Pinewood derby

We had the derby today and the boys raced cars

Everyone lined up to watch

Tessa too

Here's Jamie's car in the sibling race. He's the far right.

Here's Charlie's. He's second from the left, and he came in second. He came in second overall for Tigers.

Here he is with "Rocket"

Good to be the baby

Toes in one hand, Owen fur in the other

Chewing

Oh Sophie will do as Tessa wants, yes she will. And that bird too.

"I play cookie"

Nora, in competition with her siblings, has been having a blast with play cookies. I eat them every day.

Also she got slippers and she is very proud.

Sitting. Ish

It takes all her concentration. She can barely smile for us.

Hail

It hailed today. A lot. The most hail I've ever seen. And the kids were riveted. So I googled hail and read it to them let them go collect a couple hailstones and ta-da! Science. Hashtag homeschool.

Jumperoo

Look who's big enough now!

Her toes only barely touch 

Minnesota visit

Tessa and I flew to St. Paul to see aunt Kelsey.

Here we are at the airport. It's 6am. She's confused.

Now it's 6:45 and she's suuuuper tired and also confused.

Now we're on the plane and it's 7:30 and she's exhausted and still confused but this is all so entertaining.

We also saw grandma and grandpa and Maki the cat

Tessa helped grandma play euchre. Not enough though, Kelsey and I won

Thanks for a good visit, Kelsey and Lisa!

Haircut

Lucy got a haircut

Here she is before

She likes it shorter and always asks me to cut it really short. So we did!

She says "I think I look aDORable"

5

Tessa got this five guys sticker on herself somehow and it's so appropriate. Here's to baby 5, and also hot dogs.

Nora Explanations

I've been wanting to get Nora talking on video, but it's always noisy. She and Tessa were keeping me company while I brushed my teeth and she was being very loquacious. She's hard to understand sometimes but she does have a lot to say. And Tessa is very cute.




Here I got her to repeat several things she'd just been telling me and then she offers some Butterscotch commentary

Tess and Owen

Friends forever

She gets his fur, he gets her fingers. Good trade

Queen

Look who found the ring in the (coffee) cake! We hope she rules benevolently. Happy Epiphany!

Donut

Will crawl for donuts?

Nora believes

Tessa

Here are a couple cute pictures from this week

She loves lying on the floor. Especially if she's not wearing anything on her legs.

If there is something cuter than a sleeping baby, I don't know what it is. (Thanks Crystal for the blanket- another success!)

Charlie and grandma

Charlie's reading is coming along very well and he was reading grandma a Mr Putter book we got for Christmas.