We seem to have turned a corner as a family. While we've always prioritized getting outside the house and park time, the fact that everyone can now get their boots and jackets on and walk down the front steps by themselves has made a noticeable difference! There's also been increased eagerness, verbal communication, and understanding from the twins. I love CCW's demands for "playground! playground! playground!" and that all of our children particularly enjoy "Costco" trips with Mr. Fleece. While we still have daily doses of tantrums, whining, and squabbles, they're offset with an ample supply of happy squeals, "positive attitudes", adorable new pronunciations, giggles, and laughter.
Highlights:
- So many outdoor adventures
- New house decor and dining table for our front room
- Snow days in February
- Attending their first group birthday party...sitting together and eating cake in the party room :)
- NLW completing his first LEGO set
- Opening weekly letters from Poppa
- Watching CCW walk his balance bike all the way from our house to Hiawatha
- EDW's burst of vocabulary following her ear tube surgery
- Read-a-longs on the couch
- NLW's excitement to meet new friends at the playground
- EDW getting good at undressing/dressing herself
- Our evening pattern of race + chase + squeal as they hide and run from daddy
- Moving the children to three across in the back row
- Audiobooks in the car during our school commutes
Watching | Daisy Jones & the Six
Daisy Jones & the Six takes a clean sweep! I binged the audiobook, watched the TV series, and have been listening to the soundtrack. I adored the fashion, the cast, the music, and the adaptation to screen! These scene packs were what originally got me interested.
Eating | Menchie's
Besides getting donuts with Mr. Fleece, our children so rarely go into restaurants/eateries. The five of us have eaten out together literally a total of three times (Natalie's on Alki, Pagliacci Pizza, Marination). I often forget that this is something we can do together! One Sunday Mr. Fleece and I both happened to want to take the kids to Menchie's, so we made it happen! No real reason, we weren't celebrating anything in particular. The children loved it :)
Reading | The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
I really enjoyed this poetry collection and wish I had encountered his writing sooner. Surely it should be part of standard school curriculum!
Listening | A Heart that Works by Rob Delaney
This will be in my top books of the year, I loved it that much. There are a couple of odd parts, but honestly it's one of my favorite books about parenting (that's not marketed as a parenting book) because it captures the love and devotion of a parent so beautifully. It's a memoir about two year-old Henry that dies from a brain tumor, so you have to be ready to engage with a painful and heart-breaking story. The audio was well done as it's read by the author/father.
Hold fast to dreams,
- SJW
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