This week

Some happenings this week…

We spent Saturday at the lake celebrating Joe’s birthday. The weather was wonderful and we did some sledding and ice fishing. Jena also did Popcorn Olympics with the kiddos! Nine little people and 6 adults made for a crazy (as always) and super fun day.

 

All the boys got to shoot Joe’s birthday BB gun. I never thought I’d be letting my three year old shoot a gun. Life in a hunting family… Although I mostly blame his uncle

 

We’ve been struggling with Lucy this week to take a bottle again. Between Christmas break and then having sick kiddos so much, Lucy’s hardly been to daycare and has had no need to take a bottle. Now she is on bottle strike. Luckily, I only leave her for about 2 1/2 hours at daycare so she isn’t really starving by the time I get there. She just thinks she is. But she’s super cute…

We had a special Valentine’s breakfast yesterday. $1 table cloth, $1 plates, $2 worth of stickers and puzzles, heart shaped donuts and there ya have it! We never sit down for breakfast together on weekday mornings, so it was fun to do something special.

Every year around this time I have to remind myself that parenting isn’t awful, it’s just that February is awful. We’ve had some pretty crabby days (can’t blame those entirely on the kids…) around here and everyone is ready to get outside again! We did some swimming at the Y and also played there yesterday. Dominic is doing drama camp at the Y and the rest of us spent a good chunk of time playing while we waited for him. The kiddos were making a maze out of giant Jenga blocks.

One of the goals for 2014 is to strip the wall paper off the twins’ walls and paint them. It is a big room. This photo represents an hour and half of work. I borrowed a friend’s steamer, which made a very, very tedious and time consuming task slightly less overwhelming. But only slightly. Apparently the steamer was too much for our electrical system, which sent Patrick upstairs yelling for Luke, “Dad! Mom blew a circus!”

 

 

Luke and I are off to a much anticipated date night tonight, with Lucy in tow, of course. I think we’re going to go crazy and do Applebee’s!