Wednesday . . .

I took this picture from the sidewalk outside our front door yesterday morning, after we'd had some pretty nasty weather the night before. The pond looked pretty all frozen, today you can't even see it because we got a few inches of snow last night.








When I got back upstairs I thought it was funny to see the kids' different reactions to my being gone for a minute. Lauren seemed a bit concerned. David did too, can you tell?! I'm not sure he even noticed I was gone :oD

Well, today has been a pretty eventful day! This morning was all laundry and packing and last minute errands getting Chris ready to leave for Virginia for a week. After Chris headed out at 11:30 I got lunch for the kids and myself and then took David to school. Lauren and I decided to head to the grocery store while David was in school. As we were in the checkout line I realized that Lauren had turned into the "great exploding baby"!! We got through the line and headed to the bathrooms to try to salvage the clothes (and Lauren) and get a clean diaper. Because I like to be prepared I had, of course, brought a change of clothes. They just happened to be in the van! Poor Lauren had to go shirtless (with her coat on of course, it was really cold out) to the van to get some clean clothes. By the time we got done with our adventure in the bathroom it was time to pick David up from kindergarten so off we went. Poor David had been so excited about going outside to play with Lauren after school, but we had to postpone it until tomorrow because as soon as we got home Lauren's coat and everything else she was wearing went into the washer. Lauren went straight into the tub!! She now smells much better and both kids are sleeping peacefully :oD We'll head outside first thing in the morning!

David has karate after school tomorrow and then we are off to Marshall for the weekend, Deb says there is plenty of snow so I should have some good pictures of the kids to post when we get back! I hope you all have a great weekend too!!

Love,

Chris, Megan, David & Lauren

A typical day

We had quite a bit to do today (although some of it is going to have to wait for tomorrow, there just weren't enough hours today!) Lauren and I were sick the end of last week and over the weekend, luckily David seems to be feeling fine but poor Chris came home from work and went to bed at about 7pm. He took such good care of me and Lauren and apparently we repaid him by sharing our germs. This morning there was plenty of laundry and cleaning to do, then lunch and time for David to go to school.


After we dropped David off at school Lauren and I went to Once Upon a Child to look for a toybox (can you tell we need one? :oD). We didn't find a toybox, but Lauren did find this purse, she carried it all around the store and didn't even want to let the lady at the counter scan it. We also found her a cute pair of snowpants and these snowboots (which she wore for the rest of the day.) So far this year lauren hasn't seemed to want to play in the snow, but I figured maybe with her pretty purple and pink pants and boots we could coax her out for a while so David can have a bit of fun while daddy is at work during the day.

We also found a fun book for David while we were out. I used to love reading Beverly Cleary books when I was little and I thought it would be fun for David too. He is getting better every day with his reading, he loves to try to spell words too. Pretty soon he'll be reading bedtime stories to me :oD

David loves having his picture taken!!

Our kids are so silly!!

After dinner it was off to the YMCA so David could have his swimming lesson while Lauren played in the kidzone and mommy worked out for a bit. Then home for a snack, jammies and off to bed! I hope you all had a great day too!!

Love,
Megan, Chris, David and Lauren

January sillyness

January was not too busy, we just kind of got back into our regular schedule after the holidays were over. David started taking gymnastics and really likes it, he also continued with swimming and karate. Lauren likes to play in the kidzone at the YMCA while David takes classes and mommy and daddy work out.

Bathtime is always a favorite activity in our house :oD (Aunt Lauren, notice what little Lauren is even wearing in the bathtub?!)

gotta make sure those little teeth are clean . . .

After Lauren gets a little energy out playing "daredevil", it's snuggle time!!