March

After we finished with Davis’s birthday, March marked the first of a little bit of a slow down in our life. I felt like we’d been running a million miles an hour for several months with holidays, birthdays, trips and so many extra curricular activities (which finished at the end of February). The weather started to get nice and got to slow down a little bit and enjoy each other in our yard a lot!

March also started so serious “terrible twos” tantrums from our little lady. She’s so darling, but man, can she scream! Will of iron!

I started making sourdough bread! It’s turned out so good! I made a starter from scratch and now we have delicious homemade sourdough several times a week. It’s probably Ben’s favorite thing that happened in March.

One morning, Chase took out the garbage (like he does every morning) and came back inside remarking how nice the spring air felt and the birds singing. A few minutes later I found him outside with Davis. Davis yelled up to me “We are just listening to the birds!” It’s nice when you wake up early enough to enjoy the singing birds on a spring morning!

We had a few lovely evenings out in our yard. Our apricot tree bloomed and as I was sitting under it with Lila, Hudson noticed the bees were buzzing everywhere up in the blossoms. “Please do your work bees! I want apricots!” (Hudson loves apricots)

Davis always wants a picnic for lunch. Sometimes I throw them on the deck with a blanket and he thinks it’s the best thing ever.

I just loved this photo of Ben and Lila talking on their phones to each other. This baby girl has her daddy so wrapped around her little finger.

I got some super weird stomach bug that lasted for several days and was crazy painful. I was just a little bit dramatic about it. Thankfully, Ray and Diane took the littles for a few hours so I could rest, and Lila just looked so cute all ready to go with them! 

Hudson had to read a biography and make a “bottle buddy” for school. He is super into cars right now, so naturally we picked Henry Ford. I was dreading the actual making of the bottle buddy, but really, as he always does, Hudson had a plan and a vision and got it done just fine with very little help from me.

Pi day! Hudson had karate, so he ate his pie later than the rest of us, which was convenient since I hadn’t taken a picture earlier. I love pie so we can never let this day pass without one!

I volunteer at the boys school every Wednesday morning and it’s always a highlight of my week. I love getting to see my boys at school and meet their classmates and get a feel for what their life is like there. I go to Hudson’s class first where I pull the kids out to work on math facts. I always pull Hudson first and he just looked so cute this particular day, so I snapped a photo of him!

We had kindergarten round-up and this boy was smiling ear to ear and couldn’t contain himself he was so excited! He is going to be the cutest little kindergartener! He can’t wait to go to school with “his boys”!

St. Patricks Day! We had green muffins and no one seemed to mind that no leprechauns showed up! I tried to get Lila to get in the photo with them, but she flat out refused. And Chase doesn’t own much green, but he did have a stripe of green on his socks!

Chase got to do BizTown at school! It’s such a cool program! The kids all get jobs and learn how to do them and manage money. Then they spend a day at BizTown (Discovery Gateway) actually doing their job and running a little city. He had been looking forward to this day for months! He was a bank teller, and although it wasn’t his first choice, he ended up loving it. Also- that’s real life buddy! Sometimes you don’t get the job you applied for. Good life lessons happening all around for this boy this year!

Aunt Heidi and Nana went to Paris and brought Lila this darling shirt. When they gave it to her, she immediately insisted on putting it on and wore it all night and the next day. She even slept in it! I love how much she already loves clothes!