The Everyday

Today felt like summer! High of 84 degrees. I'm alive again :) The day's itinerary included workout class, 2 separate outings to the park with friends, a few visits to the community garden, and preschool. It doesn't get much better than that. I finally had the chance to wear my new shirt that works with the new garments! The community garden's flowers smell amazing. In addition to looking beautiful! "Bitsy boots blast off!" Iykyk

Time is flying. Macy will be 8 months next Friday! It's been so fun seeing Macy's personality start to shine through. Macy loves grabbing everything. We call her our "snatching machine." If you try taking anything she's snatched out of her hands she gets verrryyy sad.  Her favorite thing to hold is stuffed animals. She is happiest when she has a binky in her mouth and a stuffy in her hand. Macy loves Emi so much. Emi can make her laugh better than anyone else. Macy and Emi started sharing a room recently and it's so cute to see their special bond. Emi came out of her room this morning, and told me she had been reading Macy a story while Macy was in her crib. *my heart melted* Macy is just along for the ride. She is fine with us taking her anywhere, and will just sit and watch contently in the stroller.  We love our Macy girl! Macy living her best life.

Emi's bedtime routine has evolved into a full on production. It ends with Marty or I lying in bed with her, scratching her back, her begging us to lie in bed with her longer (both of us cave)... until we have to insist that it's time for us to leave her room for the night.  Even though it's a whole ordeal... I secretly love it. I love that special time with her and I love getting to reflect as I scratch her back. I have recently felt that as much as I love her, she's His. It's a gift that I get to raise her, and I'm filled with gratitude for that chance. Emi and I enjoying a run together today! Emi even pushed me in the stroller ;) Emi drew this yesterday (the first time we've seen her draw people), and both Marty's and my hearts almost burst.

I was dying inside when I heard it was going to be a snow day today after Emi just had a week long break from school. However, it ended up being a great day! We played a lot inside, enjoyed some Gabby's Dollhouse, and went out into the snow. This storm was different than the one we had a few weeks ago, in that the temps were not close to 0 and it didn't feel as windy. Which made it easier to enjoy being out in the snow! Macy was zonked! In Emi's words: "I'm a snow ghoul." For dinner we picked up Mimi's with Courtney, Michael, and Marlie and ate together at the Belnord.  And now that I've enjoyed the day, school can start tomorrow ;)

We relaxed and knocked out our grocery shopping this morning. In the afternoon we went to meet our mid-winter break crew at the Safari Playground, only to discover it was closed! We aren't the type to let obstacles ruin our fun so we re-routed to the "Purple Park." Emi played for a bit, but then all the fun we've been having this break caught up to her and she started begging me to go home. I'm not kidding--asking over and over "Mommy can we go home?" while I was trying to feed Macy. Poor girl was exhausted.  We made our way back home, and Emi cuddled up in a blanket and watched Miss Rachel and Gabby's Dollhouse. Sometimes you just need your comfort shows to get you through the day! ...And then both girls went down for an early bedtime.

The mid-winter break festivities continue! Madness Pt 1: We made our way to Costco via bus today. It was quite the trek with our crew--6 children, 4 and under--but we really wanted to check it out and eat at the food court. haha. It was very exciting arriving at Costco and they had lots of good stuff. Unfortunately I had 0 space to haul it back with me so I opted to just enjoy looking around. The actual store wasn't too packed, but the children were crrraazzyyy. At one point Sarah, Nika, and I were in the check out line, and our girls were all lying on the floor hahaha. It was super embarrassing but I was also like "these children never have space just to run around in the winter" so I could see why they wanted to just be kids and get their wiggles out! The actual eating was also chaotic. We were trying to juggle taking kids to the bathroom, finding a place to sit in the 6 table food court, keeping the babies happy, and navigating around missed nap times. haha. Even with ...