They Just Keep Growing (9 months + 3 years 4 months)

One of those rare moments when both little ones were wearing all their articles of clothing just had to be documented (in part because Lucy can't unbutton her dress and lets just not dwell on the issue of shoes). They look pretty cute in clothes if I do say so myself.  I should probably try a tad harder to keep them in this clad state, but one of them is always missing a pair of pants (escapee from a diaper change or pants turned super hero cape) or shirt (splashed by an overzealous hand washing or dirtied while saving the baby from mango eating dinosaurs) or they have crazy hair (victims of fort building or under cushion rescue attempts). I definitely did not picture the war with clothing when I envisioned my role as a mom.  But maybe its a war worth losing if its at least in the name of superhero work.    

   

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.