February

I have a few random pictures from February.  Lately, the kids are really into dressing up.  Siena, in particular, puts a dress over her regular clothes almost daily.  

Tiago went through a stage of not wanting to go to sleep at night.  We put him in bed around 7:45, and he'd be coming into our room at 9 pm still telling us he couldn't sleep, or he was hungry, etc.  Part of the problem is how much he likes to read; he could sit and look through books for hours.  More recently we implemented a rewards system that encourages him to stay in his own room.  So even if he's reading until 9 he isn't bothering what's left of our evenings.  When we're lucky he just lays down and falls asleep.  (Usually with the light on.)

We didn't do a whole lot for Valentines day.  I gave the kids each a box of chocolates at breakfast, and we had pink milk.  They were satisfied.   Tiago came home from school with a bag of Valentines cards and the kids had fun going through everything for about an hour.  The week of Valentines, I was in charge of teaching Joy School.  We decorated sugar cookies for them to give their valentines.  And the kids did a card (and candy) exchange with each other which they loved.

I think this is Hyrum and a group from church when they were helping someone move.

We obviously went to Target a few times in February.  One Saturday they had a lego activities set up in different parts of the store.  I usually avoid stores on the weekend, but we got lucky and the kids had fun building things.

These are a few pictures my mom sent of the kids while Hyrum and I were in Spain.  They already had one Minnie Mouse dress-up doll (from her) but she bought them two more.  There was a lot of Minnie play-time.  She also got them to all their activities (Joy School, ballet, art class, soccer practice), fed them, and did their hair way more frequently than I do it.  Lucky kids. 

As soon as we got back from our trip, we had a whirlwind day before my mom flew home.  We had our 20-week ultrasound where we found out the baby's gender, and took Tiago to register for Kindergarten.  Then he rushed off to soccer practice.  It was nice for Hyrum to have that extra day off work to 'recover' (we got home after midnight) and help with the craziness, and also for my mom to be home to help watch the kids one more day.