March Comes In Like a Lion

Mmm, not so much. Beautiful first day of March we had.

A few days later it did rain, but by the evening, it was nice again.

morning and afternoon pictures

 

The first day of March brought us Share a Smile Day. We smiled. It brought us Peanut Butter Lover's Day. People ate peanut butter sandwiches. It also brought us National Pig Day. I decided to create another version of my "Pig Island" picture from 2015. I went around singing the song as well.

 The second day of March brought us Dr. Seuss' birthday. "Do you like green eggs and ham?"

The third day of March brought us I Want You to Be Happy Day. Double Chocolate Chunk Muffins make us happy. It brought us National Cold Cuts Day. People ate ham sandwiches. It also brought us National Soup It Forward Day. I took that opportunity to try a new soup recipe, Easy Chicken Parmesan Soup, from sixsistersstuff.com and it was so yummy. Jeremy, Nichole, Jet, and I all loved it.

The fourth day of March brought us National Sons Day. I let the boys pick what we'd have for dinner so we had pepperoni pizza, BBQ chicken pizza, and Pineapple Fanta. It brought us Grammar Day. I corrected people's grammar from time to time. It also brought us National Dance the Waltz Day and National Marching Music Day. Like last year, Jet and I danced the waltz to "Stars and Stripes Forever" in 3/4 time.

 

The next day we had enough ingredients to make more pepperoni and BBQ chicken pizzas so the kids made more pizzas. Thanks, kids. 

Pig Island

Sandra Boynton is an author and illustrator who has done some really cute board books for children.  Years and years ago, my mom got us a book and CD of songs by Sandra Boynton and Michael Ford.  It's called "Philadelphia Chickens."  One of the songs is "Pig Island" and on the CD it is sung by Scott Bakula. 
The chorus to "Pig Island" goes like this:
"Pig Island! Pig Island! What a beautiful place to be.  They play on the beaches the color of peaches there by the turquoise sea, oh my, under a blue, blue sky."
Since March 1 is National Pig Day, I made my own culinary interpretation of the scene described in the chorus.

Cute, huh?
Jeremy pointed out that they are "pigs in a beach blanket."
Also cute.

On a related note, February 28 is National Tooth Fairy Day.  So to celebrate both holidays, last night Jeremy and I watched the movie, "Hogfather," based on the Terry Pratchett book.  It has tooth fairies in it and it takes place the night before Hogswatch.  We watched it the night before Pig Day.
Yeah, it's not just the kids that are creative in our family.

Pigs in a Blanket Day

March 1st is National Pig Day.  Since we ate pigs in a blanket and Jr. bundled up in a blanket while watching a movie and called himself a pig in a blanket, Jr. Jr. kept calling today Pigs in a Blanket Day.  He's cute.

March 1st is also Share a Smile Day.

And it's Peanut Butter Lovers Day.  The kids had tortillas with peanut butter rolled up on them.

Heh Heh Heh.  Pig Day.

Service Pigs

March 1 is National Pig Day.  I had ideas of what we could do with it: play Pass the Pigs, read Pig Pigger Piggest by Rick Walton, watch Babe, eat pigs in a blanket.

All we managed to do was eat pigs in a blanket.

The boys and I were able to celebrate another holiday, though.  March 1 is also Share a Smile Day.  Before Nichole came home from school, the boys and I went around delivering smiles to some friends and neighbors.  I printed out notes that said, "March 1st is Share a Smile Day.  We want you to know we're thinking of you and would like to share this smile, too."  Jr. then drew smiley faces on the notes.

It was nice to do that bit of service, sharing smiles, and getting smiles in return.  Of course at a few places, the boys played with the kids while I chatted with the moms.  Fun for all.

After Nichole came home, I took the kids out to Hill Park because the weather was so nice.  March did not come in like a lion this year.  Nichole and Jr. had fun riding their scooters around while I pushed Jr. Jr. in the stroller. 

By the time we got home there wasn't time to do any of those pig-themed activities except the pigs in a blanket.  Jr. did go around snorting like a pig every time someone said the word, "pig" for a while.

March Holidays Coming Up

Here we go again. Reasons to celebrate this month and how we've blogged about them in the past.

March 2 is Read Across America Day/ Birthday of Dr. Seuss
March 3, 2011- Dr. Seuss' Birthday (Read Across America Day)

March 6 is Dentist's Day
March 4, 2011- How to celebrate Dentist's Day
March 5, 2011- A Couple of Links

March 7 is National Cereal Day
March 7, 2011- Points for Creativity

March 11 is Johnny Appleseed Day
[The blog that had the post no longer exists]

March 12 is Plant a Flower Day
March 12, 2011- Plant a Flower Day

March 15 is The Ides of March
March 15, 2011- Beware the Ides of March

March 17 is St. Patrick's Day
March 17, 2011- St. Paddy's Day 2011

March 20 is the Vernal Equinox (Start of Spring)
March 30, 2011- Spring

March 20 is also National Snowman Burning Day

March 28 is Something on a Stick Day
March 28, 2011- Something on a Stick Day 2011
We recently learned how to make homemade corn dogs so you know we'll be doing that this year.

March 31- April 1 is LDS General Conference
April 2, 2011- Reverence Tent
April 4, 2011- Reverence Tent, Day 2

We haven't blogged about National Pig Day in the past, but we celebrated it today, March 1.
We had pigs in a blanket for dinner and we played with pig toys.

Jeremy was afraid I'd think him pig-headed.

What are you looking forward to celebrating this month?