More of March

More random pictures of our life with our littles...

Lainee and Jace both had blood drawn last week. Lainee's was being checked for food allergies because she had a some kind of huge reaction last summer, and Jace's hemoglobin has bee slightly low so his needs to be checked for a bunch of things. Anywho, Lainee cried like a baby and Jace wasn't even phased. 

When Jace hears the FaceTime ring or a song or video on a device, he hurries to sit next to whoever is watching to join in.

I have this kid one tiny, bite-sized piece of chocolate egg and somehow he did this with it... What the heck?!

Lainee missed out on a chance to ride the train with Jace and her friends at the mall. We've been trying to have more meaningful consequences for her lately, and I think this one may have worked. She's such a sweet, friendly, helpful girl most of the time but, you know, she's three and that's worse than two. ;)

This is a daily occurrence. Something has to be on that shelf... I've rearranged a few times and no matter what is there, he's into it. (This is how my crockpot came to an end.)

Jace just loooves this little girly! She came over for a bit today and the whole hour before she arrived, he was uber excited and kept pointing to the door, waiting. He is at such a fun age right now and I adore him!

Selfie Sesh!

One time, like last week, Jace was being super possessive and protective of his big dog, and he cried every time Lainee came near him or even looked at him...

So, to distract them both, this selfie session happened! Enjoy!

Mid March Update.

This is another one of those "life according to my phone camera" posts... Random fun, doctor visits, my birthday, and more...

When we take walks or play outside, all Jace wants to do is checkout every car in the lot. There is a big yellow truck at the far end that he adores.

Lainee comes running every evening when I say "I need a table-setter!"

Have I mentioned this guy can't stop climbing on stuff? (Luckily this day he forgot to pull the chair out so he didn't make it to the top of the table).

One night Jace noticed that everyone kept closing and opening their eyes (aka blinking) so he spent some time experimenting with his own eyelid abilities.

Lainee had a follow up appt for her previous issues, and while we were there, the doc said she couldn't see much in one ear because of too much earwax, so they drained a huge mass of wax out and it was nasty.

Sometimes Jace uses legs and arms as tracks for his cars.

But mostly he just uses the tv stand.

He is so learning to use his little sporks.

He's so proud of himself!

We are having perfect weather for hanging out on the patio lately. I have to wash it down once a week our so because of all the dust and green pollen but it's worth it.

We had some visitors from Idaho on their way to California and it was soo fun to see them!

Lainee and her buddy, Will.

The crazy crew (minus Sophie).

Lainee's hair-before.

After.

I had a birthday and went on a date for the first time in forEVER! Thanks honey!

On my actual birthday, Garen snuck home during church and finished cleaning the house and left me a surprise!

Last week preschool was at our house so the second day, we did St Patrick's Day stuff... Leprechaun book, word family in a pot o gold, rainbows and the color wheel, lucky charm graphing, green snacks, Irish facts, and river dancing! Fun!

(I have no clue why Lainee struggled to write her name on the paper here, since she's been writing it for over a year now. Haha, funny kid.)

When the kids are out on the patio, Jace likes to knock on the door and window at me.

All the kids' friends have been on this train at the mall so I finally gave in and spent the $6 to let them ride. They loved it.

On occasion, when no one has to be anywhere in the morning, and we need some bonding time, we have family movie nights and sleep out on the air mattress all together. It's been almost a year since the last time, so we had one of these fun parties last Friday. 

Poor Jace had these rips (idk the non-gymnast term for this) on the bottoms of his feet Sunday afternoon and I hadn't noticed before so we weren't sure where they came from. Then I was tidying up and found a thick piece of skin the size of a nickel stuck to the strap on one of his little flip flops. The poor kid never even whined or acted like his feet hurt.  :(

I have never been one to "celebrate" St Patrick's Day because, as far as I know, I'm not Irish. This year was fun to teach the preschool kids some stuff about Ireland, and of course, one of the girls brought up the fact that her older siblings planned to set a trap and catch a leprechaun for St Patrick's Day... So guess who thought that was a great idea and has an easy mom to talk into stuff like that? Ding ding! Lainee! So we set up this oh-so-original trap and then the leprechaun forgot to show up (whoops) but don't worry, he came while we were at the grocery store! He left a note saying thanks for the treats but he was too fast for the trap. Haha.

I hope you all had a LUCKY day!