Mr. Grady!

God's beauty

While the girls were at Awana one day, I was able to capture a few pictures of God's beautiful creation! Theres something about the creation of his sky that just puts me in awe every time I see it! He is a God of beauty, perfection, and love!

"Splendid and Majestic in His work, and His righteousness endures forever." Psalm 111:3

"Your love, oh LORD, reaches to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the skies. Psalm 36:5

A glimpse of February

Here are a few pics of what we did in the month of February when we weren't sick!

Building a snowman




Eating the snow




Some painting


And eating the paint






Wrestling with daddy


The girls love wrestling with daddy!


A few trips to the free museum(Cabellas)


ZZZZ


The girls pretending to play a game

"poo poo"

Grady is starting to be aware when he has to go "poo poo."
The other day, I put him in the bath tub with the girls and all of a sudden, he says, "poo poo."

We thought, uh oh, now what? So, I grabbed the potty chair and gave it a try. He was very proud to be sitting on the big boy potty and had a blast with the toilet paper, but no success ;) I guess it was a false alarm :)

What did daddy do?!

Daddy got crazy as you can see in these pictures! I guess that's what happens when he's stuck in the house with us for a few days straight because were all sick and he had to take care of us. ;)
I will admit, I was not thrilled at first when I saw him buzzing Grady's hair! However, it's starting to grow on me, but still not my favorite hair cut on him. I guess as the mom, my baby boy is cute no matter what hair cut he has! And it's just hair, it will grow back! I love Andy's hair this length, but Grady's a baby so now he just looks bald! ;)
.... at least Daddy likes it! Or he likes the fact that he has a little buddy he can buzz his hair with!

A night out of town

Last wkd, we got the opportunity to have a night out of town. We went a whole 15 miles to grafton, our neighbor city! ;) We get awesome discounts at the Hampton Inn bc my mom works there so we decided to spend a night, do lots of swimming, go out for dinner, get some ice cream at our favorite ice cream place, and enjoy a gourmet continental breakfast the next morning, which was extra special bc my mom was working and works in the kitchen. So, basically, we ate like kings and queens that morning and my mom so nicely made what we wanted and served us. I got a good mom :) The next day, we took the kids to build a bear with the gift certificates from our friends in MN(thank you) and had lunch at the mall, then just kinda bummed around for the rest of the day.
'Freaky side note:' 2 wks before we went to the mall there was a mob of kids who invaded it making chaos running through it. And the night before we went, the mall had a bomb threat. We did not know this until we left the mall and I dont think I would've went knowing that.

But the two days 'out of town' were a definitely needed and fun family time! :)

Yummy ice cream


It snowed like crazy when we went out for ice cream! It was beautiful!


Swimming


Grady LOVED the water and did not want us holding him, he wanted to do it all on his own!
He has NO fear!


Mia also loved the water and has become quite a good swimmer





Build a bear


Washing their bears


Grady's bear (Andy thought it would be cute to get them all underwear for their animals since we didn't have enough for their outfits that were about $20 a piece!)


The girls with their loveys

Uh oh; Look what I can do

Grady learned something today that could cause some troubles. We'll just have to watch him very closely!
Here it is:
(FYI: The oven is NOT on.. I just have bread in there rising)

Going through a scared phase

Our bold and confident Hadley has been going through a major scared phase. I know it's somewhat normal at her age, but I don't remember dealing with this with Mia as much. Mia is just a little chicken over all, but not like a 'scared' chicken.

One thing that freaked Hadley out was the curtains in her room moving when the heat came on. Now, she's super scared to sleep in her room and at night... she has made the decision, she can not sleep alone! Thats where the brave big sister comes into action and allows her to snuggle her in her bed. They both sleep in twin beds so they def. have to snuggle in order to fit. It's been very cute to see Hadley looking up to her big sister for protection. And we've been very proud of Mia for being such a good big sister to let her sleep with her. At times Mia says, I just need a break.... But we tell her that God makes big sister's very special for this reason and that is why He made Mia a big sister.

...So, it used to went like this... We put the girls to bed in their own beds. As soon as we closed the door, Hadley climbed in with Mia. Then before Andy and I went to bed, 1 of us would check on them and Mia usually had us move Hadley back into her bed. But by the time morning came, Hadley was back in Mia's bed.
...Then after awhile... they started in the same bed and when we checked on them, we put Hadley back in the other bed, then in the middle of the night, Mia sometimes would come get us bc Hadley crawled back in with her and she wants her out(Hadley is a bit of a bed hog as well) so we moved Hadley again. Then by the time morning came, Hadley was back in bed with Mia snuggling right up to her.
...But now, they start in the same bed, they stay in the same bed all night, and they wake up in the same bed... ;)
It's pretty cute! Makes me think we need another boy so Grady has somebody in his room with him.. haha... I said it makes me THINK... so don't get any ideas! ;)

In Mia's bed

In Hadley's bed