I Can Pick Up My Brother

Yesterday's "Look Mom!" Included this! Apparently she is strong enough to pick the big guy up!!

Spring (?) Hike

This morning we decided to go for a hike... Even if it meant winter hats and trekking through snow! We saw a lot of animal tracks in the fresh snow and the kids got to warm up with hot chocolate when we finished. Ahhh Spring!!

Someone's in the kitchen

The kids and I made 2 recipes from our Wild Eats and Adorable Treats recipe book. They had a blast doing everything from picking out the recipes to doing the decoration themselves. We had an amazing afternoon!!

Twins

The kids requested matching outfits this morning. They were super excited for their turtlenecks!

I'm the Griiiiiiiiiiiiinch!

It's beginning to look...

I'm hiding!

Baking

This is Halloween

It Doesn't Fit

Ansel said, "it doesn't fit". Turns out it does if you put the pants on the legs!!

Look At My Cat

I walked into the living room today and Ansel exclaimed,"Look at my cat!!" He had covered Azzy in a blanket. Not sure if Azzy liked it, but he also didn't run away!

The Patient

We had been noticing for a while that Amita's hearing was off, so we worked with our family practice doctor to try a few things.  When those didn't seem to work, we met with an Ear, Nose, & Throat specialist who let us know that Amita needed ear tubes put in and her tonsils and adenoids out.  For a family who didn't even go to the hospital to give birth, that was pretty scary!!

The day before the surgery, we had a special night with just the three of us (Ansel went on his first solo visit to Papa and Nana's) where Amita got to pick what we did, what to eat, what to read, etc.  She enjoyed being in charge of everything!  

We got up early the next morning and headed to the clinic with all the supplies recommended to us.  It went surprisingly quickly and we didn't have lots of time to worry as someone was always updating us with her status.  The first hour afterwards was pretty rough for her, but I'm sure it's scary to be so young and wake up from anesthesia and not understand why everything hurts.  We did lots of hugs until she asked to leave the recovery area.  Her exact words were, "I want to get out of here RIGHT NOW!"

The surgery went exactly as it was supposed and Amita seems to have a lot of toughness (that I think she gets from her Mama!).  She soldiered through the pain and was back to normal in under a week.  Her breathing and hearing are greatly improved, so we're glad we made the choice to move forward.

Here's a few photos of our little patient.

Fantastic Gymnastics

By some perfect twist of fate, the local parks and rec department was offering gymnastics for 2- and 4-year-olds at the exact same time in the exact same location.  I couldn't NOT sign the kids up, since it seems unlikely anything as amazing as that will ever happen again!!

Both kids really enjoyed trying out the different gymnastics stations, but neither of them is so interested in the sport that they would like to keep doing it after this summer's class. It was fun to watch them try it all out, though. 

Here's Amita leaping from the horse!

And doing a back bend. 

The lines worked out perfectly so they were both on the balance beams at the same time. Amita prefers the low beams; Ansel prefers the high one!

Amita did try the high beam...

... And did a great job jumping off!

Ansel loved the monkey bars!

Somersaults were his least favorite but he really liked the teacher!

Swinging was Ansel's favorite!!

No matter the result, it's important to finish!