March Randoms

I love the way these two play together. Miles is impressively patient with her - most of the time.

Piggies! (The hairstyle, not Paige and Matt.)

Family selfies.

Brooke organizing a "trip" with her brother and sister.

Smoothies.

Me and my girls.

Kids' Sunday at church. The kids said a couple of songs and recited a few verses they've memorized. It was very sweet.

We threw a birthday party for Isabelle, Brooke's doll, complete with a cake and candles.

Matt does his stretches every morning and when the kids are around, they join him. It's pretty cute.

Fun in the basement. Hopefully we can move the party outside soon.

So much personality. No words.

We've been able to get outside a few times the past few weeks.

 

Spiderman!

Playing at the playground of Madison, where Miles has his speech class.

And just like that, March is almost over...

A Month of Firsts

A few weeks ago, we noticed that two of Brooke's permanent teeth were poking through and asked her if the teeth above them were loose. Sure enough, in the span of a few days, one of them was REALLY loose. She came downstairs the night before Matt left for a trip (he hadn't wanted to miss it coming out) bleeding a little bit. Matt asked to "take a look" at the tooth and basically pulled it right out. She didn't even realize it had come out.

She's been wanting to lose a tooth for most of the school year, so she was obviously very excited.

Because Miles and Paige were asleep, she asked to keep the tooth an extra night.

And then she realized she wanted to keep her first lost tooth forever. (She commented the next day on how nice the tooth fairy's handwriting is compared to Santa's.) She got $5 for the tooth, which is apparently the going rate for the first tooth. The tooth fairy's purse strings tighten quite a bit after that.

While we were getting Miles's hair cut last week, I was commenting on her mullet. The hairstylist said that she could at least make it look a little better by layering the back. Paige is all about being a big kid lately, so she was thrilled to sit in the chair.

Miles was very encouraging and reassuring while she got it cut. I forgot to get an "after" shot, but it's definitely an improvement!

And just to cap things off, last weekend, Brooke pulled her OWN second tooth. This growing up really needs to stop.

Organized Athletics of Late

Winter activities are winding down and spring activities are beginning. I would say that Miles enjoyed his soccer practice, but we were all ready for it to be over.

Ditto for Brooke's indoor soccer league.

She showed the most aggression we've seen in her last game, and genuinely seems to enjoy herself, so onto spring soccer we go.

Brooke also finished her session at tumbling. Again, she was always happy to go, but I'm not sure it's something we'll revisit.

Ice skating was the first of the kids' spring sports to begin. Matt took the two big kids the weekend before their first lesson. It was, in his words, "On a scale of 1 to 10...a 1."

Thankfully, both kids really seem to be enjoying it after four lessons.

Brooke took a few tumbles that I think shook her up, but she hasn't complained or said a word about quitting.

And Miles really seems to love it. He's always asking when ice skating day is and smiles most of the time he's out there.

He's asked to do hockey next. We'll see...