George Washington

Last night before bed we let Nolan take out some money from his piggy bank for the first time.  There's a book fair at school and I'm taking him to it tomorrow morning.  Adam was helping the boys sort through the money and was teaching them about the bills and coins.  I heard him ask Nolan if he knew what president's picture was on the dollar bill.  I was shocked to hear him say "George Washington".  He must have picked that up at school when they talked about President's Day!

It was fun to watch Nolan look through all the books to decide what he wanted to buy. He brought $10 with him and studied each section of books very carefully.  He ultimately decided that a Planes book with 3D glasses was his book of choice. He also bought a pen with a football attached to a string.  He thought it was so cool because there is a button to push and the football gets "throw" in the air.  He came home with $1.02 in his pocket.  So far he's read the book once, misplaced the 3D glasses and completely lost the football pen.  We had a little talk about responsibility!

Jane's helper

Nolan has been having a terrible week.  I'm not sure what's going on, but he is being quite defiant and throwing a lot more tantrums than normal.  It probably has something to do with the fact that he hasn't been able to burn off much energy lately because of the cold, and also because of all the attention that Elsa is getting from us.  Today Jane texted me a picture of him helping get lunch ready for the kids. I love that he helps at Jane's, but I think deep down he knows he needs to start behaving better and he wanted me to see that he is.  I hope he keeps it up!

First trip to urgent care

Elsa had been developing a cough/cold over the course of the last week.  She was super irritable and quite tired on Sunday, so we decided to just take her in to urgent care to rule out any respiratory issues.  I was surprised to hear that she has an ear infection.  She’s on a 10 day prescription, so hopefully that will knock it out.  They weighed her with her clothes on and a wet diaper, and she tipped the scales at 10.0 lbs!  It’s good to know she’s heading in the right direction.

Hot and cold

Grandma and Grandpa B taught the boys how to play the game hot or cold.  We were playing the other night and Nolan kept saying, “you’re hot, Mom, you’re hot!”  Talk about making a girl feel good about herselfJ

Baby Elsa

At the end of church today a few of the members came over to talk to us. They asked the boys what their little sister's name was.  Both boys announced proudly, in unison, "Baby Elsa".  I think no matter how she gets, she will always be the baby to the boys!

Snow, snow and more snow

This has been one heck of a winter.  On the way home from Jane's today I told the boys I wanted to take a picture of them in front of the snow banks.  Nolan, the peach that he is when he doesn't want to do something, replied "fine, mom, but I'm not smiling".  I didn't really care if he smiled or not, because his gator was covering his face!

Winter artwork

Both of the boys are becoming little artists.  Nolan really likes patterns and can free hand draw lots of cool things.  

Kale is currently obsessed with monsters.  He loves to draw them but doesn't like it when I put them on display in the house!