I was just looking through old photos and found this from last year. Love it.

The boys have been at each other’s throats lately, taunting and egging each other on in a constant battle for equal attention, equal toys, equal food, equal fun and/or misery!  It has been exhausting!  Yesterday was especially terrible and I realized that they probably needed to get outside.  A lot.  So we did a full-family Nature Day at our neighborhood nature center, Woodlake.  Here we are “enjoying” our walk.  Actually we did have a nice, if not short, nature walk searching for signs of Spring and just getting some general fresh air.

Unfortunately the paths were still icy and we all did get a little cold so we ended up back inside the interpretive building yet again, but just in time to pet a snake!  Score!

When we got home it took a whole of about 60 seconds for the boys to find a reason battle with each other.

Recently we were lamenting with our friends Erin and Mike how anytime we get together it’s so difficult to actually have a conversation. So yesterday we stuck the kids in front of a full length movie (Arthur and Lewis’ first). Mary Poppins. I had never seen it and its really fun! In one scene when Mary Poppins first arrives she cleans up the house by snapping her fingers. Things fly around while silly music is being sung, and at one point a little boy can’t get out of the closet cause it keeps closing. It’s sorta funny, but Lewis thought it was very VERY funny. Here’s a photo of it after we rewinded and played it again so more adults could appreciate Lewis’ belly laugh.

Arthur had great difficulty peeling Evva away from the the babies to play.

And here’s Erin with Bailey.

Bailey was the B position baby in utero, which means she was the one on top, furthest away from the birth canal, and she conitues to be the B baby to this day. It’s uncanny!

Bailey was born breech and Bailey was bigger.
Bailey has a birthmark on her back.
Bailey is balding (but the new hair is growing back.)
Bailey has broad shoulders. (Netta has narrow shoulders.)
Bailey has blue eyes.
Bailey seems to look best in the black onsie. She’s a beatnik.
Bailey balked at eating banana.
Bailey babbles more. It’s true.
It’s a battle to get Bailey to bed.

If you can think of any other Bailey B-isms let us know.

My dear cousin, Cait, has been coming over to help with dinner and bedtime on Fridays since the girls were only a few weeks old and now Cait is cooking her own baby! Oh, it has been wonderful to have an excuse to have Cait over every week, especially now that she’s pregnant! I love hanging out with her and the kids do, too. Here is a classic picture of Cait in action, having just fed a fussy baby a bottle after trying to distract that baby with a toy Cait attempts to eat her pizza while Art tries to get her attention. I love you, Cait! I have more cute baby pants for you!

Today we went to watch uncle Josh play raquetball (photos coming later). And on our way out we noticed this incredibly huge pile of snow. That really is the top of tree poking out.