All I Want For Easter...

M4 lost one of his top front teeth today! The other one is loose, too. Three out and counting. I'll take a picture of his gap-toothed grin soon.

A couple spring-like days and back to the cold again. I hate those spring teasers!

New baby!

Carmelle and Matt had a baby girl early this morning! Yay!

On the subject of Snuggies - Bad word alert!!

Quote courtesy of M4

(Y'know how when you're laying down watching the idiot box, and the cat walks up on your chest and his less appealing regions are unfortunately pointed toward your face??)

To Rumpus: It's not appropriate to show your privates.

Fresh snow + sun + nature hike = Saturday!!

Queen Anne's LaceM3 being sassy
The lonely path
I have a picture of these two in summer at the same place (CERA) holding hands, but much younger...
Andy Goldsworthy's cairn

Whew!!

Well, both kids are back to school today, thank goodness!! My patience was starting to wear thin with the whining and sniveling... (I'm such a nice mom). So M3 was diagnosed with strep on her birthday, although it manifested more as scarlet fever with a horrible, itchy rash. Twenty four hours on antibiotics and she's as good as new. M4 had a mystery illness. He's been harboring a cold for a while, but he claimed to feel "horrible" yesterday morning. No fever, but we let him stay home although we were convinced he really just wanted to stay home like his sister. But at 10:30am, he fell asleep for more than two hours which is weird for him. After he woke up, he was basically back to normal. Ah, the mystery of the human body!

Winter storm watch here this evening...

Birthday!!

We had fun bowling for M3's birthday. She invited several buddies from her grade. It was a beautiful day, so the kids walked home from the bowling alley (we live two blocks away!) for pizza and cake. There were only a few instances of ear-splitting screaming. Action shot

The side-granny shot

Only slightly cuckoo

Make a wish!

The crew and the damage

I can't help wondering if we'll have similar pictures of these kids in the years to come. It will be cool to see how they grow and change.