Last week.

Whew.  Life is busy.  If I don’t stay on top of the blog, it’s so easy to let it fall to the bottom of the to do list.  I’m going to attempt to recap last week in one post. 

Last week started my 3 week turn to help with preschool.  So fun!  These kids have changed so much since I taught them last in Sept.  You can tell they are just about ready for kindergarten!

Tuesday night Josh had a basketball game.  It’s much easier to take their picture when they are standing still and not moving around. lol.  Guess I need a nicer camera to do that.  Josh is the blond kid in case you can’t tell. lol.

Wednesday I spent most of the day doing my volunteering trade- off at the school.  Then we went straight to the church to help set up for New Beginnings.  The program that night was wonderful, and I couldn’t help but be thankful for our church’s youth programs.  One downside of the day though, Ella started to get real fussy again.

Thursday was Valentine’s Day.  Darrin brought me flowers, and I gave him a groupon to get his car detailed.  He also made us dinner that night.  The kids took Valentine’s to school and came home with tons of candy.  I cracked up when I found what Andrew wrote about Valentine’s Day.  Obviously he not in it for the l.o.v.e. yet…which is fine by me.

To me, Valentine’s Day means candy.

The kids working on their Valentine’s…

Ella, on the other hand, got her first Valentine.  It was from Hudson.

too cute.

I finally put Ella’s hair in a ponytail for the first time.  I love it, and I think Darrin does too.  The boys kept telling me how weird she looked.  But their favorite part was when I took the rubber band out, her hair stands up in a mohawk by all by itself.  

Friday I took Ella to the dr. thinking her ear infection was back.  There was no infection, but still fluid in one ear.  The dr. inspired me to stop swaddling Ella, so we did that night--cold turkey.  It wasn’t bad at all.  I think most of the time it’s harder on the parents than on the kid…babies are so resilient.   She looks so cute when she sleeps.  And notice the mohawk :)

Saturday Josh had another chess tournament.  This time he won 2nd place in the 3rd grade.  He was so happy about his ribbon. 

Well, that was last week…stay tuned for this week :)

And P.S. if you live in or near OK, I booked tickets to go during spring break (Mar 20-28) so come see us!