March 16-23

Charlie all of a sudden got super obsessed with leggings.  But since he isn't perfect at the potty yet, he went though half a dozen pair in a day.  Luckily this obsession only lasted about a day.

We started 'preschool' at home!   I really don't know what I am doing, but they are having fun!   We started with Letter C for Charlie!   We made clouds with cotton balls.

Then cloud snacks with marshmallows, marshmallow fluff and whip cream. 

We practiced writing the letter C!  Adella was so excited!

We did caterpillar lacing.

And Caterpillar counting.

Adella wanted her picture taken again, and she wanted to be covered in pillows...

The found Charlie's first Halloween costume and decided it was a cat costume.  They've been wearing it around looking completely silly. 

Charlie and I ran errands together, just him and I!  His first order of business was to ensure we got donuts.   As we were leaving our first store I told him we had one more store to go to and he said "Oh to get more donuts!"

And Adella and I went to see Cinderella!  We had so much fun at her first movie!  She insisted on wearing a cute hat and had to have the biggest popcorn there!  

Finally, Marilee has a new obsession with hanging upside down.  I would pull her up and she would promptly fall back down. 

March 9-15

This was a rough week in our house!  In some ways I feel like we are stilling playing catch up! 

The day after Marilee's bday party, the sickness began.  Adella and Marilee woke up within minutes of each other Monday night throwing up.   It was sad sad sad.    The next day I did a LOT of laundry.  And we watched A LOT of movies.   Just when we thought it was over, bam it hit Charlie.

Then Adam.... Then eventually me.  It wasn't pretty or fun!

Marilee sharing my sick bed.  We were just all plain worn out!

Adam stayed home one or two days and came home early the others.   We had lots of extra cuddles!

As the week was ending and we started to feel better, well at least Adella did but you can see she is rocking super fun hair- sure sign mom still has no energy!  She found a capri sun and when I wouldn't put the straw in for her, she did it herself.  I decided if she could figure it out on her own she deserved it!  I mean, even I still have a hard time with those!

She loves finding daddy's mask and wearing it and insisted I take a picture. 

Of course Charlie wanted in on it too!

And then she wanted a picture of the three of them. 

We ended the week at a birthday party.  I still felt awful and wanted to leave, but these kids HAD to stick around for cake so there we were, for 3 glorious hours!  The only bonus was I didn't have to make dinner!

March 2- March 8

Adella got her first hair 'trim'!  The word 'cut' is not allowed as it terrifies her!  So Charlie gets cuts, Adella gets trims!

Charlie had a bit of an accident on the slide.  That's what happens after it rains and mom doesn't tell you NOT to go down the slide with water at the bottom!

This is how I shop with 3!  It's actually usually quite fun!

I watched a friends kids for a bit and all the kids actually played super awesome together!

Charlie insisted I take a picture of his swing!

And Adella had to follow!

I was checking lighting and such for a mini photoshoot for Marilee's birthday and these kids thought it was their dance floor.  Nutty kids!

Charlie and Adella just had to be a part too!

We love our little 1 year old!  She is just the best thing!  So incredibly sweet and practically perfect!  She has her Dr visit this week so we will have official stats then.  She is now sitting on her own, pulling up to a standing position and starting to cruise along furniture!   She loves songs, books and any toy that she can 'chew' on.  Her favorite food is little crunchies!    She likes baths and ADORES her brother and sister.  They still get the best laughs out of her!  She will smile at just about anyway and is just seriously so darn cute we can hardly stand it!

I love my little models!

We had a cake smash party for her on Sunday.  The whole cake thing didn't go over super well but darn she looked cute!

Posing with Great Grandma and Grandpa Hall!