Valentine's Day caught us by surprise, at least a little. We celebrated by wearing our heart turtlenecks from Mama in Tennessee and showing our affection.
Sometimes a bit aggressively..
"I CAN DO IT" is heard a lot around here. Sometimes they can. Sometimes Mommy would prefer it done differently, but oh well. I have a feeling we're going to have Backwards Day a lot around here.
Another Valentine's Day development was that the girls found their panties while dismantling their room as Mommy took a shower. They put them on and kept them dry for the rest of the afternoon. This was a fluke, but it's encouraging. I'm waiting until March on purpose to reopen the issue of potty training. I can't imagine what I'd do in public with three hairtrigger bladders, and the thought of pottying a child by the side of the road in eleven degree weather two or three times an hour gives me anxiety. My plan is to spend all day outside in the sunshine with a potty close by when we decide to go cold turkey...
In the meantime, it's nice to think that we're closing in on the home stretch as far as diapers are concerned.
This is Carrie and Melina holding hands on the way to Chick-fil-A.
Melina: I'm scared of cows.
Mommy: Why, sweetie?
Melina: COW DON'T BITE ME!
Mommy: Cows don't bite little girls...
Melina: Cow don't bite my baby
Mommy: Has a cow ever bitten you before?
Melina: Noooo.....
Carrie and Melina stall at naptime by wanting to read stories to their babies. Well played, small set. I'm quite the sucker for anything that demonstrates emerging love of reading.
Mommy bought holiday cling stickers off the after sale rack, and now in the playroom it actually looks like I am "with it" enough to celebrate holidays.
They get peeled off and re-stuck several times a day. I give them two more weeks before they're in shreds.
We've checked off some pretty big items on our to-do list this month. First of all, our dryer now vents out a natural grate in the crawlspace instead of out the doggy door in the garage. Last week we replaced the rotted and rusted door and casing, so our garage is now at least warm enough to melt snow on a cold morning.
If you're wondering what Devon is wearing, it's Craig's solution to Devon missing his Thomas jammies that he wore every night in Florida. He now just wears them over his winter pajamas. And that's what we call a parenting WIN! It was Craig's idea.
I finally hung pictures in the kids' rooms. I've been so unmotivated in their rooms. Mostly it's because my only downtime is when they're in their rooms sleeping and I'm not going to risk going in there with a hammer and nails.
Also on my list this week was to open and display Christmas cards. I've been weeding them out of wherever they got shoved before, during, and shortly after the move. The center console of the car... the filing cabinet... my purse... a kitchen drawer... the pile of tax forms... So right now I'm enjoying all the lovely family pictures for the very first time, and it feels nice to see familiar faces.
The fridge is no longer in the mudroom! I had to wait an extra week for it because our icy front steps wouldn't support delivery. It's so nice to have that done! Craig and I catch ourselves picking up the milk and starting the walk through the living room.
We tried Valentine's Day crafts a week late. I opened brand new crayons, set out the stickers, and we made cards. All Devon would do was cut paper. All Melina and Carrie would do was spread glue. We sent them anyway.
It's been over fifty degrees for days now, and we're still trying to melt off all the snow. I'm kind of done with it. Not done with snow, but the snow that we have. The kind that's melted and refrozen too many times to be fun. The kind that the kids still want to walk on even though it is really slick. March is just around the corner, and some locals say that Noreaster snowstorms bring the heaviest snowfall for this area. We'll see.....
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