March 2013

Somehow Easter got on here first.

The view from the back window - can you see the two pheasants? I am just glad they're sitting on the deck and not flying into my front window!

Ellie finally likes to go to nursery! And I can leave her without her screaming the whole time I'm gone. One thing they do most every week is "Ring Around the Rosies" and she loves it, she gets her brothers to do it with her all the time. She's always going up to Ian while he's trying to read or do homework and pulls on his arm saying, "ring rosies?" How can anyone resist that?

There is a lot of reading of Dr. Seuss going on this month! His birthday is March 2, so we had a party and got out all the books we have of his. Caleb, especially, loves to read his stories.

We had Dr. Seuss food all day on March 2, this was dinner - the cat's hat and stars from The Sneetches.

Apparently Ellie needs reading glasses.

She is getting so good at "blowing bubbles with your mouth!" She does it all the time.

She was happy to be going somewhere. Not so happy to leave the 6 cars behind. She really, really likes to hold things. She has her favorites, usually her duck, these two broken light toys that have a snowman and Snoopy on them, and these Winnie the Pooh figures we have. We spend a lot of the day finding whatever she's left laying around, when she's crying for it at bedtime. And it's hard to get her to go out the door without something in her little hands! We did get out the door without the cars, but not without some tears as well.

A lot of March was taken up with working on science fair projects. Ian tested what liquids make nails rust the fastest, Levi tested which type of sugar grew yeast the best, and Caleb tested which type of bread molded the fastest. Science is fun!