A bygone birthday

Ten days ago Nina joined the 5 year-old club. We even celebrated it. She had a low key party where she and a few friends decorated cupcakes and made valentines. The thing I liked the best was the fact that she invited 2 nine year-old girls who pretty much rocked. They supervised the younger girls during the crafts while I cleaned up messes, got new crafts ready and what not. We had a crazy cousin party for all the January and February birthdays (6). We put together a scavenger hunt to find her stash of presents. We got her the obligatory Krispy Kremes and we took her to get her ears pierced. I think we did a fair job celebrating. We even let her wear this out in public.












I am reassuring myself that I'm not completely forgetful, just sort of. We did a lot of fun things for Nina's birthday, I just forgot to put up a post about it. And I forgot to make her a birthday cake. And I forgot to take a picture of her newly pierced ears. And I forgot to make her the birthday dinner she requested. That might be all.

Basketball fans

Having a baby in January had 2 disadvantages that I want to complain about. The first is that Rex was more susceptible to getting RSV. Check. The second is that it would make it really hard for me to attend some cool basketball games. Check. But Matt and the boys got to enjoy some games in January.

Matt, Donovan and Howie met my brother Chris and his two boys and ventured down to Colorado Springs to watch BYU have a little fun with Air Force.





Of course Jimmer was the highlight of the evening. I was told the boys gave Jimmer a high five, but I think Matt was a little slow on the click.




Matt is going to be slightly disappointed with this part of the post because I can't remember 2 key pieces of information.
1. Who the Nuggets played
2. Which Nugget player's sweaty headband Howie caught



A super-nice couple invited Howie to stand in front of their seats so he could reach the players as they walked into the locker room. He got to give Nene a high five.




Those were some pretty sweet seats guys. Go team!

Brothers

We gathered our 4 boys together for a few snaps.






And they graciously allowed Nina to sit in on one shot.

Celebrating 1 month

Rex wasn't feeling too good over the weekend and on Monday we ended up taking him to the ER. Turns out the little guy had RSV. After a couple of days in the hospital, he looked and sounded a ton better. Aside from that little episode, the past month has been quite enjoyable as we bond with our new baby.