April Highlights {via iPhone}

The month included:

*dinners that featured ice cream as the main dish (it was just that kind of month)

*Lucy's monumental fit/fear over getting her chin snapped in the helmet buckle + overcoming said fear + a lot of bike rides

*lots of snow and lots of sun

*we bought a really cute house (move in date is the end of May)

*Lucy started and loves preschool

*Reid is going on his 9th tooth

*Lucy learned a new joke...how do fireflies start a race? (you will have to ask Lucy the punch line)

*Reid finally learned how to sit back down after pulling himself up

*potty training 6.0 did not take 

*Mike got a new job within Kaiser working closer to operations 

It's a tough stage

Adjusting to two was tricking, but actively teaching and playing with two is tough.  Lucy is so mature but still so dependent that the clashes between those two dimensions sometimes seem impossible to traverse.  And Reid is learning so much that his little brain won't slow down enough to fall asleep and stay asleep on his own.  Not helping is the pulling himself up skill to which he has no reverse mode to get back down.  I adore these two but I haven't had many opportunities in the past month to feel like a very successful mom. But when all else fails and I have no energy and no ideas - to the bath or shower they both go. It soothes them.  It soothes me.

Treasures

Lucy has recently become a collector of "treasures".  She likes to keep broken glass from the road and pull things out of my D.I. piles.  The more broken the better.  She often assigns them magical powers making them very hard to reclaim.   

  

March Highlights {via the iPhone}

* Mom and dad came to visit and brought us some new furniture

* Lucy got a new bike and a trampoline and is thus in heaven 

* We took a road trip to Utah for Mike's grandpa's furniture 

Easter

Holidays are starting to get fun as Lucy is able to enjoy more and more of the festivities.  We can still pick and choose what we want to do because she doesn't know any different, but what we do do, she usually loves.  

Where's Lucy?

Reid gets picked on.  A lot.  Lucy sits on him and jumps over him and drags him and tips him over and squeezes him. But he also gets loved.  A lot.  Lucy holds him and sings to him and hugs him and watches out for him and tells him stories.  And Reid eats it all up - the terror mixed with love has turned in to adoration.  I think his most restless time of the day is in the morning when Lucy is not awake yet.  He will pull/drag/scoot/crawl himself to be where she is. (And yes, one of article of clothing is always missing from at least one of my children at almost all times.  I feel mostly capable at parenting but I really can't seem to keep them both fully clothed.) 

True Love

This girl wakes up asking for her bike before she even opens her eyes (we know this because she is usually on the floor in our room when morning comes).  She is unmotivated by bribery for treats or new toys, but an extra long ride on her bike...she is game for anything. And as a disclaimer, she is now (post picture) the proud owner of a helmet. 

Around Here

Some observations:

* Lucy lives her life like Benjamin Button...she talks about getting smaller and frequently refers to the teachers she has already had in high school.

* The very day I had decided to sleep train Reid (he was still waking once a night around 2:00 am) he slept through the night.  And every night since then.  I didn't have to do a thing and there were no tears!

* Favorite shows of Lucy's right now are Doc McStuffins, Word World, and Super Why.

* Lucy is taking swimming lessons and karate lessons.  The former being a success.  The later, not so much.