Weekend Recap: St. Patrick's Day Festivities

I think I work too much.  :(  It's so frustrating having to do hours of work at night to stay on top of things!  It doesn't help that it is only 1 doctor and me this week!  I'm just tired, but I'll stop complaining now.  Our Friday night and Saturday morning were essentially a repeat of last weekend.   Guess who made 10 friends while "rawing" on the wall with chalk??

We had a fun weekend celebrating St. Patrick's Day.  This isn't one of the holidays I get extremely excited about, but as I know I've mentioned before, Ben makes all holiday celebrations better!   It was a little chillier than we would have liked, but we decided to check out the St. Patrick's Day parade on Saturday afternoon.  Benji looks bored and cold in these pictures, but he was actually loving life with his stickers and green beads.

Fortunately, my cousin's restaurants had some heaters on outside, so we hung out there until we were invited to ride on the shuttle bus in the parade!  There were a bunch of kids throwing candy out the window, and my favorite little leprechaun wanted to join in the fun.  It took a bit of encouragement to get him to actually let go of the candy.  He quickly learned that it was better to keep the candy for himself, which was probably better for everyone since he was dropping the candy versus throwing it.  I was afraid we were going to drive over some fingers!

We kept the green fun going on Sunday morning with some green pancakes.  Ben sure loves to cook with daddy.  He also loves the Lucky Charm charms.  Smarty.  

On Sunday afternoon, Andy and I went to our first "Love and Logic" parenting class.  We didn't really know what to expect, but we were pleasantly surprised.  We topped off our night with a visit from one of my bffs, Maggie!  After Ben flirted with her for a bit, Maggie and I went out for dinner and some quality girl talk!  The perfect way to end a weekend. :)

Last, but not least, a Benji school update.  Week 5 was a success!  My mom dropped him off, and there were a few whimpers, but NO TEARS!  (Maybe just some happy tears for me!)  He didn't want to do the art project but he ATE LUNCH and did a lot of playing!  Somehow, he got his teachers to give him 2 nuks for his stroller nap, but he was good about putting them away for play time.  :)  Unfortunately there was a problem with the water at school, so they had to close early.  But fortunately, this meant lunch #2 for Ben at Culver's.  Here's hoping that next week is even better!

He had a great 18 month pediatrician visit today!  I could not love this kid more than I do!