All things Cutler
Today we took the grandparents to try out our new favorite BBQ joint, Lockharts, and was terribly surprised first by Mason feeling a loose tooth after a bite of rib and then proceeding to reach in with his fingers and tear it out. The next surprise was Cutler demolishing the ribs. As he is almost exclusively a chicken guy, we were extremely shocked when he said he wanted a rib and then even more shocked when he went after a second one.
With Chewy in town for a visit, Rookie sadly takes second seat for the kids’ attention. We tried Rookie in the vehicles as well but he is just a bit too big.
Despite the celebration starting last week at Cutler’s school, today was Cutler’s actual birthday. He started the morning off with grandma taking him out for donuts, followed by a shopping spree at toys-r-us courtesy of the spoiling grandparents, then a couple hours of video games with me and Mason, and finally taking in a Stars overtime loss in a suite courtesy of the Dallas Stars. He’s obviously a bit spoiled, but given all he has been through and considering that 4 1/2 years ago we weren’t even sure if we would see him hit five years old, he is worth every bit of his rottenness followed by his incredible loving heart.
With Cutler’s birthday falling in spring break every year, his birthday celebration tends to take on quite the celebration over multiple weeks. This past Friday was his celebration at school where he was more than proud to wear the special birthday hat.
As I am struggling to find anything to post, validated by the last several days’ weak attempts to continue to my daily post streak, I figured it is time to return to our Disney cruise from this past December. One of our ports of call was Nassau and we chose to visit Atlantis so that we could play with the dolphins. Our first dolphin was pregnant and overly moody, so they had to bring in a second dolphin half way through. I wish I could tell you which one is which in the pictures, but you know what they say about dolphins… Ok, they don’t really say that, but it’s a good excuse for me to not name them. I do believe the stand in was a young male, maybe two years old, named Menus. No idea what the old bat’s name was. Alas, it was a great experience and one that I would probably rate near the top of the trip.
I’m not sure what video the boys are watching in the car, I thought it was a Scooby Doo centered around sports, but this video is a direct result of whatever they are watching. They have both memorized a specific scene. In this instance, the video was stuck on the menu and Cutler still spit out the rhyme from the video. Yes, I just used the words “spit out the rhyme”. I am hip enough to do that.
Spring time weather plus an open swing set equals one happy almost fce year old.
Not to be outdone by his brother’s valentine’s letter to us, Cutler put together this valentine that was hanging on the class display at school. Complete with a drawing of the four of us.
Team Fricke 