March in Houston is awesome.  The weather is in the low to mid 70s all month, trees and flowers are blooming almost overnight, and it is rodeo season!  For those of you unfamiliar with the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, it is 3 weeks long and is HUGE.  There are a complete list of rodeo events such as barrel racing, chariot races, mutton bustin, roping of all sorts, and of course, my favorite, the bull riding.  There is a concert every night following the rodeo, with performers such as Zac Brown Band, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, Reba, George Strait, etc.  The whole thing is held in Reliant Stadium where our football team plays.

Whether or not you go to the rodeo, you can’t help but get in the spirit during this time of year.  Everyone all over town busts out their cowboy boots and sometimes cowboy hats and wears them all over the place, including to work.  The twins had a rodeo theme day at their school on Tuesday where they were in a rodeo parade with their stick horses that Dave made for them.   He had to go to Michael’s craft store for the first time in his life!

Audrey and Andrew turned 7 months old last week.  We completely forgot about it until a couple of days later.  Oops!  Andrew is working hard at sitting up and also trying to learn to crawl.  Audrey seems possibly capable of sitting up when you work with her, but refuses to do so and instead stubbornly straightens her legs to stand up.  That’s my girl!

We have recently been struggling with a bit of the stomach flu in our house.  Vomiting is nothing new for us, so we didn’t think much of it.  However, last night, Andrew was fussy and had us up about once every hour of the night.  We finally got him down around 2AM for what seemed like it was going to be a good stretch of time and we happily settled into bed.  About 2:47, we heard a retching sound coming from right in between us!  We both simultaneously discovered the cat gagging and lurching in our bed, about to puke on our brand new sheets and our pillows.  In a miraculously quick-thinking and strangely athletic movement, I somehow managed in the dark to locate and grab a box of tissues off the floor and frantically rip the tissues out of the box.  I shoved them under the cat’s head with less than a second to spare.  We caught all the puke on the tissues, sparing the sheets and saving us from a 3AM sheets changing event.  Not to worry though, we were up again at 3:30 with Andrew, changing his sheets shortly thereafter.  Ah well.  You win some, you lose some.

Here are a couple of pictures of the Rodeo Parade at Audrey and Andrew’s school, complete with the stick horses Dave made.  What a rock star dad!