February Wrap-up

**Edit: I wrote this post in February and for some reason never published it!  Sorry!

Month 2 of 2017 is over!  Can you believe February has gone and March starts tomorrow?  I am ready for spring to come and warm weather to stay!  We've had some amazing days in February but I'm ready for everyday to be warm and sunny!

Before sharing our miscellaneous pictures from February, I wanted to share an update on the houses since today was supposed to be our settlement day...but it's not.  Long story short the buyer for our house has run into some issues so we're waiting to hear if it's all going to work out or not.  So say a prayer for us that it all works out and that we're patient and open to God's plan!

So on to our miscellaneous pictures from February!  We had a lot of fun and tried to make good use of the several 70 degree days we had.

 

I got a new shipment of books in!  I absolutely love selling Usborne Books and More and being a "personal book consultant" (as I call myself) to others.  You can check out my page here!

 

Noelle playing in the bouncy house at daycare!

 

Natalie did not want to get out.

 

A friend of a friend made the girls these AMAZING hats!  They are beautiful and so detailed!  Definitely a keepsake.  She also was sweet enough to make two Mickey hats for my friend Laura and her two boys.

 

I had to bribe them to take the hats off for bedtime.

 

Celebrating the 100th day of school in style!  100 years young!

 

The first grade team.

 

Me and my intern waiting for the kids to come!

 

Daddy and his girls reading before bed.

 

Natalie playing dress-up at daycare (side note...see that duck rattle she's holding?  She absolutely loves that thing and it comes home with us 2-3 days out of the week.  She will not let it go.)

 

Noelle

 

We got to have a joint celebration at daycare with another little girl whose birthday is 4 days after the girls so they brought pizza and we brought cupcakes!  I was able to sneak away from work during my lunch hour to go celebrate with them!

 

Natalie tried to blow out the candles but couldn't quite get it.

 

Noelle tried too and Miss Sara ended up helping.

 

Sharing some inside joke in the book corner!

 

And the next day Noelle was sick so I took off and we all stayed home.  Here the poor girl was trying to sleep and Natalie kept trying to get her to play.

 

Aren't we all glad Minnie & Mickey made it onto Noah's Ark?

 

They love their Minnie & Mickey Little People dolls.  So much we had to order a second set because they were fighting constantly over them.

 

So cool

 

Opening their birthday cards from Aunt Judy!

 

2 year checkup.  Natalie started crying as soon as the nurse said, "hi" and didn't stop till we left.  Noelle put on a brave face and only cried when she got her shot.  Noelle is 34.4" tall and wei26lbs 3oz

 

Trying on bathing suits

 

Playing at the park with friends!

 

Racing with friends

 

Happy February friends!

Disney on Ice

I wanted to share the beginning of our birthday festivities before we get too busy with packing up our house!  For our family celebration we got tickets to see Disney on Ice in Baltimore the day before their birthday.

We started the morning by going to a birthday party for Natalie & Noelle's friend from daycare.  She had her party at a place near our house called Pump It Up.  It's two rooms full of inflatables that the kids get to climb, jump, and slide on.  My students have talked about it for years now and it was fun to see what all the fuss was about!

 

Noelle & Natalie waiting to get in the car!

We started in the first room and the girls were a little unsure of what to do so I got in the obstacle course with them.  They were just too small to climb up the ladders and such so I gave them a boost and they had a blast sliding down the little slides.  It was really nice that the parents could go on the inflatables with the kids.

After about 20 minutes in the first room, we moved to the second room for different inflatables.  By now the girls were getting tired and didn't really want to jump on anything.  They did like the air cannon and shooting the balls at each other!

 

After another 20 minutes the party moved into the party room for donuts and milk.  We had to leave then to make it to Baltimore on time so we got some donuts for the road.

We ended up timing it pretty well and got to our seats just as the show was starting.  The hosts of the show were Mickey and Minnie of course!  Both girls got VERY excited to see them and kept pointing and saying "It's Mickey, it's Minnie!"  After they introduced the show the skaters came out and did different Disney stories in a very shortened version.  These stories all had to do with the princesses and while the girls aren't quite into the Disney princesses yet, they got excited when Mickey & Minnie came out in between each story.

We were hoping the girls would sit in our laps for the show but that only lasted about 15 minutes.  So we got them some fries and that helped.  Noelle decided to stand in the aisle and enjoyed dancing and holding her fries.  Natalie joined her later in the show and they kept dancing, sitting down on the steps, standing up, etc.  Being antsy toddlers.  Thankfully everyone around us just smiled and were probably reliving the toddler days with their children.

 

Mommy and Noelle

 

Mommy & Natalie

 

Fries in hand

The girls made it almost to the end when Natalie dropped her fries everywhere.  She had a meltdown when I wouldn't let her eat the fries off of the floor.  At the same time Anna and Elsa came onto the rink to sing "Let It Go" which distracted them and right after that we grabbed the diaper bag and left before she could remember her dropped fries.  It worked out nicely because we were able to get out of the parking garage before the masses.

 

Elsa dancing to "Let it Go"

All in all they did really well for their first show!  I'm glad we had aisle seats and that we (luckily) timed it that we got right there at the start and left right before the end.  It was a fun way to celebrate their birthday just the four of us!

 

Just to give you an idea of how much Natalie loves her sister, Noelle pushed her into a chair so Noelle was sitting in time out.  Natalie didn't want her sister to sit in time out alone so she went over and sat with her.  She's such a sweetheart!

 

How I felt about them turning 2 the next day.

 

Last family picture with one year olds!