Snippets of the first half of March...

Ever since her birthday Sara has been in love with helium balloons... or "Blooo! Blooo!" as she calls them. She got this particular one when we were leaving Fry's one morning, they had them hanging everywhere near the entrance, when she saw them she excitedly started squealing her "Bloooo! Bloooo!" The greeter at the door thought it was too cute so he untied one and handed it to her. I tied it to her wrist and we spent the next 20 minutes in our front yard with her running around with her new Bloooo.

A couple of weeks ago was Seuss Week at school. There was a lot of fun activities that the kids got to do in honor of reading and the great author, but their favorite by far was Friday. MaryKate's class got to do pajama day and Nikolai's class did cowboy day. They went dressed up like this to school, got to bring a "bedroll and a book" in Nikolai's case and a pillow and a book in MaryKate's. They had snacks all day and a relaxed, reading, game playing Friday.

Another thing Sara has discovered is climbing into the car all by herself. She gets such a kick out of getting into the front seat and pretending to drive. Now if I could get her to willingly get into her car seat in the back and wait to be buckled....

Because another awesome thing happened in the car this month... Sara got to turn around in her car seat!!!! When we finally took this step she wasn't quite at 20 lbs yet but a real close 19 1/2 lbs. We deemed it close enough when the straps on her infant seat (that is only rated to 20 lbs) started cutting into her neck and hurt every time we went anywhere. She is still getting used to sitting forward, she likes it but at the same time complains when we buckle her in, she's still not used to the idea that she is SUPPOSED to face forward and it disturbs her for a minute (she's really into everything being the same lately and even though it's been almost 2 weeks, she's still not quite into it). It makes her look like such a big girl.

Two of Sara's favorite things caught into one picture... running around naked and coloring! (By the way, this has a funny side story, it was taken about 5 minutes before she peed all over this chair and onto the floor, actually a rare occurrence when she runs around naked, I was trying to run around, cleaning up after her, getting the kids to do homework, cleaning up the kitchen enough to be able to make dinner and put groceries away since we had just gotten home and it was past 6:30 pm. Kevin innocently walked through the door in the middle of all this chaos after being gone since 7 that morning and asked me "What's for dinner honey?!" At which point I looked around at everything that was going on, felt completely overwhelmed and sat down on the kitchen floor, sobbing. Kevin walked around the counter, looked at me, and said "So.... we're going out to eat?" I couldn't talk, I was crying too hard so he got Sara cleaned up and diapered and dressed. Got the kids shoes on then asked if I was going too. By then I was calm enough, I got up, cleaned my face, and enjoyed a dinner OUT with my family. Wow, you've got to love those pregnancy hormones and an understanding husband!")