February

February was a lot like January. Crazy cold with tons of snow.

Mila's birthday was on the 13th, but Sam was out of town until the next day so we planned to not do anything without him except go to Mila's choice of restaurant.

The night before, I covered her door with streamers after she went to sleep to surprise her first thing. I was hoping to wake up before she did and see her first reaction, but she woke up before me and crawled underneath them and came to get me. She was so excited! She crawled back in to her room and then busted through them.

School was cancelled on her birthday, and the roads were too bad to go to a restaurant so she had a really lame day. I felt so bad! But she was so grown up and sweet about it and didn't even complain that she didn't get to open any presents. She did get to play in the snow for hours while I dug us out. Since we live in a townhouse with a postage stamp for a yard, there literally was nowhere to put all the snow except for up.
Mila on top of one of the snow mountains in our neighbor's yard.

Emmitt helping me clear the driveway.

School was also cancelled on Valentine's Day. After some more snow shoveling to get out of our driveway, we went to Red Robin for Mila's birthday meal. I thought it was kind of a funny choice for a six-year-old, but the last time we went was with friends so every time we drive past she reminds me that she ate there with Ana.

She told me that she wanted them to sing to her for her birthday, so I asked our waitress when we ordered, but then Mila was nervous for most of the meal about it actually happening. She is funny like that. She barely looked at them while they sang. In the end, she decided it was totally worth the nerves for the ice cream sundae. She talked for the rest of the day about how she couldn't believe that they brought her a sundae, and she kept asking me if I knew that they were going to do that.

37 weeks. Almost there! Sam is out of town again until the night of March 12, so I'm praying that our little guy does not come early.  

A few days ago Emmitt really wanted to wear this shirt even though I tried to tell him that it was  a bit too small. Then he wanted all the buttons buttoned, but I told him that he would be more comfortable if we left the very top one unbuttoned and that we usually only button the very top button if he's going to wear a tie. He insisted on having all the buttons buttoned, and I left it at that. The next time I saw him he was wearing a tie. 

On Friday Mila had mismatched day at school. She was so excited about its arrival and couldn't wait to go to school in her funky outfit. After school, I asked her how mismatched day was and if she liked everyone else's funny outfits. She said one boy wore two different shoes, but other than that she was the only one who remembered! She didn't care at all. I laughed so hard! I could only think that in a few years something like this will matter to her a lot more. I like her not caring.  

And the next time I post it will be to introduce my new little handsome!

Happy 6th Birthday, Mila!

On the 15th, Mila had her first birthday party with friends. This is literally the first year that we have been healthy enough to have people over or to feel better in time to get a party together. The weather was a bit nasty outside, so we were glad that most of her friends could come. She has such a cute little group of friends here. We have been so lucky!

Mila chose to have a Valentine's Tea Party to celebrate.

The girls decorated crowns to wear,

decorated their own tea cups,

 played pin the lips on Mrs. Valentine and Valentine Bingo.

 Singing the birthday song.

 

Mila told me she was blowing the candle out with a kiss. So very like Mila :)

Enjoying strawberry cupcakes and drinking punch from their decorated teacups.

Happy Birthday, cute girl!

Mila still loves drawing and coloring. She sings non-stop and has loved taking piano lessons since she now has another way to make music. Her favorite color is still pink with purple in close second. She is very thoughtful and is constantly making drawings, cards, and little gifts for family and friends. She is a patient big sister and such a help to me around the house, especially now that I am huge. She is a quick learner, and it has been a delight to watch our sweet girl grow this year. 

January

Not a whole lot happened in January. It was bitterly cold and very snowy. We did a lot of shoveling and had lots of school delays and closings

One snow day Mila and Emmit built this cute little snowman out of big snow chunks all by themselves. Emmitt was too busy scaling snow mountains to get a picture with it.

Mila got Emmitt this weird glow-in-the-dark pointing skeleton hand at the book fair in the fall. I really just want to throw it away because it never seems to get put away and I think it's pretty useless. Emmitt loves it though. Here he is using it to roast a marshmallow on the kitchen floor. He colored the paper with orange and red crayons and crumpled it up to make a fire. Then he put the marshmallow on the pointing finger to roast.

And to my joy, Mila got Emmitt another pointer finger at the Christmas store at school. She said she didn't know what to get him, but thought that he would like another pointer finger. Thanks, Mila. But still, he loves them. 

Here he is using both of them as oars to propel his bale of toilet paper along. He also played with this toilet paper for days. It became all sorts of things over the couple of days that I left it out. I wish my imagination was still as sharp.

Here I am at 32 weeks. Pardon the weird bunch in the back of my dress. I do not in fact have a smaller bum growing on top of my actual bum. Thank goodness.

Photo courtesy of Mila.

That pretty much covers it.