Lincoln and Annika like to play with their friend Porter. Porter is a HUGE fan of Batman so when we visit at Porter's house the three kids like to dress up like Batman.
Joseph and I had an early Valentine's date to the opera. We saw La Traviata. We enjoyed it and I think I like the opera better than the ballet. It was well worth getting to bed late.
We had a little more snow fall, but to be honest, we have had such a warm February. All of our snow is gone and it looks more like the end of March than the end of February. Lincoln LOVES snow. He will play outside in it for hours as long as he has someone outside watching him. He loves to get the toy stroller and use it as his snowblower. I love his imagination; in the summer the stroller is a lawn mower and in the winter it doubles as a snow blower.
Edie had a few rough weeks where she wasn't taking very long naps and getting up earlier than usual. I finally turned a fan on in her room for white noise and that has solved the nap time problem. She is now back to her 2-3 hour naps. Edie took her first steps on February 5th. I fully expected her to be walking full-time by now, but she still prefers to scoot on her bottom or crawl. She gets sad when she can't go outside and play with the big kids, but until she is walking I don't want her crawling through the mud. February and March are just too muddy and squishy outside for someone who doesn't walk.
Lincoln and Annika took their first trip to the dentist. They did great. No cavities, but I would have been surprised if they did have cavities.
Rebecah also had a trip to the dentist to have 2 teeth pulled. She needed 2 baby teeth pulled so she can have an expander put in her mouth. She was a little nervous about having her teeth pulled and I was, too. I had 2 teeth pulled when I was 6 1/2 and I remember tears running down my face because the shots hurt so bad. Rebecah was SO brave. She said the shots weren't too bad, but the actual pulling was intense. She wasn't numb enough for the second tooth and she said it hurt a LOT!
Her teeth were pretty big for baby teeth. We compared her teeth to my teeth that I had pulled and they were about the same size. The tooth fairy was extra generous so that helped to sweeten the ordeal.
Joseph has been wanting to put moulding around our wall cutouts for years and he finally did it. He just put the moulding around one cut out, but it looks great. He'll do the other cut outs as he has time. Lincoln had fun helping to tear the corner round out of the wall. It wasn't quite as messy as I feared it would be and didn't take Joseph as long either. I think it looks really nice. Take a look:
The kids had Winter Break this month. We didn't do anything too exciting, but Kimball finally decided to read the Harry Potter series. Over break he finished books 1-3 and is halfway through book 4. He really likes them and wondered why he waited so long to follow his mom's suggestion to read the series! Kimball also came home and told us that he is 3 chair in the cello section. There are about 23 cellists and we were shocked when he told us he was 3rd chair. His practicing is only half-hearted and the orchestra is 5th, 6th, and 7th grade. He did tell me that he wishes he weren't so good at the cello so it would be easier to quit! We love our Kimball!
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