Day 39
Snow Day, and finally a snowman. Of course Joshua is more excited about riding his bike than making a snowman, so Mama ended up making most of it.
I found Joshua like this, this morning. Apparently he got up super early and wanted to get dressed, so he put all of his clothes on his bed and then got overwhelmed and took a nap on his beanbag instead.
This is Gideon's imitiation of Mama, I'm pretty sure. He put the pot holders on his hands, walked around with a bobble head and said, "Oh, oh, oh." He thought he was sooo funny.
Day 40
Don't worry, it's not blood. It's marker.
8 plus hours of indoor play (thanks to another 5 inches of snow) included some unattended marker-coloring time. The boys took my preoccupation (doing the dishes) as an opportunity to tatoo themselves.
Caleb wrote his full name. Of course, he's been able to write his first name for a long time, but we've been working on teaching him to read. He sounded out the letters in his full name and wrote it without my help. He missed a couple of letters, but was really close. What a smarty.
More snow on our snowman. The boys looked out and said, "It's gone! Where's our snowman?"
Day 41
Some cutey-pie friends came over for some playtime on other snow day. And Meadow thought Evelyn needed some extra junk in her trunk.
Evelyn's first curl! She has hair, finally.
Day 42
It doesn't happen often, but sometimes the boys put themselves to bed with a book or two.
Day 43
Egg in toast hearts for Valentine's Day.
I needed a wider angle lens to fit all 9 kids in this shot. Had some little friends over for heart-shaped pizzas, some playtime, a few books read under a flashlight and a short movie with some ice cream. It's not Joshua's birthday, but he thought it was!
Day 44
Yahoo! The snow melted while we were at church and lunch. I let the children out of the car (similar to letting the dog off it's leash, if you'll forgive the canine comparison), and the boys' reaction to the melting snow was to beat what was left of the snowman with his own "coal" buttons and carrot nose. Gideon wants so badly to be a big boy, it cracks me up. Evelyn could care less what the boys are doing, but Gideon is right there in the middle of it.
Day 45
The boys at their Classical Conversations school on Valentine's Day.
The boys got to hand out Valentine's to the other kids in their class.
Caleb and I made the Valentines for his class. He cut out the hearts. I shaped them up. He wrote all the names and drew pictures on the back. I did the rest. When he saw the bracelets, he said, "Whaaatt? You sewed the buttons on? And you put the hearts on our bags? It looks like you they just came on there." It was fun impressing him. I felt like a good mom.
Day 46
Playgroup at Action Gymnastics. The twins loved it so bad. They ran in opposite directions and kept me from having more than a 2-word conversation, but Evelyn laughed a lot and it was worth it.
Snack time at playgroup. These four could be siblings. Their lives are intertwined.
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