March

Blogging has taken a back seat lately.  I love being able to look back and re read, look at the pictures and remember the things we have done and a reminder of the kids' milestones.  Facebook is so much easier to just leave a quick note about something that was said or what we are doing or just sharing a picture or two.  But I still want to keep up with the blog so one day I can put all of this in a book and have it forever.  Since this is my journal/baby book for the kids, I need to do some catching up on some of the big (and little) things that have gone on the last couple months.

One of our favorite things to do in early, early spring, after being cooped up in the house all winter, is to drive out to Kanopolis Lake and have a picnic supper or roast hot dogs at a campfire and then drive around and look for deer.  Count how many we see.  It is early enough in the year that the deer haven't been spooked away by campers yet and are pretty much used to having free range of the whole park.  On average we see around 100 deer and lots of turkey.  Kids enjoy it for a change.  We went out on March 4 and had our picnic supper and the kids were able to play on the new park equipment that was put up during the winter.



Being silly!


March 15, Madi had her spring music program at school.  She did so great!!  I am sure glad they do the younger kids' programs in the spring.  If this had been earlier in the year, she would have never gotten in front of all those people and sang.  Now, play Where's Madi? and see if you can find her among all those kids!

The third week of March we finally got to Spring Break!!  We had big plans for the week but some of it got rained out.  It rained almost every day of our spring break.  We did manage to get out of the house for a little fun though.  March 20 we went bowling with cousins and friends.  Kids had a lot of fun but it sure was a test of patience for Evan.  Six kids on one lane made a long wait in between bowling turns.  Everybody did great except for Evan.  We need to work on our patience skills! :)

Friday, March 23rd, we got a break from the clouds and rain and had a gorgeous spring day to enjoy the zoo.  It is so nice having the zoo so close to make a trip out and spend a couple of hours.  And great paved walk ways when everything else was such a muddy mess!

The month of March also brought back one of Madi's favorite activities, GYMNASTICS!!  She loves gymnastics and they have such a great program and leaders through Parks and Rec.

So last time, I wrote (I had to go back and re read it has been so long ago) that I started potty training with Evan.  Well, we didn't do so good.  He was doing really good before we started with having dry diapers after naps and some in the mornings also.  But he did a bit of a back slide once we started training.  He was having a lot accidents and waking up with super wet diapers.  He wasn't catching on with telling me he needed to go potty.  And ended up using the pull ups like diapers.  Which is way more expensive than just buying diapers.  So three weeks of trying to potty train and he just wasn't ready.  Back to diapers for a little longer.