Marchness

This month Nathan sold his baby.

I was relieved that we found a sucker to buy it.

Hahaha. Ü I'm kidding. It's a good bike and we sold it to Nathan's BIL Matt. So it's still in the family and maybe Nathan can visit it every other weekend if he pays child support. I told Matt if he gets in a wreck, he better not die. Because then I would feel really, really bad (and it is all about my feelings). Then Matt said my instructions conflicted with the strict instructions his wife gave him. I believe---roughly translated---she said something to the effect that if you're gonna wreck, you better die. Because you're worth more dead than disabled. Ha..ha..ha...?

We have been having beautiful weather this month, so lots of outside time for Deacon. Nathan *cough*overachiever*cough* took Deacon to 3 different parks in 2 days! Well, I sure showed him by taking D to the library (haha) and then a new park across the street from it. A lady showed up with her kid and a dog. Deacon loved the dog, but it had no boundaries! It kept jumping on him and knocking him to the ground. I kept hinting to the lady, "My what a BIG dog" or "Wow, he sure is playful (read:hyper)." I think she finally picked up what I was putting down because then she said that it wasn't her dog, it just followed her to the park.

Before Deacon would play on the playground, he had to go around to each of the six basketball courts and point to the basket saying, "Hoo-hoo-hoop ball?" And then when he got to one that didn't have a net he said, "Uh-oh."

The only pants that are long enough for his legs are too big in the waist!

So we reached a record "heat wave" for March last Saturday and it got up to 74 degrees.....and then it promptly snowed two days later and we've been freezing ever since.

Nathan had Spring Break during the week of the ninth. We went to the open house for the new Draper Temple. The only other open house I've been to was the one for the Las Vegas Temple a looooong time ago, so I kept wondering when they were going to pass out the little booties to put over your shoes. Apparently they don't do that anymore.

We met at a church at the bottom of a hill where they showed a short video about the purpose of temples. Then they had tour buses take us up the hill to the temple. After walking around inside there were cookies and juice in a separate building with lots of beautiful paintings of Christ and different temples. Then more buses to take us back down the hill. Deacon has been obsessed with buses lately (a school bus pulls in front of our neighbor's house everyday at 8:20 and he always runs to the window to wave), so he loved his first time riding on a bus. Or maybe he just loved the cookie? There was a lady with a baby sitting next to us on the bus. She happened to have one of those really soft blankets (blee-bleeze) that Deacon LOVES, so he kept reaching over and "petting" it.

We also had the "Week of the Headband" this month (I just made that name up). We were going for a walk one Sunday afternoon, so I decided to play a joke. I grabbed one of my sweatbands and had it tight across the middle of my forehead and was sporting a wicked side ponytail. Nathan glanced up at me.....and said nothing! As we headed outside, I paused and said, "Um, are you really going to let me go out looking like this? We have to live in this neighborhood!!" He honestly didn't see a problem. I am now second guessing every outfit I've ever worn where I asked him if it looked okay.

Deacon saw the NBA insignia on the sweatband and says "hoop ball" when he wears it. He also likes to put it on our heads. Sure, he's embarrassed for himself, but not for me?Deacon's new thing is to slide down the stairs on his belly, face first. He thinks it is soooo fun. Nathan decided it would be even more fun to slide down in a sleeping bag.
Let's just say all 200+ pounds of Nate is hard to stop on a dime, so "thank goodness" the wall was there to help slow him down.
In other news, Deacon likes to eat raw butter and sleep standing up. But that's a whole other story for his blog!