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We tried to take a picture of the kids this past weekend since we’re going to have a  busy Easter (Tim and I are going to see a show at the Orpheum–more on that later) so we probably won’t get to do cute dress up pictures.  So after church I tried to get a picture.  My first mistake was trying to do this on my own.  It’s really a two person process these days.  Seriously.  Maddie didn’t smile once.  Not. Once.  Although she did look at me a lot… whereas, Josiah spent a ton of time smiling, but not actually looking AT me.  And then Chloe’s hair kept blowing in her face and Levi was overly tired…

So, this is more of the reality of the picture:

This totally makes me laugh.  This is real life people!  I love how Maddie is waving at someone on the street.  So sociable all the time!

Anyway, it was still fun to capture a picture and remember this time in life.

(Oh, and as soon as we were done with all 4 kiddos Maddie was a smiling machine.  Of course…)

On Friday Chloe had a fun dress up day = “dress like what you want to be when you grow up.”  Unfortunately she didn’t alert us to this until Friday morning… during the frenzy of getting ready for school.  It then became less of what she actually wanted to be when she grew up and more of what items do we have that could easily become an outfit.  And thus the Librarian was born.

I actually think it ADORABLE.  And she embraced it since she genuinely loves to read.  See?  So. Cute.

Well, this little drool monster finally cut his first tooth this week (on the bottom).  I just love how when he sees you or you talk to him, his eyes light up like you are the most interesting thing in the whole entire world.  It’s mesmerizing.  He’s also discovered his voice in the past 2 weeks.  He’ll now sit and babble at you in a “normal” voice.  It’s so fun.  I’ll have to see if I can get a video of it… videos are hard since there is SO. MUCH. NOISE. all the time these days.  😉  At least most of the time it’s happy noise.

I’m way behind on posting lately… so here are the pictures from Josiah’s Art Fair back before Spring Break.  He had so much fun walking Tim around the “Museum of Art” showing him all of his creations.  My favorite is the program cover…

He really thought that was a hoot.  He loved being an Artist.  Here are a few of his creations.  (Notice the dinosaur name.. ha!)

In case you can’t read it–it says “Josiahosaurus”

Keep in mind this was our first attempt at it.   I did fluff out the curls you see above after I took the picture.  We’ve gotten better since then. Not so much flat space at the top… and we also learned to not use mousse b/c the curl comes right out.   Chloe LOVES her hair curly.

We had a busy semi-fun filled Spring Break here.  Some of the highlights included:

• Having a picnic while watching a movie at suppertime
• Painting part of the main floor (it was meant to be touch-up painting that turned into 3 days and 3 trips to the paint store and a whole lotta work.  Did you know our main entryway is THREE colors of taupe.  Seriously… who does that?)
• Helping Watching Tim work on the new patio out back
• Sprucing up the front flower gardens, complete with new mulch and everything!  This “small task” turned into a 5 hour project with multiple trips back to Lowe’s for more mulch… apparently the space was MUCH bigger than I thought.  I was sore that night.
• Trying a new heatless hair curling product on Chloe.  Pictures to come tomorrow.  It’s so much fun.  You put them in her hair wet and she sleeps on them, then you take them out in the morning and you have curl city!
• Watching Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them!
• Trips to the Library

And then I got sick on Saturday… nothing serious.  Just a dumb cold that settled in my throat.  So, I have spent the last couple of days wiped out.  Yesterday morning I went back to bed for an hour and a half nap when the kids went down for their morning naps.  I really needed it.  I’m feeling better today, so hopefully by tomorrow I’ll be feeling like myself again.

I’m off to upload a bunch of pictures now!

Yup–today is the first official day of Spring Break here.  It doesn’t really start for me until Tuesday, because I still teach today and then I’m also teaching Monday as a make-up day… but Chloe gets to be home, so it feels different.

The biggest news here is that Levi is transitioning to a longer schedule throughout the day, so we get to all enjoy supper together at 6:00.  The big kids think it’s so cool that he gets to sit and eat with us.  I really need to try and take a picture.  It’s definitely a full table!

In other news Chloe had her music informance at school this week and Josiah had his Art Fair.  We took pictures, but I need to get them off the camera…

(We had to wait a little longer than the other kids to move Levi to the backwards facing booster b/c Maddie is still in ours… so we were waiting for our friends to finish using their extra one… He’s loving the new found freedom of sight in the car now!)

Life around here is slowly settling back into a normal routine.  It took us the better part of last week trying to find our “normal” again.  We had to get caught back up on house stuff, do mountains of laundry, wrap up contest stuff, finish a painting that had been requested and, of course, enjoy spending time with the kiddos again!

But we are finally settling back.  In fact, just yesterday night Tim and I watched an episode of “Planet Earth” just for fun!!! I know, it’s so crazy!   What?  Spend time relaxing?  Weird, eh?

🙂

Levi is continuing to win the weight battle!