11 Months Old

Some 11 month old highlights:

Georgia likes to eat grilled cheese sandwiches and has tried oatmeal now, too.

We took her swimming once this month. Though she didn't really seem to know what to think, overall she seemed to like it especially when she could just sit in the zero-entry portion of the pool.

She's mastered the straw cup, and actually does a lot better with it than she does with the traditional sippy cup.

She likes to play outside on the grass. She also likes to swing in the swings at the park.

She has enough hair for one little ponytail at the top.

She doesn't really want to stay still for her monthly photo shoots, and she's gotten so big that it's really not possible at all to hide the fact that I take them on a chair that's been covered with a white sheet (most likely fairly obvious last month and the month before, too. I try)

Yeah, her eyes do look a bit teary. This was not the happiest of photo shoots.

Monthly photo shoots were easier when she couldn't move!

Spring Break '14

You know what happens when you wait nearly two months to record your Spring Break memories? You forget them.  I know we kicked off the week at the zoo, and that we really did do something each day, but my mind is now kind of drawing a blank.

But I took pictures! Not very many, but enough to jog my  memory. So here goes

Monday was the zoo. Jordan took the day off and a cute little friend of Oliver's joined us. We have a great zoo here and we had a fun day. Since we had an extra boy with us, we got a lot of "wow, four boys and then finally a girl!" type comments. But no asked if they were all ours, which was kind of funny because they weren't!

Tuesday, I took the kids to a local park that's full of fossils. Really. Like, you reach down and grab a few rocks and most of them have a fossil or two or more on them. You are allowed to take some home, so I limited the kids to just three each. It was windy, so we probably didn't enjoy it as much as we might have without the wind, but it was still fun.

Wednesday, we met up with friends at a park that has a fun indoor playground. We also walked over to a waterfall and played in the outdoor playground too.

Thursday, it rained. A lot. And we probably picked the rainiest part of the day to go to the library. We got soaked on the way in and out. Poor Oliver slipped and fell on the way to the car and got even more wet.

Friday, we went to Chick-Fil-A to play in their play area and have a little treat. I actually remember this one pretty well because the kids were so excited to go, but pretty much cried and yelled at each other the entire way home because they were all accusing each other of cheating at the game they created in the play area. I guess that's so typical of them that that is why I remember it so well? I don't know.

Skyler loves the zoo!

Easter 2014

A family picture for Easter, it's what we do. Jordan was surprised by this little tidbit, but I imagine many of you faithful readers are not.