MMM, PEAS!

POTENTIAL

Nova has the potential to be a professional trail-mix-separator. Need your trail mix sorted? She'll find the chocolates first, then the raisins, then the peanuts. If you're lucky she may actually eat some of the peanuts, but don't even try it with almonds and cashews. Not a chance.

MORE FINGER PAINTS

I have to admit that I'll be happy when we run out of these paints. It's kind of a mess.

STICKER SHEETS

This little monster gets a sticker every time he uses the bathroom. Enough stickers means candy.


Enough candy means a movie.



It's been a week now, and I'm running out of ways to motivate him. Also, wondering how long the sticker thing has to go on. Will we be doing this when he's 10?

AMAZED BY THIS

I should probably go look this up before I tell you how cool I think it is - Nova gave up the "fist hold" for crayons & pencils awhile back.

Now she holds them like an adult. She's 21 months? I've never seen a kid under 2 do this. Heck, Gus doesn't even do it.


Our ECFE teacher pointed it out to us in February, and since then she's really mastered it. She also prefers pencils & pens to crayons. Dave has high hopes that she'll be the one who's really into drawing.


In other news: see that boy in the background in the top picture? He's not wearing a diaper. Day 5 of the POTTY WARS and counting!

NO!

This is either "No! Don't take a picture!" or it's "Gimmie the camera!" Hard to tell which.

OPENING PRESENTS

OH, MINNESOTA...

Why do you do this to us? All week it's been sunny and we've seen the snow melt. The garden beds revealed themselves the other day, and we saw daffodils pushing up! Come on....


Back inside for a few days, until we see the sun again. A perfect time to teach one little monster how to use the potty....


Maybe two little monsters?

SNOW AND SLIDE

Yeah, we had to shovel it out..... but spring is spring and Miss Nova was determined to go down the slide.

BRODERICKS

Aunt Katie and I think that these two look more like each other than they look like their siblings. We have created Brodericks!