February

Another month, more happenings.

 Another day of snow, after melting before, and I decided to make some peanut butter playdough.  I found the recipe at Our Best Bites.  The girls had fun, William had fun after school, and it tasted delicious.

Oh the concentration.

Oh the love, he was good for about a minute before he was squirming.  Caitlyn loves Bradley, and he does love when she gets near him.  It might be his obsession with her hair.

Brandon made an appointment for me to get a haircut, he is no longer allowed to talk to people at church, and I thought i would see how my hair would react to being short again.  When I last cut it short it didn't go well, this was after I had William. It seemed that the curl took a vacation and I wasn't sure if it would ever come back.  When I had Caitlyn I was diagnosed with a low thyroid, prescribed medication, and the curl seemed to come back.  So I thought I would try short again, and Brandon seemed to be okay with it.

 Ten inches or so off, donated to Beautiful Lengths, and I really like it.  Brandon does too.  It is actually shorter now, the first cut was long enough that if it didn't work on it's own I could curl it.

February was also birthday month for me.  It feels so lonely, everyone else is in the last half of the year.  So it is a good thing that my extended family has a ton of February birthdays.

Sometimes breakfast gets messy.  And sometimes the house too, just ignore the laundry in the background.

Brandon likes to fish, but he doesn't actually like fish, go figure.  He took William ice fishing a couple of years ago, but since then William mentions at least once in the winter that it was fun to go ice fishing.  Well this year there was a free kids ice fishing day, so Brandon signed up the three oldest and they had a great time.

 Checking the lines, I'm not entirely sure what Britton is doing.

 A tiny fish.  Caitlyn caught 4 or 5, although the number seemed to get bigger every time she told the story.

 Another small fish.  William caught 9 fish, but it was all catch and release cause they were small.

Brandon claims there was supposed to be a fish in the picture.  Britton insisted on holding it, squeezed it, and even kissed it.  The kids had fun, ate some hot dogs, chili and hot chocolate.

January

I cannot believe how long it has been since I blogged anything, so you are going to get very short blow by blows.  But there are some picture so you could technically just look at the cute kids and skip the words.

Caitlyn requested an igloo in the backyard.  After being told that we didn't have enough snow, Brandon agreed to make the pile of snow in the front yard bigger and dig a little snow cave.  Caitlyn and William were very excited and it was a good thing they played while they could because it melted in the next couple of days.

They spent the afternoon in the cave, Caitlyn wasn't so sure about coming inside.

Bradley is by far the most maneuverable of the four kids, he rolls he spins and then he finds himself under the piano bench.  And he is so happy, can't you tell?

William went to a birthday party where he got to wear his Cat in the Hat costume and so everyone had to try it on.  Bradley in the Hat was of course adorable, but for some reason this was the favorite way of wearing the hat.  So there you have January in a nutshell, minus the hair cut and donation but there aren't any photos for that until next month.