February 2013

February 1- co op, house showing, a little school, sunny but COLD day:), played with my babies, Poppy came for his birthday gift (UNC game tickets), went to the bookstore so dad could get the spelling bee participants books, and dad/brian watched airplane.
**elbows/garlic cheese biscuits/veggies

February 2- Lilly came over for the morning/mid afternoon, Kinsey's game..Poppy came!, Brian and dad to the UNC game, dad played Pente with the kids, watched Ephram make pudding for dad, cailey fed kinsey chapstick...yup., helped braden with his bear (scout) book and his rock presentation, lots of laughing from Ephram with poppy (light saber fights).
**sausage/potato/pepper bake/salad

February 3- church, qt with brian, went to see Les Mis with Marsie, braden did his rock presentation at scouts, kids to choir/mission kids, went to Leslie's so the boys could play and we could catch up, and Super Bowl Sunday yummies!

February 4- piano lessons, school, (cailey did most of hers last night), lots of playing in the sunshine, curled the girls hair for their daddy/daughter date, photo shoot, lots of preschool fun and crafts with ephram, made snowflakes with the kids, and played with the boys while the girls were on their date.

February 5- school (another super fast day for cailey), preschool for e, science class for the oldest two, haircut for braden, more school, free afternoon full of playing outside, met the Klick's at IHOP for free pancakes, and read together.

February 6- lab work for me, school,  (cailey did it last night), lots of free time, BINGO at CFA with the kids, eye dr for my contacts, jump rope class for c, awana, running/biking/scooter racing up and down the hill, outside play, and watched videos of the chicks that hatched at Laura's.
**bbq sausage and roasted sweet potatoes

February 7- school, preschool for e, run for braden/daddy, everyone else slept late, grocery shopping for produce, obgyn, braden's eye is bad again, magic school bus video during apt, outside play in the dreary afternoon, and cailey's basketball game.
**pizza

February 8- co op, AHG, field trip for cailey, watched alex, talked with cheryl and caught up:), cailey's jump rope performance with NLC, kinsey went home with lilly for a sleepover, cailey went out to eat with the morgan's, braden's eye still bad, took the boys to the mall to drop off braden's car, and Auntie Anne came over!!

February 9- waffles for breakfast, kinsey's basketball game (scored 8 points), braden's pinewood derby, AG party for Kinsey, karen came, went on a walk with anne and karen, hung out, kids loved playing with karissa and asa, went out to dinner with the girls, and did a TON of laughing:)

February 10- church, lots of singing for ephram's gotcha day, cloudy turned nice and sunny, kids played ball outside, tryouts for choir, mission kids, choir, played with ephram, and braden went to bed with a bad stomach ache.

February 11- dreary Monday,  piano lessons, braden had a bad tummy ache all day, school, book reports (MLK and Civil War), canceled playdate with Speiers b/c of sickness, and pillow fights.

February 12- preschool for e, science class for c+b, car school with K, baileywick park for lots of playground time then exploring in the woods, (braden still had a tummy ache), school, and two Asians alseep on the hall floor lol!

February 13- a little school, science museum with the klick's,  krispy kreme on the way home, valentine's day crafts, grocery shopping, awana, and brian went to brandon's for the carolina game.

February 14- fun fun day of making red/heart meals, playing games, decorating, baking, staying home, making crafts, last day of the countdown to Valentine's day hunt, lots of YUMMY food, went to Cailey's basketball game where she scored 4 pts, and came home to make red velvet pancakes and heart shaped bacon as their second dinner:)

February 15- co op, didn't watch alex, went to Spring Forest park with the keels, kinsey went for a playdate with lilly, cleaned/prepped for the Valentine's day party, hosted, planned games, had a blast making kids happy and feeding people, laughed,  daddies talked, kids competed and had fun, gave out AWESOME prizes, fed kids WAY too much sugar, abby stayed for a sleepover with cailey...so they played, watched a movie, then crashed. UNTIL Cailey came out at 12 because she couldn't sleep after finding out the exciting news that she had a main part in the spring musical!

February 16- woke up with doughnuts for the girls and went to cheer kinsey on at her basketball game (she made 2 baskets), looked out the window near the end of the game and it was snowing HUGE fluffy flakes, went home with excited kids who played in the snow all day...until it melted off the ground, and 'de-valentined' the house...cleaned and got it back to normal.

February 17- woke to snow..yay!! black ice kept us from church, up early and out for three showings, sledding in the back of the neighborhood (plus snow angels, snowball fights, Golden Corral for Brian's birthday, sunny snow day, went to look at another filigree house but didn't like it as much, choir,

***Kinsey's been asking a lot about her birth mom lately and today said, "mommy, how did the mommy whose tummy I was in know your last name to send me to you?"  We are always VERY open with her and answer the questions to the best of our ability, always quick to point out how thankful we are for her birth mom and what a sacrifice she made. She is thinking about it... a lot.

She has asked if the 'other mommy' had more children to which I said yes...one that I know of. Then she asked how she had enough money to feed that child but not her.

 Ephram has also asked me TONS of questions about it..which surprises me. Today he asked, "what's my adoption name?"

February 18- piano lessons, brian had the day off, school, haircut for e, showing that didn't happen (grrr), family time, ephram started getting sick, and star wars movie night.

February 19- school, science class for the oldest two, no preK for ephram because he was sick (high fever/clear constant nose/constant cough), last minute showing, eye apt for braden, girls played school all afternoon, and got lots of snuggles from my boy.

February 20- school, library, house showing, park, ephram was feeling better, awana, went out with kelly and molly for dinner, listened to excited children tell me about awana, and prepped for the next day.

February 21- school, preschool for e, out all afternoon for two showings, mall play place where Cailey was just AMAZING with the toddlers while the others played or read, cailey's last basketball game, awards, did a ton of reading with braden, and everyone crashed early.

February 22- co op, watched Alex (delayed b/c of ice), AHG for the girls, played with the three boys, ashton came over and played,  boys played with the little legos for hours, told cailey about the ladder system, hung out with cheryl for the afternoon, cailey went home with the lawley's for a sleepover, and we had movie night.

February 23- house showing, coupon shopping, cheered kinsey on at her last basketball game of the season, more house showings, picked up cailey,  brian did our read aloud while we waited for people to leave, ephram aka Peter Pan was THRILLED beyond belief to find his shirt and wore it all day..along with his hat and pants, he napped in the car,  and went to Braden's blue and gold ceremony where he ended up winning the 'slug' award:)!

February 24- church, busy day for cailey...she went home with the chapmans then skating with route 56/early choir/bible study/choir, we played outside all day, baked brian's cake with ephram, caught up with cailey, hug out with braden, played games with ephram (and read a ton)

February 25- piano lessons, mom came, school, nonny played games with the kids,  school, mom took the kids out to Ruby Tuesday's while I took Brian out to Casa Linga for his birthday, shopped with him, Penny aka Dot (the Easter Hen) joined our family, fun birthday cake/dessert time as a fam, presents, brian crashed while mom and I watched White Collar together.

February 26- got up and drove to Laura's (said goodbye to mom), had a croupy boy, kids did a GREAT job of playing inside all day even though it was rainy, caught up with my sweet friend, kids had a brief 30 min of getting some outside time in the evening, dennis watched the kids so Laura and I could go to dinner AND a movie...we saw Safe Haven, stayed up talking to L&D until Ephram threw up...which started a very.long.night.

February 27- after a night of no sleep from Ephram being so sick decided to come home instead of going to Charlotte to help mom, got a morning nap thanks to laura, crashed with ephram when we got home (though he and kinsey both slept most of the 2 hour car ride), school, didn't go to activities, had family time as brian read.

February 28- crazy early last minute showing so we cleaned first thing, took e to the dr (found out it's just a cold), school, snuggles and nap from my Peter pan (yup...wore it again today), chatted with beth about TSFL, another last minute showing in the evening, basketball awards ceremony, and ephram had a rough night coughing and coughing.