February

This month is flying by; February always seems to do that.  I know it is a shorter month but still I can not believe it is half over. Time flew especially fast this past week since Peter was gone for 4 days.

Friday morning when Lily saw Peter it was so fun- "Daddy! Your home!"

These 3 girls keep us smiling (okay the boys do too)! 

Lily loves to sit and look at books. At the end of the day, it is not uncommon to find her like this or right when the others are getting home from school and the house is about to get loud. 

Arabella loves to strike a pose. She has so much to say about school and loves to share every little detail. 

Samantha is growing and changing so much. She scoots around and makes us all smile! She is starting to pull open cupboards and pull things off of shelves. I love to watch them explore. She will sometimes get her hands full of things and try to pick up something else and get so mad when she can not quite grasp one more thing. She has decided that it is much more fun to get your one year molars at 10 months. She has been pretty good through it. Friday night she had her fist stomach bug and threw up three times within a few hours. The third one was projectile onto Peter's back when he was flying off of the couch to try and get the bowl that she had thrown to the ground and had rolled away. I hate when little bitty kids are vomiting- they have this look on their face like "what is my body doing and why are you letting this happen". She recovered pretty quick and within minutes was playing again. She was better on Saturday- hopefully it is over. 

I hope we can make the most of the rest of February. Up on our calendar is: Parent night for new 6th graders at the junior high, Jon's 3rd grade music performance, the Blue and Gold banquet, Joseph's first merit badge college, Primary training meeting with Cheryl A. Esplin of the general Primary presidency, Peter has a trial in McAllen, and of course the usual work, school, dance, story time, swimming (Jon), taekwondo, piano, etc.