to April because there are a lot of good movies coming out for kids! I actually didn't mind the previews in the theater.

The big news of the week came on Monday night with the baseball draft for West Raleigh. Ian was drafted by the Riverdogs. It's really hard to put the Scrappers behind us since we completely bonded with some awesome families in the fall. But, it's now Riverdog time. As Ian's former coach said...Once a Scrapper...always a Scrapper. My friend, Mia, and I are calling the teams the Scrapdogs to combine both! Ian had such an awesome tryout experience and he has improved so much. He's tall, athletic, lefty, great hitter/fielder, great work ethic, great baseball age...wonderful qualities for a baseball player! We're definitely looking forward to the season. Ian starts this Saturday for practice. I'll be keeping the books during the games and Cailean is able to help coach.

Gavin kicks off his soccer season this Saturday morning. We opted to play soccer over t-ball this season. He'll do West Raleigh in the fall. He is really excited to go back onto that soccer field this weekend. GO AVALANCHE!