March Update!

Well here I thought I'd have more time to write, and it's been about 6 weeks since my last post! Pictures help me remember, so I'm going to upload a few so you can see what we've been up to since Valentine's Day :)

Monday, February 24: Levi completed his first Bully Battle against Mr. BJ (his jiu jitsu instructor) and passed! He earned his first belt {shown below}. He had to use all of the moves he'd been working on for the past year to "wear down" a bully for 3 minutes. It was so awesome to see him use his moves instinctively. I was so proud of him!

 Afterwards, we went to Chick-Fil-A to celebrate!

 Wednesday, March 4: We took a hike at Happy Rock park with our Wild+Free friends. The girls had fun climbing the ropes! We listened to birds, explored the stream, saw a snake, and had fun with friends.

 Thursday, March 5: The first week of March was a week break from school. So the boys got to go up to Mimi's for an overnight trip! They visited great-grandma Lila, went bowling, and rode their new ATV. They had a great time!

 While they were gone, the girls and I got to have some special, more quiet time together :) We had a chocolate milk tea party and played games.

 Tuesday, March 10: I decided to braid the girls' hair after bath time. Naomi looks so grown up doesn't she? I love their sister picture too.

This big girl is officially potty trained! I haven't changed diapers since the end of February! Woohoo! 

 Thursday, March 12: Our new handicraft -- Finger Knitting! I thought Zeke might enjoy learning how and indeed he has! The first day we practiced one finger knitting, and now he is working on 4-finger knitting. We have a couple of books from the library that are full of projects, so you may have a hint as to a gift you'll be receiving from Zeke in the coming year ;)

 Tuesday, March 17: Happy St. Patrick's Day! I picked up Lucky Charms for breakfast {ha!} and we made some green sugar cookie bars for dessert. And that was our celebration. In addition, to reading several books about St. Patrick. With the coronavirus scaring everyone, the kids had their first Kick class at home through the computer. The girls had fun joining in on some of the workout!

 Friday, March 20: It was Levi's month for special time with me. Since we weren't allowed to go anywhere to eat, we ran through Caribou Coffee's drive-thru and shared a large hot chocolate with coconut milk and caramel. It was delicious! Then we went to the park for some sunshine and social distancing and played tag and listened to birds and enjoyed our drink.

 Later at home, Pop-Pop helped Zeke fire up his steam engine from Uncle Rob. They put in the fuel and water and let it heat up, then we saw all the pieces moving and the little whistle blew and it was pretty neat! Especially since we'd been reading "The Long Winter" and they used a steam engine for the train at that time in Laura's life.

 Saturday, March 21: Family dinner at Aunt Teresa's house; listening to Uncle Paul read us the letter from the KC mayor telling us to "stay home" and what essential activities are allowed. Life is a little weird these days. But I'm staying hopeful that this will all be over soon! Summer's coming :)

 Sunday, March 22: Pop-Pop spent time with us most of Sunday and drew a little farm picture for Naomi.

 I will always love pictures of my kids sleeping.

 Wednesday, March 25: A beautiful day for a bike ride! We all went outside and rode up to Prairie Point school. We met Aunt Teresa and Miriam there so the kids could see each other and burn off some energy. It was a beautiful day and we ended up spending 4 hours outside! Naomi is enjoying getting some rides in the bike trailer and I'm thankful that I'm in shape enough to pull her around with all the hills we have in town! This might be our favorite mode of transportation for the next 27 days, but maybe even all spring, summer, and fall! 

To life... full of dealing with curveballs and being thankful for technology to stay connected!