Updates

Last week the boys and Mama all came down with some kind of nasty upper respiratory infection. It made me stuffy by the weekend but the boys seemed to have good days and bad days. By Saturday we all needed to go to the doctor, where both boys were diagnosed with double ear infections and I was diagnosed with a sinus infection and bronchitis. Jeff still seems to be doing fine but the rest of us are on antibiotics. After they got back from the doctor I painted the boys' toenails and they took a bath.

Also last weekend we experimented with separating the boys. They have been fighting a LOT, both at school and at home, and it seemed like they were due for some time apart. So Daddy drove Theo to Grandma Kathy and Grandpa Greg's house Sunday morning, and Grandpa Greg brought him back Monday evening. Beckett had a whole day at school and afterschool by himself, and Theo had a whole two days by himself with grandparents. Both boys had a great time, as reported by all, which has solidified in my mind that separate classrooms would be ideal for them next year AND that we should make more of an effort to separate them and have special time with each of them, either with us or with other special people in their lives. 
 
Tuesday was the first legitimately beautiful day of the spring, FINALLY. We enjoyed some bubble time in the backyard.

Nesting

The boys are getting into the preparations for the baby as well.

Big News

It's been a long time, and we are thrilled to report that...

Theo and Beckett are now tucking themselves in at night. It turns out all we had to do was ask. They've always yelled for us to come in when they needed to be tucked in, which now includes after they've gone to the toilet in the night. But I've been having a hard time falling back to sleep after being woken up in the night, being all giant and pregnant with heartburn and such, after they get up to go potty and then ask to be re-tucked in. Or someone wakes us up screaming, we run in, and the only problem is that their blanket is slightly askew over their bodies. So about four days ago we said if there were no wakeups in the night for tucking in, we could watch a short movie in the morning after breakfast. No wakeups since! They get up, use the toilet, tuck themselves back in, and go to sleep! Amazing! Just in time for a new baby to arrive and wake us up multiple times in the night.

The first beautiful Sunday calls for trampolining in the backyard!

Last Thursday we met Sara and Preston at the Santaro Park playground when it was 50+ degrees out and sunny. The whole park was still closed, so we had to park at the elder community across the street and cross with our bikes under the closed and locked gate, but then we had the entire parking lot and playground to ourselves. The awesome bike track was still pretty snow-covered but the boys had a great time riding around the parking lot, then tromping through the snow to the play structures. Thankfully Sara brought extra gloves so that cold, muddy hands could be warmed up. My boys were so muddy after all the playing that I stripped them both naked in the parking lot of the elder community, had them pee next to the car, and then had them ride home buck naked. Because we're classy like that.

Wednesday night I was talking to the boys about how I would be home with them the next day, and I asked them what they wanted to do. I suggested going to the trampoline place to bounce around. Beckett said, kind of quietly, but with a huge grin on his face, "You could stab yourself in the face with a fork!"

Jeff and I have continued to laugh out loud at that one. Where on earth did he come up with that??

Wet, cold spring

When it's late March and still snowy and cold, why not take out the Trader Joe's gingerbread house kit that's been sitting in the closet since November? 

Theo waited a respectable two hours before chowing down on the house.