(Originally written on Friday April 1st) Yesterday we had the Kick-off party for the Colorado Springs Great Strides. I've joined the walk committee this year and I really felt I needed to go to the event. But Reid has had a long week at work (insert working LONG hours) and so I needed to find a last minute babysitter. And then of course we woke up to an inch of snow on the ground and a 2-hour delay (what for?? I don't know.) By the time the bus came it was snowing fairly heavily again but the forecast called for only an inch. With the extra two hours with Kai in the morning, the kids played together while I got in a 45 minute work out on the treadmill and then I set to work to find a babysitter. Thankfully the ward Facebook page saved me and by 1pm I had an awesome babysitter. Finn gets dropped off at school at 12:45 (the snow had stopped by then) and one of his little friends needed a ride yesterday, so his friend showed up at 12:20 and then we loaded in the car to head to school. After dropping Finn off, then finding out I had a babysitter, I set to work cleaning the house. The kitchen, bathroom, and well, just about the rest of the house needed some work. Bree helped me sporadically and we worked right up until time to pick-up the boys at 4pm. After picking up the boys I had to finish putting away laundry, run Finn through his evening treatments, get ready for going out, and then convince the kids that 4:45 wasn't too early for dinner. Kai was having a rough afternoon. He struggles with changes to his routine and I wasn't as patient with it as I could have been. He spent the hour between 4 and 5 pm throwing a fit and crying. The babysitter showed up a little before 5 and we walked her through the house and the evening (she is relatively new to the ward) and then I spent 10 minutes talking with Kai and trying to get him to cheer up before I headed out. I ended up 15 minutes late to the party but I knew that would be ok. It was a fun night meeting some CF families, talking about CF and what we are doing for fundraising, and just enjoying each other's company. I had debated on skipping when I was struggling to find a babysitter, but I am really glad I went. It was nice to be out. I got home a little before 8pm and had to run the kids through their bedtime routine. They were so excited to see me and greeted me excitedly at the door. Bree gave me a big hug and said, "I'm so proud of you Mom." It made me laugh. I love my sweet little Peanut. Finally everyone was down by 9pm and Reid was home so we watched Big Bang Theory. I knew my night might be rough since Bree was overtired when she went to bed. I was right. Around 3am she started screaming, "That's not fair!" over and over in her bed. She was having a night terror. I went in and tried to pull her out of it and she yelled, "I want a birthday, too!" while she was thrashing around and throwing a complete 2 year-old tantrum. It took me a while to get her to let me pick her up and then it took awhile for her to calm down in my arms. I was the recipient of a slap but I knew she wasn't really cognizant of what she was doing. Finally she was still and calm in my arms. I went to put her back in her bed and gave her a kiss. She looked up at me and said, "Bank you" (Thank you). Talk about melting my heart. It was a long day but very productive.
Anyway, that has nothing to do with March but I wanted to remember some of that and I don't have any pictures so why not blog about it now.
Back to March, the first few weeks were really warm. In between working on the trim in Bree's room we had some time to play outside.
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| I love the snow boots--jammies--bike combination. :) |
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| The new baseboards I picked out. |
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| My fantastic helpers |
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| We started out early one morning doing dress up. |
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| This is what she does every time I pick her up. I love it. She is snuggler with me. And she will rub my arms while she is doing that. |
Kai is playing little league baseball this spring with many of his old teammates from the YMCA and with his YMCA coach of the last two years. On Saturday the 12th there was a parents' meeting at the mall, so Finn stayed home and I went with the other two. After the meeting we walked through the mall to get some ice cream and see the pets at the pet store. And then we went to Dick's to pick up some cleats and pants for the upcoming season.
After our warm start, after St. Patrick's Day the snow came back. We had the sister missionaries over for dinner on St. Patrick's Day and I had planned to make cookies for dessert, but it didn't work out. We had the dough ready, though, so that Friday when we had a snow day from school we made spring sugar cookies. The next week was spring break, so with the snow day the kids got an extra day of Spring Break.
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