Spring is starting to arrive - The trees have started to turn green, the flowers are starting to bloom, and Lathan is starting to get spring fever! I have always said that you are such an outdoor boy and it is so true - the minute it starts to warm up, you are ready to be outside. You want to be at the park, on the swing set, on a nature walk, riding your jeep, playing basketball, and playing baseball. I am really happy to see that and we definitely encourage that also - there is no reason to waste beautiful days by being indoors watching television or playing on the iPad. You will be playing t-ball with a few preschool buddies this summer (Oh my gosh, I CAN NOT WAIT to watch you out there playing!!!!! I am SOOOO EXCITED!) Anyhow, you will be playing t-ball BUT you think that you are too big to hit off a tee - you always make daddy pitch to you. You are really good though and can usually always hit most of his pitches - we keep trying to explain to you that "Tball" isn't for babies and you will have to use the tee when you play this summer. We also have tried to explain that you do not throw the bat as hard as you can when you hit AND you do not throw the ball at your friends as an attempt to get them out. (This should be an interesting t-ball league.) :)

Spring Break was last week and your daycare and preschool was closed; you did not seem to mind at all though - that just meant a whole lot of time with Mama! The Monday of Spring Break you actaully woke up with a fever and a bad cough so I stayed home from work with you, the next two mornings you came with Mommy to work and then we went home in the afternoons, and Thursday and Friday - Daddy and Mama were both off and we did fun things! Thursday we went to the Zoo and played and then went to Potwin Pottery. That is a pretty cool place - you choose the ceramic that you want to paint and then you decorate it however you'd like. A week later, you get it back and it has been glazed, baked, and polished. You (of course) chose a T-Rex; we spent a lot of time painting it blue, re-painting it green, giving it spots, painting over the spots, and giving it spots again. At one point, Daddy got a little frustrated and told you that we were not going to paint the entire dinosaur again.... "Daddy, this is my day." HA! You told him! Daddy just laughed and said "You are right - let's paint him again." Friday of Spring Break, we headed to Wichita! It was Uncle David's "Match" ceremony - this was the day that he found out where he will be headed for his residency. During the ceremony, Daddy took you and the girls to an Exploration Museum- he said that place was AMAZING and so incredibly huge. While you were there, we found out that Uncle David made his number one match at Barnes-Jewish/Washington St. Louis for anesthesiology. Although I am so sad to see him and Aunt Sheena move farther away - this is an amazing opportunity for them and St. Louis has a lot of really cool things for us to do when we visit. We spent the rest of the day just hanging out at their apartment - you were exhausted so we headed home around 6.

Another really fun thing we got to do recently was to go to The University of Kansas Natural History Museum - Poppy and Auntie have taken you there before but Daddy and Mama had not gotten the chance to go. That place was amazing too! They had a lot of dinosaur fossils - you were in awe of them. It is still so shocking to see how much you know... you were telling us about all of the dinosaurs and you know SO much about all of them too! Speaking of that, you also surprised the heck out of Mama the other night....you started talking about the solar system. "Venus is the hot planet, it has volcanoes on it." "Mercury is the smallest." "Mars is the red planet - It has two moons." " Uranus lies on its side." "We live on Earth." "Saturn has rings." "Jupiter is the biggest planet." I am ashamed to admit this but I did have to google these things to make sure you were right...AND YOU WERE! Good Lord, you are a GENIUS!!!

Last night Mama was trying to get you to eat your vegetables and I told you that if you do not eat them, you will never get big. Without missing a beat, you said "That's fine...you want me to stay small anyhow." Dang kid, you out-smart me every time.