It snowed again yesterday. They had to move the Easter Egg hunt at church inside because of snow. I can’t.

Sunday:

Home Depot is always a family event

Weirdos

TA DA!

Monday:

Actual babywearing in action: cleaning, sorting, folding and putting away clothes to consign/donate/keep

Snack time

A girl of many skills

Tuesday:

Big kid, little kid fun at the aquarium

Eye appointment

Anyone want to buy a really soft wrap?

Wednesday:

Happy grocery store helper

New Ebay score = success

Not so into the monthday photos this time

Thursday:

SASS

SIT DOWN

Another Ebay find. I might be in trouble.

Friday:

Peeping bunnies

Her 100% self styled Easter outfit

I would be way better at eating healthy if they hadn’t put that 5 Guys in town

Saturday:

BABY GOAT PILE

Baby goat stand

Baby who also stands, but I’m way less happy about this one

I registered the big kids for super fun Mystic Seaport summer camps this week. Which made me think “Oh yeah, summer is coming, I’ll need to do something with the kids.” But unfortunately, planning for summer did not make summer come. Remind me not to complain AT ALL about a single hot day once they FINALLY get here.

April should be better though. A little warmer. More stuff to do. Evan’s birthday (no big party, just some fun). BABY GOATS. And my own birthday, which will probably go entirely uncelebrated besides the Facebook mentions, but since I’m turning a very boring 33 that won’t bother me much. I’ll be pretty happy with a nap and some Mexican food.

Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! We had a great week!

Sunday:

Couch naps is what vacation is all about.

NO STOP IT STOP IT NOW

I think E was wishing he was back at sea instead of playing the rainbow game

Monday:

Apparently he was very comfortable in that one

The post office was a poor choice

That looks like something I can put in my mouth! Give it to me!!!

Tuesday:

My husband and father murdered my bushes (I asked them to).

Why are we at the grocery store AGAIN?

I had a Lego emergency

Wednesday:

It’s a good thing I don’t like peanut butter blossoms, because I made a LOT of them

Doing her best statue of liberty impression

Pretty excited about our Christmas

Thursday:

Happy with her stash

His Christmas mostly involved doing this

Plasma car success!

Friday:

FAT BABY

SLEEPY BABY

HAPPY BABY

Saturday:

Disapproving grouper judges you

Santa?!

What does the fox say? Zzzzzzzzzz….

Linc has like, a million new teeth coming in right now, so he’s pretty miserable. We were supposed to go to Virginia this week but I can’t handle the car trip plus sleeping at someone else’s house with such a grumpy baby. Not when the alternative is staying home in my pajamas. I did manage to get ALL THE LAUNDRY done today (or at least as much as is physically possible when you have children) so I feel pretty good. Tomorrow my goal is to vacuum every floor/rug in the house. Or maybe I’ll just try to catch up on laundry again.

I took a nap today, because I felt like I might actually die if I didn’t. I’m not even crazy sleep deprived or anything, I had just hit the wall of touched-out and busy and mentally tired of staying on top of everything. Caroline’s party is this Saturday and Christmas is next week and then we have one more visit to finish up 2014…and then I am never leaving the house again. 2015 will be the year ALL THE THINGS get organized and clean using only supplies I can order through Amazon Prime so I don’t have to wear pants.

Sunday:

The toys in Ohio are more fun than any of the toys in Connecticut

SHUT UP WITH THOSE EYELASHES

Thank you Aunt Sara and Uncle Sean!

Monday:

I’m keeping this monstrosity on the DVR FOREVER

This is how he feels about the 12 hours we spent driving back from Ohio

THE GARDEN OF THE FUTURE did great without me here

Tuesday:

It’s weird that the post office is open in the dark

Still loves it. Judge me.

Cutest stomach tumor ever

Wednesday:

Grocery shopping is boring for him but excited for me because this wrap is super pretty

I told him about Santa

SWEATER PANTS!!!

Thursday:

Snow! On a day we didn’t have a delay. Unlike the day where we had a delay for rain.

Doesn’t care about the cold.

Helping me make dinner

Friday:

Less organized than the last time I posted a picture of our playdate stash

Olde Mystickee Villageeeee was decorated for Christmas

The aquarium was NOT FUN amounts of crowded, but at least we weren’t cold

Saturday (with extra pictures, because it was really fun!):

Why yes, I do look adorable in this sweater outfit and rainbow

The Florence Griswold Museum was like all my historic home dreams come true

AND WE FOUND ELSA

Fascinated by football at lunch

Pretending to be cold while we wait for Santa

He really likes the lights

I spent 30 minutes today gluing googly eyes to toothpicks for Caroline’s party (you’ll have to guess what for) and my plans for the evening include moving everything from my dining room to the basement so I can turn it into an under the sea wonderland. I am very far behind compared to previous party years. I’m refusing to worry though, because I will have LOTS of help with all the family in town, and I am sure they will be more than willing to hang up 100 green streamers and blow up 200 balloons. Or at least they will pretend to be happy to do it while wondering why I am insane.

I’m going to go against popular opinion here and say I LOVE the extra hour we get with fall back. I was exhausted at 10 pm last night so I went to sleep, and then woke up on my own 15 minutes before the alarm. It felt positively leisurely. I have no idea if my children got an extra hour of sleep, because they know better than to come wake me up unless the house is on fire.

Sunday:

Being awesome at the aquarium

His favorite part of the aquarium is the Titanic, which is creepier when he’s dressed like a shark

She shouted “I’m the queen mermaid of the world!!”

Monday:

Our favorite rainbow at our favorite store

Do I have something on my face?

My assistants for an evening shoot

Tuesday:

Beautiful spot for a morning photo shoot

“Nursing” her puppy is very zen

Beautiful spot for an evening photo shoot

Wednesday:

What are we going to do today Mom? Oh right, more photoshoots.

Slightly less scenic in this photo, but the pictures are AWESOME.

They cannot stop themselves from kicking leaves

Thursday:

My attempt at fancy hair was a flop

We are not fans of having to sit through swim clss

I’m not sure he actually even LIKES Panera, but he loves the buzzer

Friday:

Halloween legs

Halloween shirt

Halloween night! I’m a fisherman, he’s a goldfish.

Saturday:

I took Saturday off. Caroline watched Linc for me.

I’m only sort of kidding.

Although I still care of his favorite thing. Look at that baby smile.

The weekend was not at ALL relaxing due to a broken computer and a broken forehead, so I’m playing as much catch up as I can today. (Both are much better today, fingers crossed they stay that way.) I have zero photo shoots scheduled this week as of right now, but FIVE blog posts to write. Considering I can’t even get this one posted in a timely manner, it’s amazing anyone still reads. Maybe no one does. Maybe you’re all spambots. Or my mother. Hi Mom!

The aquarium always does fun stuff for Halloween and we’ve been going since Evan was a baby. This year the costume dress up weekend was “Pirate and Princess” themed. Unfortunately, I spend a bazillion dollars on costumes that are not pirates or princesses but were TOTALLY aquarium appropriate…so the kids dressed up anyway.

Although they weren’t eligible for the pirate/princess costume contests, I can promise you Evan won Unofficial Best Costume, just based on the fact that EVERY person we saw commented on it. Because it’s AMAZING.

p.s. The weird spacing thing on photos with captions makes me crazy but I cannot fix it so try not to let it drive you crazy too.

She traded her mermaid crown for one she made in the craft room

LOOK AT THAT COSTUME

They loved all the throwing games to win “pirate gold”

I wonder if the seals are getting nervous about the shark staring at them.

There’s an art installation set up about ocean pollution. This one was adorable/sad.

He’s goldfish. FYI.

Evan saw the pirate and yelled “JACK SPARROW!” and the pirate said “CAPTAIN. It’s CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow!” This was like the 5th time we ran into him just walking around, obviously they’re BFF’s now.

This is the best I can do for family photos right now.

Sorry Linc.

Then we went home and painted/carved pumpkins, something we never managed to get around to last year. Painting is genius, since carving is such a PITA.