Almost March?!

Adia hasn't worn her doctor's coat in a long time. I think it's because it disappeared in her trunk of dress up clothes (it's ridiculous how many she has!). Well, she found it a few days ago and wow has she grown! She got it 3 years ago for her 4th birthday.


And the rain came back with a vengeance. We've had almost 8 inches of rain this month and another storm is headed our way. It always seems to pour when it's time to pick up Adia, but at least the twins have fun.


Cheeto has really fallen in love with Mira and Adia. They've finally got to the point where they'll just sit or lay and he doesn't have to worry about getting kicked, punched, sat or rolled on. He sleeps with Mira or Adia most nights and hasn't been in my bed very often. However, the last few days he's appeared under the weather.


Daddy was supposed to do the Polar Plunge for Special Olympic Oregon earlier this month, but it was rescheduled because of our crazy snow and ice. This last Saturday was plunge day! It. Was. Cold. Actually, it was only 36 degrees. My hands and feet went numb despite wearing shoes and gloves. I'm always amazed that Daddy does it year after year. This was year 3 and he's hoping to raise even more money next year.


DiDi spent the weekend with us too. Tiger was happy. Naia actually tolerates DiDi's presence. Naia doesn't particularly like other people except her "pack" and even that's pushing it some days. She's Adia's cat and follows me around in hopes I'll give her a treat, but she doesn't actually like to be touched much.


Adia's 7th birthday party is this coming weekend so we've been trying to clean up the house. I told the twins that I'd tackle their room today and this was what I woke up to this morning.


Gee, thanks girls. Adia's assisted in the mess. They all helped remake the beds with clean sheets (DiDi's taught Adia well) and they all carried in the stuffed critters and pillows that were piled in the hallway. They earned the Popsicles they're eating in this picture and Adia was reading to them about Smokey the Bear. He visited her classroom today.


We had a beautiful day today. It was sunny and warm when we picked Adia up from school and to our surprise, dozens of ladybugs were crawling all over the grass! The twins were ecstatic and couldn't wait to show Adia when she came out of her classroom.


I'm hoping we'll be getting the twins bunk bed soon. The twins and I talked about it today and they're very excited about it. If they can sleep in their own beds all night, I told them we could get bunk beds sooner than their birthday. We'll see. Leia rarely sleeps in her bed all night

Wordless Wednesday

Thawing Out

Ah, freezing rain, I haven't seen in you many years. The last time I remember being iced over was in college and it was a few inches of ice on everything. I ice skated to class. It was terrible. This time we had 1/4-1/2 inch on everything. Our mailbox was an ice block, the butterfly tree was completely bent over our peach tree and the tree by the shed was bent completely over and touching our roof! We never lost power, but I thought for sure that we would. The lights did some flickering and brown outs, but the power stayed on.

We didn't get a whole lot more snow after the original dumping, but the girls had fun playing in what was there. Leia's still not so sure about the white stuff, but she had more fun this time than last. It helped that the temps were in the 20s and not near zero. The girls really liked trying to make a snow fort with sand toys.



Now the snow is turning to slush. We're supposed to have temps in the 40s this week and lots of rain. I think we're making up for the incredibly dry winter we've had.