2 years!

I never planned to stop blogging, but without a good ipad app for blogger, I didn't have much choice. I don't get much time on an actual computer anymore and our desktop just bit it. Our hard drive went kaput, which I guess isn't too unusual when it's 7 years old! However, I'm using my 9 year old laptop! There's not much on it. I cannot multitask at all with it, but it works. I've managed to almost completely finish the yearbook on it and that's all I really needed it to do. Once again, there's not ipad app for that!

Soo... 2 years. The twins were preschoolers and 4 years old. Adia was only a 1st grader and had just turned 7. They're so much bigger and noisier and usually fun, but I've also learned that 6-7 year olds are NOT my favorite. I'm sure it's just a preview of the teenage years, but ugh. So. Many. Time. Outs.

We just started the soccer season. Adia plays on a U10 team. It's her second season and she loves it. She hurt her knee the night before the season started though and she's still favoring it. I predict a doctor's appointment in our near future. It's hard to tell if it's really hurt or she's milking it for all it's worth. It's horrible to say, but true.

This is the twins' 3rd season playing soccer. Adia watched them last spring and decided soccer might be interesting. Now she's addicted. She even likes to watch it on tv and we went to an Oregon Ducks game last fall. The twins are playing U8! They're the smallest on their team, but they're pretty fearless too. I don't know if that's necessarily a good thing, but at least they enjoy it.I'll be spending the next 6-8 weeks being a crazy soccer mom. Practices M-Th and games every Saturday. We won't talk about the stinky soccer gear. Best way to clean shin guards anyone? Blech.

Adia's been busy in 3rd grade. I can't believe the school year is almost over. Isn't it still September? It's been flying by. She loves her teacher, but her class gives her a headache. Lots of very noisy kids. Luckily her teacher understands and lets her read and work in the hallway when it gets particularly loud. The twins adore their teachers and are having an awesome year. Leia's reading chapter books and wants to be a librarian when she grows up! Mira's showing a talent for math. She's been learning multiplication facts from Adia. She's reading too and getting better every day, but doesn't seem to enjoy it quite so much as her sisters.

We're up to 2 cats and 2 dogs. We've had Lola for almost a year now. She's my little goofy chiweenie. She's the ultimate destructo-pup, but I love her so frickin' much. She requires daily walks or she gets bored and eats the couch, shoes, benches, anything really. She's so full of love and adores the girls. Her whole body wiggles when she's happy, especially when the girls come home from school. Her daily routine starts with a potty break outside, quickly followed by waking up Adia. She runs into her room, jumps on her bed and covers her face in kisses. It's the funniest thing ever. Cheeto still grumbles at Lola, but I think he'd miss her if she suddenly disappeared. I know she was unhappy when he spent the day at the vet getting his teeth cleaned. She likes the cats too. Naia's her buddy. I often catch them curled up together. When Naia went missing last week, Lola wouldn't rest until she was found. Lola's relationship with Tiger is a little more strained. She likes to chase him, he likes to fight back. Luckily there's been no bloodshed yet.

Since our hard drive died and I hadn't backed up all my pictures in 3 months, I lost most of them. I've been able to salvage some from facebook, walgreens and shutterfly, but sadly, it's not all of them. It makes me sad, but paying $750 to recover them, just didn't make sense. That was more than a new desktop! So I'll have to make due with what I have.

 I hope to write more soon. Maybe when the new computer comes.

Wordless Wednesday

Many Changes

It's been 6 months between these pictures. How has she aged so much?
 
  
October 2013

April 2014  

Teeth, Warm Weather, a 5K and Papa's Birthday

Adia lost teeth number 3 & 4 this month. Daddy says she has an ogre mouth. I'm just glad she can sort of eat again. Biting is still a problem and she has 2 more loose teeth.

The weather finally warmed up and we had several beautiful days. That led to more after dinner walks and trips to the park. The girls were stoked.


And spring planting:

Adia and I also did a 5K with her BFF's family. Her BFF's mom and I ended up chasing the girls almost the entire time, but we had a blast since they were belting out "Let It Go" almost the entire time, complete with arm motions and jumps.


We had more park time.


We went to Papa and Gramma's for a family dinner and got to enjoy the park again. We were also there last week to celebrate Papa's birthday. The girls love birthdays and couldn't wait to celebrate and eat cake. The park was also at the top of their list.


This last weekend was spent at DiDi's house. The girls were so excited to be there. On Sunday we went and saw "The Little Mermaid". Much of the cast were former or current students of DiDi. The girls LOVED it. The twins were especially surprised when they got to meet Ariel and Eric after.


It was incredibly hot in Florence though. It wasn't windy either, which is unheard of!

Legos!

The weekend after Adia's birthday, we headed to Portland for Bricks Cascade. The girls were excited to see (and buy) tons of legos and also ride the "train." We left home super early.


The girls got free mini figures and immediately wanted their picture taken with the Lego Movie display because duh, Everything is AWESOME!


There were a lot of repeat exhibits this year and the girls quickly lost interest. They mostly wanted to shop. Adia loaded up on Lego jewelry. She has a cool rainbow necklace, purple ring and barrette, and a pink and purple bracelet. They also bought some lego friends and mini figures.


They were starting to get hungry and hunger = epic meltdown with the girls. It was time to leave. We jumped back on the train and headed to eat lunch.


After lunch we headed to Powell's. You can't go to Portland without going to Powell's and what's better than legos, but books! The girls went nuts. The twins didn't remember Powell's from last time and they were in awe. "Mom, this bookstore is HUGE! Look at all the books!" They were in shock and they stocked up on books. It was starting to get late and we still needed to use up their Build a Bear gift cards. Once again, the twins had no memory of build a bear and they had an absolute blast.


We weren't thinking about it being a Saturday so when it came time to eat dinner, everywhere had a 30-45min wait. We ended up trying somewhere new and it took so long, Mira took a few bites and fell asleep at the table.

And as if life wasn't hectic enough, the Sunday after Adia's birthday party, I discovered Mira was infested with lice, which promptly jumped heads and got Leia, Adia and me. Luckily we caught Adia's early and they were eradicated. We spent a week sleeping on the playroom floor while I vacuumed everything twice a day, boiled hair stuff and fried everything I could in the dryer. I also combed and nitpicked hair more than I thought possible. Last Tuesday I chopped my hair off and dyed it (yay pixie cuts!), Leia cut off quite a few inches and Mira lost about an inch. Apparently it wasn't enough though because while washing hair on Sunday night, I found more on Mira. Lice - 1, Mom - 0. So it's back to treating heads, combing hair, vacuuming, sleeping in the playroom and frying everything in the dryer again. I'm losing my mind.


And if that isn't bad enough, Leia ran a fever all weekend while vomiting and spent Monday not being able to eat at all. Luckily, she seems much better today.


At least we had some sunny days where we went for walks and played at the park.

 
Adia also had a girl scout birthday party at Skateworld. I'm much better at roller skating than ice skating. Mira absolutely hated it and Adia thought it was harder than ice skating.