1st Time Bowling

We have never taken them bowling before and I don't know why! Needless to say, they loved it! Who doesn't love bowling? They even had shoes small enough for Olivia, even though she didn't actually bowl. They said she still needed them on. She was happy to wear them.

Lily Bowling

Isabelle Bowling

Chloe Bowling

Spring Snow

Check out these frosty spikes that appeared everwhere overnight! It makes the cold seem that much more biting....

And Chloes's awesome snowman! Not bad for a 4 year old. Better than I can do actually.

Having fun with the sticky, spring snow:

Skating at Auburn Bay

Getting all laced up. (Notice the absence of Ben's crutches? Yay! Chloe prays every night that, "Daddy will be able to run again soon.")

Brrrrr....It was chilly out in the open, but still fun.

Olivia At 19 months

She has really started talking and communicating with us verbally a lot more. If we repeat what she says in normal, non baby talk, she grins and grins and is so happy we understand her. She often says the following:

-"bish" meaning fish. She loves to point them out in books and pictures.
-"bus" she says perfectly! She loves to wait for the older girls to come home from school with me, and will even say "Da. Da. Bus!" which means, Where's The Bus? I guess I have said that one too many times...
-She can now say YES perfectly, after saying "SES" for the longest time. She says "Uh uh" for no.
-"I ull" which means I'm full. She copied that one from her sisters and now says it whenever she is done eating.
-"Boops" for boots.
-"Aben" and the end of prayer for amen.
-When I comb her hair, in a high pitched voice she says, "Ooowwww, Ooooowwww!" even though there are no knots in her hair. She again, just copies her sisters, who are usually yelling that because they have many knots in their hair.
-"Duck" She loves the Lucky Ducks game we have.
-"Bok" for blocks
-When the girls are being too loud and silly she'll put her hand up and say, "Op it! Op it!" for stop it, and put her finger to her lips and say, "Ssssssssssss!"
-The cutest of all for me is when she puts her hands on my cheeks and very quietly and sweetly says, "Mama, wawer?" Which I translate into, mama can I have some water? Or she'll do the same thing and say, "Mama, baba?" Mama can I have a bottle?

This is a new pose she pulls lately, she tilts her head to the side and grins. Here she is doing it after she built this tower:

And again, while helping me sweep wearing Lily's "boops":

Poor girl right now is very sick, and very sleepy. Twice today I caught her like this:

Soooo tired!