I should he packing but I also figured I should get my blog up to date because I’m going to a blogger conference. So I’ll probably forget my underwear but at least anyone who looks will know what we did two weeks ago.

Sunday:

“Mommy take my picture on this rock like a magestic unicorn”

New England baby doesn’t care the water is freezing

Hikers

Monday:

Muffin helper

Chopping down a tree

INSISTS on walking on walls, even when blocked by bushes

Tuesday:

Peek a boo

Naps

More naps

Wednesday:

He loves feet

Puddle jumper

ALL THE NOPES FROM ME

Thursday:

Naps

More naps

SO EXCITED FOR THIS ROLL OF FILM

Friday:

Messsssssssss

Running in the daffodils

I love this view

Saturday:

Fresh eggs are the best eggs

Photographed a wedding at a castle!

Making mud pie on the back steps. In his pajamas.

I am watching Animaniacs with my children and trying to decide how many jokes to explain to them. Is “Boo-ryshikov” the chicken still funny if you don’t know there’s a person named Baryshnikov?

Considering how hard they are laughing, I think the answer is yes.

I had absolutely no idea I was three weeks behind until I tried to find photos from last week. I guess that means spring is making time go by faster, which is good, because this winter was approximately 746 months long.

Sunday:

I bought GIANT yarn because it would be fast, but I still haven’t finished

Gnocci with garlic bread from one of the boxes

Last minute book report finishing

 Monday:

Happy baby

Me: Evan, are you ok with Linc sleeping on you? Evan: Thumbs up.

Hurricane Lincoln

Tuesday:

Letting the toddler get his own food so I can watch Jill’s Tuesday playdate

Sweetheart

Too cool for my filters

Wednesday:

Home Depot Helpers

Doing homework in the sunbeams

Evan was not interested in me today

Thursday:

He was so excited to be “uppa”

Mid-afternoon toddler crash

I don’t know why they’re yelling

Friday:

Linc’s chores include letting the dog in and dumping all his food on the floor

Tired boy

In case she forgets her name

Saturday:

Chubby baby arms

These tiny beads are a pain but they keep the kids super busy

SEIZE THE DAY

I think I lost a week because of spring break. It was a black hole of time, between my parents visiting and E’s work schedule changing and having all four kids to watch full time. It has made it very clear that my goal for the summer should be to make sure at least one kid is signed up for an activity every week. So far we have two Seaport camps, town day camp and VBS. Maybe I should look into farm camp for my horse and chicken obsessed daughter.

More than half of this week’s photos are of sleeping children. It’s cold. It’s snowy. They were all sick. It’s effing February.

Sunday:

Still in bed when the sun comes up is UNHEARD OF these days

Eyelashes

Bedtime only happened because of this.

Monday:

I came downstairs Monday and they were already dressed for school…except it was anothiner snow day.

Baby Model

Modeling is hard work

Tuesday:

More eyelashes

Sick sickies recovering from the barfs

THIS ONE thinks he’s going to crawl. He is wrong.

Wednesday:

He’s shocked we actually left the house

Check up time!

Jealousy

Thursday:

MOAR NAPZ

MOAR SNOWZ

That splash is Evan

Friday:

Jerk baby sleeping in my spot.

There is SO MUCH I love in this picture

Playing with toys like he’s a real person

Saturday:

Those are hearts. It’s a lot harder than it looks.

Ice skating party with the ice queen

Aaaaaaand we out.

There was another blizzard this morning. I’m starting to feel very Little House on the Prairie – the one where they live in the town and it snows SO MUCH they have to climb out their second floor windows. That is a real possibility if we don’t get a thaw before we get more storms.

The kids are already off Monday/Tuesday for President’s Day and I’m suspicious they will miss Wednesday because of snow. I think I’ll spend the rest of the night googling flights to Florida or Bermuda or California, since if I am trapped in the house like this until April I am going to loose my marbles. This is when orders to Hawaii start looking really, really tempting.

I was going to say we did “nothing” this week, but apparently I am incorrect. We did nothing besides go to the beach and the aquarium and the grocery store and got ready for/attended Caroline’s dance recital. That was more than enough.

Sunday:

Be quite! I am working on my puter!

Traitor cat prefers my husband and doesn’t care if that hurts my feelings.

Footie jams in summer: sighting #1

Monday:

Outside swim lessons are exciting

Our collection of Wendy’s kid meal clicky things is now very impressive

Adorable sleeping hands

Tuesday:

Beluga watching

Obsessed with Friendly’s, like all good New England children

Aunt Amy sent Caroline some costume jewelry. Caroline likes ALL of it.

Wednesday:

He told me he was sailing to New York City

There is so. much. sand. in my car.

Dance recital finale practice is more fun for her than me

Thursday:

Grocery shopping is cause for fancy dress

Two of a kind

Dress rehearsal (The routine was to Deep In The Heart of Texas, which starts “The stars at night, are big and bright…”)

Friday:

8:30 am, lazy baby. (Footie jams #2)

You’d think she’s never seen grapes before.

Falling asleep on the couch is one of the best parts of summer (Footie jams #3)

Saturday:

Baby prep day! Now we can spy on the children without missing The World Cup…

We have one extra place to set the baby down (beside the borrowed rock’n’play and the free basket)…

And I have drunk so much red raspberry tea I might actually turn pink. COME ON BEBEH!

This was one of those weeks where I really love living in Connecticut. The weather was gorgeous, we enjoyed the aquarium and the beach, and I was struck by how small/friendly/nice our community is. We ran into people we knew everywhere, which is a pleasant thing to happen when I’m always thinking “What would happen right now if my water broke?” Not that I would just abandon my children at the park with a friend, but the fact that there are friends AROUND would make going into labor at Target less mortifying.

Two more weeks (and 3 days BUT WHO’S COUNTING) until my due date and if my What To Expect app asks me one more time “Have you had the baby yet?” I’m going to set it on fire.

Fun! Kidney stones! More fun! This week went by super fast, despite the break in the middle for allllllll the painkillers. It was the last full week of school too – Evan only has a few more days and then we’re all going to go work on our tans erry day.

Sunday:

Morning at the beach…

…afternoon in the sprinklers…

…evening at the playground. There was also lots of ice cream.

Monday:

Apparently this year we love the birds

She also loves the dumb 5 minute 4D version of Rio

Battles not worth fighting: Christmas jams in JUNE

Tuesday:

Guilty face

Lots of laying down because I wasn’t feeling great

Cuddles from this weirdo helped with the pain

Wednesday:

We have the same eyelashes

Our kid dentist is super fun

ALL THE DRUGS ARE BELONG TO ME

Thursday:

When your chart says “Clear liquids” this is the only edible thing they give you for breakfast.

There may have been a sliiiiight lack of supervision while I was in the hospital.

Friday:

Kindergarten orientation at his new big-kid school

She made a nest and passed out

Everyone wants to sit on Daddy

Saturday:

Who let this kid get so TALL? (Also pretend he’s not wearing the same clothes as yesterday. It’s another fight I’m not having.)

MORE couch naps. I have no idea what wore her out.

Evening walk to play with sparklers

We had a very nice Father’s Day (my husband just finished a rather large pitcher of mango margaritas) and I’m feeling much better. I have a couple of photo sessions this week that should be fun and easy and I have my fingers crossed I’ll get through the rest of this pregnancy problem-free. Technically I don’t HAVE to leave the house again until, like, September, so if I “waste” a few days lying on the couch while the kids watch Harry Potter movies we will all survive. Although like I said, the current plan is to beach it up as much as possible.