February Little Things

This sweet girl, who almost never takes naps anymore, fell asleep in the car one day. When I brought her inside I fully expected her to wake up. She did for a second and then fell right back asleep on me. Even when I moved out from under her to go to the bathroom, she still stayed asleep. Good to know that when she needs sleep, she'll make it happen.

 So. Much. Snow this winter. 

 We found this snowman one day while walking around.

 Finally upgraded the beds! Shae has been in this toddler bed for quite some time (thankfully he's on the short end for his age :), and Belén has been using this crib with a wall removed for about a year now. We were all very excited for the new beds.

 The kids were excited to help put it together.

They were extremely squealy and cute going to bed that first night.

 When my parents came to visit the next week for Shae's birthday, the bunk beds came in handy for me and Darin to sleep on while giving my parents our bed. I like this new system.

 The kids got a couple dollars to spend at the dollar store while my parents were in town and Belén was very excited to find this Rapunzel hair. 

 The day after I got home from Vegas just so happened to be a warmish day, so we took advantage of it and went outside for a little picnic at the park.

 Five year old art is the best art. I can't get enough of this little alligator.

 We started using separate blankets last month. Why has it taken us 6 years to do this? I love tucking the blanket in all around me and you just can't do that when you're sharing a blanket. This has been a total sleep game changer for me. Now if we could only upgrade that mattress to a king so that I have all the space in the world, bwahahahaha, or maybe we just need two twin beds? We should just get our own bunk beds. I'm sure Darin would totally be on board with that.

 So much Olympics. Shae got really in to Olympics which made it really fun to watch. He is one passionate, patriotic little boy.

 We went and cheered on our dear friend Kyle in his final Cornell basketball game with a bunch of friends from the branch.

 We introduced the kids to ice cream sundaes with the leftover candy and ice cream from Shae's birthday party. Our ice cream fanatic boy thought it was the greatest thing.

 She didn't mind either :).

 The Syracuse zoo does half price tickets during the months of January and February since it is so cold. Thankfully the very last day of February was in the 50s, so we took advantage and went up with some friends for the day. 

After the zoo, the kids and I went and explored the area around Flat Rock while we waited for Darin to get out of class (we like to pick him up on Tuesdays as his class gets out right after the bus leaves). I love exploring the world with these guys. Here they are pretending to go fishing.

Shae came home and used the connectors to build his own zoo. Complete with a souvenir shop at the end of the zoo. He even made little maps for us to use so we knew where to find all the animals.