Today was the Falls Township St. Patrick's Day Parade...literally about 2 blocks from my front door -- it was a lovely walk. Above are pictures of some of the festivities. Matthew slept during the whole thing, while Christopher seemed to have a great time just sitting and taking it all in...well, after his time out for running all over the place and not listening...after that, he was golden. He got some candy, a green Celtic Philadelphia Phillies baseball cap, and sat in complete and utter amazement during the whole thing.
Christopher nabbed Daddy's sluggo, and rocked it harder than Randy Jackson did with Journey. Before we left, he had to get his jacket on and prepare for the festivities to come as it was quite chilly and very windy today. Note: The hat didn't make it 3 houses after we left before it was back on Daddy's head.
Matthew, as one could imagine, was less than interested in any of the festivities, as he woke up for a brief moment, then nodded off just as quickly back into his deep slumber. He has been fighting feeling a bit under the weather for some time now, hence the very warm car seat cover, and he's teething on top of that. He has no time for this shilelagh-toting business. This is a great picture of his very blue eyes though.
We also met up with Colleen's brother, mother, Aunt Bet and her children and their children. Ben and Christopher were both glued to the goings on of the parade, while Cameron, Benjamin's baby sister, went the way of Rip Van Winkle along with Matthew.
It was a fun time. Now me and the boys are home....they're both in bed (where I plan to be once this is posted). Colleen is out with her family at what is called a Hooli (I have no idea how to spell it, but I'm sure that I just completely destroyed it) and maybe some drinking later on this evening. We all had, and are having in our own little ways I suppose, a wonderful day. I hope everyone out there is being safe this holiday.
Yes, it's that time of year -- time for the annual Christopher M. Kane birthday cake-making extravaganza. This year, we tried to keep it relatively simple. We went with a smaller cake and a much simpler concept to pull off. Well, quite honestly, our hands were forced by certain circumstances (money, of course, combined with the fact that the cake pan we wanted to buy (an 8" X 16" large pan in the shape of the number 3) to get this cake rolling was almost impossible to get. Stores in our area were all out of them and they were nowhere to be found on any online source we could find.
The original idea was to make a big cake in the shape of a "3", with railroad tracks made of black and chocolate licorice along the contours. Then we were going to make little train cakes and have them along the tracks. It would have been tons upon tons of work to accomplish. Not to mention that we could only find one cake pan that would work for this idea on Ebay, and we kept getting outbid to the point where buying it would have just been ridiculous. So, the concept was nixed for this one...a much smaller three atop a sheet cake with a train made of cookies and M&M's. I was in charge of the cookies, sadly enough...so I apologize for how they turned out (a hot mess), but they got done. And, for some strange reason no one in our area carries black rope licorice (as Colleen discovered after running around all over the Levittown area to find the "black gold"), so Colleen had to go buy decorating tips and pipe the outer track. We used a mixture of silver and black cake glitter for the gravel. Christopher was beside himself with excitement this morning when he saw the cake...asking Colleen over-and-over again to open the 'fridge so she could see the cake. So, as tedious as this whole process tends to be, his excitement always makes up for it a million times over.
Then, to top it off, we took a couple of cute photos of Matthew.
