So, why the name?

Ethan and Elijah fell in love with "The Cat in the Hat" books sometime around the age of two.  We had tons of Dr. Suess books that we read at nap time and bedtime and all the times in between.  We finally came across a Dr. Suess DVD that included 2 or 3 short cartoons based on his books!  The boys were in LOVE!  It was around this time that whenever I asked the boys to clean up their toys they would run around the house singing "sweep sweep sweeping up the merries".  We had no idea what they were saying much less where they had gotten it from.  Weeks later I sat down once again to watch the video with the boys and at the end of "The Cat in the Hat" I heard a very familiar tune!  As the Cat was cleaning up his mess he was singing "Sweep sweep sweeping up the memories" and it all made sense!  Even though the boys have long forgotten this cute little phrase Mommy and Daddy will never forget it.  With time going by so quickly we are sweeping up as many "merries" as we can!