There was a lot of babywearing this week because the weather was bad and we didn’t go many places.

AND THEY JUST CANCELED SCHOOL FOR TOMORROW. Is it spring yet?

Sunday:

My first baby whose head isn’t the least bit flat

All natural teether

GO PATRIOTS

Monday:

Brotherly love

Superbowl hangover

Still loves the neck floaty

Tuesday:

How’s my hair?

2.5 hours like this, while I did ALL the laundry

Good dog Brutus

Wednesday:

Spirit week: Wacky Day

Baby’s First Button Down

Is it clear yet that a) I love back carries and b) I REALLY need a good anti-aging moisturizer?

Thursday:

When you have this much snow, you have to actually REMOVE it, not just plow it.

Spirit Week: Storybook Character Day

My Lego Star Wars game brings all the boys to the yard

Friday:

Spirit Week: Fancy Day

MomFest Rainbow Playdate

OBSESSED

Saturday:

This one is my new favorite

My eyes do that exact same uneven thing

How he is managing to sleep like that I have NO idea

We taught someone else Hand & Foot so now we can play ALL THE TIME.

I am going to finish this, publish it, feed the baby and then go to the grocery store at 9 pm because that sounds way better than going with all 3 kids in the snow tomorrow. Uggggggghhhhhhhhh. Seriously, can it be May now?

There is a lot of my face in this post, which is weird. I am not a selfie person, but when all you do is hold or nurse a baby there isn’t that much else to take pictures of.

Sunday:

They will never get tired of swinging.

Even the litter in Mystic is classier than regular litter.

That bubble gun is identical to the one we bought the exact same weekend last year. It lasted exactly as long (10 minutes).

Monday:

I feel so naked in this photo because I took the case off my iPhone.

A+ for adorable sleeping

OMG I ACTUALLY PICKED UP MY NEEDLES

Tuesday:

School bus buddies

GTFO Big Lots

I’ll never get tired of how people react to this thing.

Wednesday:

Uniform on top, her own wacky fashion on the bottom

Mmmmmmmmm homework

Multitasking: feeding a baby, breaking in a woven wrap, transferring pictures, Facebooking and cuddling a cat. WHILE TAKING A PICTURE.

 Thursday:

Happy baby, happy octopus shirt, happy monkey diaper

More school bus fashion

Bathtime smiles

Friday:

I’m at the ATT store and smiling. CAN YOU GUESS WHY?

Sometimes your mom knits a newborn hat and then uses you unwillingly as a guinea pig

Sooooo…I have this new hobby. Habit. Obsession? #tryallthewraps

Saturday:

I swear that face is the reaction to the cow barn at The Big E, not the hat.

Clam fritters and Del’s – Rhode Island wins at food

Caroline does not look nearly terrified enough

I am already done with this week and it’s only Sunday night. I haven’t felt this tired since the night I didn’t get any sleep because I was giving birth. And even then my back didn’t hurt so much thanks to the epidural. I plan to be in bed by 8 as many times this week as I can.

200 WEEKS of mostly terrible, blurry, boring photos of the normal stuff we do every day. I have no idea why I’ve kept this up for so long but I’m glad I have. The first week I did it, I was pregnant with Caroline. This week, she went to her first day of real school. Never has 200 weeks seemed so short.

Sunday:

Grocery shopping with 3 kids is a pain, but a baby who sleeps the whole time makes it better

This haircut cost me $37 – $17 for cut + tip, $20 for the Legos I promised him if he just SAT STILL

“This chair is like my THRONE!”

 Monday:

Making zucchini bread in our pajamas

That Lego set was totally worth the $20

He sleeps with his eyes open. NOT CREEPY AT ALL.

Tuesday:

“Mommy, I love love LOVE Baby Lincoln!”

Showing off his kindergarten cubby at orientation

No one wants to hold my hand when Daddy makes an appearance.

Wednesday:

All summer long the kids have been up at 6 am. I took this at 7:10 on Evan’s first day of school.

It’s such a shame she’s so shy and quiet.

Linc agrees that school starting is very exciting.

Thursday:

Obviously they’ve got the moves

I think her first day was fun?

Entertaining ourselves with shadows while we wait (FOREVERRRRRR) for Evan’s bus

Friday:

I really hope she comes out of her shell at school.

Showing off his brother to his best friend

Farmer’s Market night gets an A+++++ for food and friends

Saturday:

I spent most of the morning like this. It was lovely.

They’ve never met a big, flat field they didn’t want to run across

My photography assistant fell asleep on the job. Again.

And there you go, 21 more unremarkable pictures of our life. The only thing that’s going to change in the near future is I’m going to upgrade my iPhone, so maybe my pictures will get slightly better. Although not more interesting. We’re pretty boring, and I’m OK with that.

I think I forgot to do the questions last year. I’m not even sure I took pictures of Caroline’s first day – I can’t find the post. But this year was a big year for both kids. Caroline started taking a BUS to a big school EVERY DAY and Evan started FULL DAY kindergarten so I took the time to look up the questions from 2 years ago and did it again. Plus Caroline REALLY wanted me to ask her what her favorite food was for some reason.

The first couple of days have been amazing for them and crazy stressful for me. Our school district buses everyone and encourages us to take advantage of the buses. Both schools (Caroline is at the special pre-K-only building, Evan’s at the magnet elementary school a few miles away) have very limited parking and no drop-off area for parents, just buses. I WANT the kids to take the bus. But the bus system is, to put it nicely, crap. The bus numbers we were given – the official ones, the ones printed on their tags – are not ACTUALLY their bus numbers. No one is actually sure why. Every bus has been late. Caroline’s morning bus was the least late, only 5 minutes. Evan’s afternoon bus was 45 minutes late the first day and 75 MINUTES LATE the second day. He was somehow put on the wrong bus on the wrong route and then taken back to the school and…you know what? I don’t want to talk about it. It was crappy. I was pissed. But the school handled it, he made it home no worse for the wear.

Both kids love their teachers, both kids love their uniforms, both kids love their new backpacks, both kids had zero tears or worries about leaving me. I am completely amazed I grew 2 little people who are so confident and outgoing and brave. I am also REALLY happy I have one little person at home who still needs me constantly so I don’t have time to be too depressed about the big kids. BIG KIDS. LOOK AT HOW BIG THEY ARE.

This is her face when she saw her bus coming up the street.

Schooooooools out for summer! Good thing schools not out forever, or I would already be going insane. For now I’m planning to enjoy as much sleeping as possible.

Sunday:

E is baffled why ANYONE would lie in the horrible, horrible sand, let alone someone who shares his DNA

The weirdo that made him a father, celebrating Father’s Day at Chili’s.

Wizards in training

Monday:

Bed head

She insisted Baby Jesus needed to come to the post office with us

The princess demanded a strawberry coolata. Princesses run on Dunkin.

Tuesday:

Snacks in her chair are her new favorite.

Next year they will BOTH be getting on buses to go to school.

Monsters at the grocery store. MONSTERS.

Wednesday:

Both kids wanted to give the afternoon driver a present. They’re going to miss her.

Water slide party at Stay & Play!

Creepy baby watches you in the bath.

Thursday:

Morning puppet shows

Afternoon weridos in boxes

Evening photo assistants

Friday:

Stroller Strides in our AWESOME Cocoon X2. They love it.

Free Fanta Orange samples at BJ’s. You can see the crazy sugar high in her eyes.

MOAR MAGIC SPARKLERS

Saturday:

I went to a (sad) estate sale where everything left in the house was for sale. I wish there was a way to go back in after the new owners fix it up, it’s going to be GORGEOUS.

I bought a stool at the estate sale. They are insisting it is a table.

Chugging her lemonade while refusing her dinner.

Tomorrow we start summer (outside!) swim lessons with the kids in two separate classes. Evan will be with bigger kids who I hope will challenge him. He’s the kind of kid who sees someone doing something cool and immediately wants to know how soon he can do it too.

Tomorrow I also start putting the nursery together FOR REAL because I cannot have a baby when I have NOWHERE to put it. And I would really like to have a baby ASAP.  An outside baby would mean no more heartburn, which at this point is so bad I spend half the night staring at my bottle of Tums thinking “Oh, those kidney stones aren’t SO bad”. Plus after the actual getting-out part my pelvis wouldn’t hurt so much. You KNOW this is why nature makes the end of pregnancy so miserable – because it has to be BAD before you start hoping to push a watermelon out of your lady parts. I am ready for the watermelon.