Feb pics

Here's the update from February...

I caught Haleigh reading by flashlight so Max could go to sleep in her room.  Aaahh... brings back so many memories of myself!

Miles is loving his new watch and tells us what time it is about every hour.

Haleigh taught some of the boys dance routines.  Look at that second picture of Louis jumping on the couch!  No wonder everything in our house is broken!

Taco night is almost every sunday where the kids load up what they like.  This is Max's taco with a cookie on it.  Yuck!  Nice try, buddy!

I can't tell you how much grief this dog is giving us lately.  He loves to run off and visit dog friends in the neighborhood and come back like 10 hours later!  I don't know what to do about it! The babies keep opening up the doors whenever he begs and then he disappears.  Sigh!

Haleigh getting ready for the day...

Louis did Show and Teach for his kindergarten class.  He taught how to make Purple Cow smoothies.

Doug shaved off his beard and is trying out a mustache.  I've had lots of fun teasing him.  

Piano practice..

Nail biting moments reading The Hunger Games trilogy...

We found the bed she wants but in the wrong color.

VDay

Our Valentines was low-key and fun.  First, we prepped our Valentine's while having a popcorn party.  Carter's face here is funny.  He likes to pose with faces instead of smiling lately.  Nice surprised look, Dude.  The preparing of valentines is more fun than getting them.  

Then on the actual Vday, Doug took us out to breakfast which is one of our favorite things to do.  Probably because I'm a bad mom and never cook them a hot meal in the morning.  We are a cereal family most days.

I also helped in Haleigh's class with an chocolate tasting activity with the percentages of cacao.  

Valentines rounded out with a date for Chinese food and this mountain which we saved for later since that thing was huge!  

Mom Trip

I recently had to go to Logan for a few days to attend a workshop.  The kids weren't too happy about me leaving.  Haleigh and Louis in particular are terrible at goodbye's.  I'm usually like "See ya!"  when I say bye to people but they have a harder time.  

The traditional goodbye booty shake.

On my way, Siri and I returned a lot of calls and texts in three hours of peaceful quiet driving in the car.  This reply from Siri made me laugh.  

I won't bore you with all the details of writing million dollar grants but I will say that my trip was so fun to be alone for a few days, eat at my favorite places and sleep peacefully with no one crawling in my bed.  One night when I was eating my favorite stuff at my favorite place, all the old grandmas also eating there were looking at me with such pity and looks of encouragement since I was alone at a restaurant.  I wanted to shout at them, "Don't feel sorry for me!  This is AWESOME!  I'm having a wonderful Me Party."  

Overall, great trip.  I want to do another Me Party very soon.