February started with a friend's birthday celebration! We went to a local studio to handcraft our own personalized wall hanging. So fun!!
About to get started!
We made it all from scratch!
With our finished products!
Carter and Cole in the bath together..... a rarity!
Funny big brother
All clean and snuggling while watching TV in Mommy's bed
Cole has started climbing onto the couch and chairs. Yikes!
Trampoline hair!
Practicing her handstands and tumbling
Carter feeding Cole his yogurt one morning. Such a good helper!
Cole still loves music and watching music videos!
It outs him in a trance.
:)
The day after I got the stomach bug, the kids helped me clean! I think it was out of pure sympathy, because they usually don't help me like this too easily! But this particular day they were all about helping out Mommy!
Ella scrubbed down all my cabinets and drawers....
And Carter vacuumed the entire downstairs
Spent some time at the park one day off of school
Then had friends over to play and jump outside
The babies got their turn.
and were super silly!
Ella loves writing her letters and numbers lately! I thought she would never be interested in learning and practicing, but she loves it right now! Especially these PreK dry erase books!
happy boy swinging!
I brought down the diaper genie trash to be taken out on day, and Cole drug it around the downstairs, then proceeded to sit on it and ride it like a horsey!
Walking home from school one Friday afternoon, just me and my big boy! He was collecting rocks on the way.
Carter got sick after a soccer game the weekend after I was sick. Still don't know if he had what I had, or if it was just from running around and playing soccer in the heat and not drinking enough water. But he came home and voluntarily took a nap that afternoon. Poor boy! Hasn't done that in years! Thought it was sweet how he fell asleep with his head on his book.....
Fun in the dark on the trampoline!
Sillies!
They're a mess together!
Ella looked like a mid-century house wife while playing at a birthday at a little children's museum here in town. I had to laugh at this picture!
This boy loves asparagus! And so many other veggies! Makes me proud!!
I loved this snow globe art work that came home in Ella's folder one day. Most adorable craft that we've seen come home!!
Snuggling my girl
I took Ella and Cole to a Kid in the Kitchen playdate at church. Basically, they got to cut fruit, make fruit pizzas, and snack and play. Cole's favorite part was the watermelon!
After that, we picked up a quick lunch and headed to Carter's school to surprise him. I guess I deprive my kids, because I cannot even tell you how happy they were to get McDonald's happy meals for lunch! We never eat there, but it was the only thing between the church and the school, and I was in a hurry, so they got it! It's the little things I guess. :)
And it was Ella's idea to pose like this for a picture.
Loving this spring weather lately! Look at that hair sticking up!
Ball + trampoline = so much fun for this boy! One of his favorite combos.
Unfortunately, Ella was the next victim of the stomach bug the next weekend, over a Saturday night and into Sunday. Never had a kid with a stomach bug before (pretty amazing for 12+ cumulative years of parenting!), and it was pretty rough for her. Daddy to the rescue though.... he took great care of her, and kept her away from the boys in hopes to keep it at bay. She needed lots of extra snuggles those 2 days.
Over the worst of it, just lounging and recovering on Sunday night.
She slept good on Sunday night, but was still feeling tired on Monday, so she layed around until the afternoon when she felt peppy enough to go to the park for a little while. Then it was downhill from there! All better the next day for school! Poor baby, it was definitely traumatizing for her. And I'm happy to say that after 3 weekends of someone in the house being sick, we had everyone healthy this past weekend. Yay!
Big boy conquered this GIGANTIC rock at the park, HA!
Lots of soccer in February..... I have a post devoted to that coming soon!
