We're closing in on the end of March already! It's been a busy month with lots of activity.
I tried to get the kids to sit still for some pictures with Mommy, but life is just a blur sometimes. So Devon and Carrie headed off to church while sniffly Melina stayed home with Daddy. It's almost become a running joke: I just have that one black flowered dress with the pink sash and nothing really to match it. If only one of the twins goes to church, she usually wears the dress. When the Sunday School teachers see it, they know the other twin is home sick.
We've still been making our Greek yogurt and applesauce pancakes. The kids all get their step stools and stand around to help Mommy. This was way too overwhelming to even attempt mere months ago. They're getting better with taking turns and sharing. This is an encouraging step. Sometimes somebody gets sent to the table if things get too intense, usually with an orange to peel for something to do.
We're getting together our Spring list for house projects. We're trying our luck with an indoor herb garden, which might give us some fresh additions for cooking. I just finished painting the master bathroom, the first room in the house to get a Keathley chosen color. The kids are excited to have their rooms painted. They've been told that Mommy is very excited to paint their rooms, too, but that means that they have to take really good care of their walls. The fresh, clean paint of the new house has taken quite a beating in just one short year, especially in the kids' rooms.
Devon and Mommy enjoyed a pre-birthday trip to the mall. Five years old is apparently the official Lego birthday, so we browsed in the Lego store for the very first time. Devon declined a cupcake in favor of a very colorful cookie.
We're on Spring Break this week, so there are long, slow mornings of playtime on the floor and lunches eaten in pajamas. We're just glad everyone is finally well. A tummy bug laid us all out pretty flat for about a week. Mommy and Daddy started off, unusually, being too sick to be out of bed for an entire day! Not fun! For the first time ever, Devon missed a day of preschool just because nobody was well enough to drive him in.
Devon was the lucky one who never got sick. Carrie was sick first about a day after Mommy and Daddy.
Just when we were convinced that everyone was well and could resume our normal activities, Melina got sick. One minute she was at MOPS, eating a huge lunch and feeling fine. Then she was home on the couch sleeping the middle of the day away, which for my kids is always a bad, bad sign. We decided to decline all activities for a few days for all kids, tired of the cycle of get sick-get well-take everyone out-bring home a new bug-get sick again cycle.
March Madness has been fun this year, never more so than the recent Notre Dame cliffhanger. We're looking forward to the Final Four this weekend! Ally kitty, especially, loves being on the East Coast where the games are late and take place after bedtime for the kids....
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