Yes, it's that glorious time of year when I "update" our family blog! I post a few things every semester (usually rants or fears), but don't actually update, so here's what we've been up to:
First and foremost, CONGRATULATIONS to my amazing husband on working so hard and finishing his second year of Optometry school today! Yay! He turns into a 3rd year in about a week and a half. SO PROUD OF HIM! Lyndi has a special surprise dinner planned for him (he already found out about the steak, it was sitting on the counter thawing, but Lyndi told me not to tell him what else we're having).
January began cold and windy and our heat went out on one of the coldest days of the month! Our landlord said the heater had been sounding weird for 15 years, and it finally went out on us! Luckily it was a quick fix! Tyler had clinic 3, sometimes 4 days a week, which will happen from here on out I hear. Wednesdays this semester were our 'girl's days', even though every day was a girl's day at our house. Since Tyler was gone all day until around 9, us girls baked cookies and ate junk food on Wednesdays :).
February started with that crazy big and long power outage and snow, snow and more snow! Nothing particularly exciting happened this month though... pretty boring people this month haha.
In March we went to Maple Days at a local farm, it was so fun! It was so cold! They showed us how to make maple syrup from trees, and why real maple syrup costs so dang much at the grocery store ;) They had little kid tractor rides and animals and pet and look at. They gave us a pancake with syrup and a piece of maple candy to sample, and it was one of the best pancakes I've ever had. The candy was too sweet for me, but Emerie liked it! Tyler then took me to get my ears pierced! I was so nervous! I pierced them when I was 18 and apparently was allergic to I'm assuming nickel. I got some better (more expensive) earrings this time and haven't had a problem! Tyler threw me a party the next night and made me a lemon poppy seed cake (mmmmmmmm). That happened to be the same week he had Spring Break, so we got some things done around the house and then we went to the Please Touch Museum. Hands down the most fun indoor kids place I've ever been to! It's HUGE and they have thought of everything for it. The first Wednesday of every month from 5-7 the tickets are $2 (compared to $17 normally, even for kids!). So we decided to go finally and it was well worth the drive downtown. Emerie's favorite part was collecting ALL the rubber duckies in the water they had and putting them in the same place. Lyndi's favorite was the store where she got to shop for groceries with her little cart. SO MUCH FUN!
In April we finally saw the snow melt away and got to go to the park for the first time in AGES! I felt bad for the girls this semester because we had to take turns with the car, and since it was SO cold for such a LONG time we were housebound for what felt like FOREVER. Emerie wasn't even sure how to play on the playground :). But it turns out she could sit in a swing all day if I let her. She's not much of a fan of the rest of the playground, or the other kids for that matter. Which brings us to the beginning of Nursery for her! She turned 18 months this month and got to start nursery. The first week she was fine, then the next week she was ok, then the third week she was sick and last week poor Hannah had to hold her a lot of the time! We've never had a problem with either of our girls playing or getting along with other kids, so this is new for us to have a clingy child in Nursery during church. But it gives Tyler a much needed break ;). Poor guy has had both of our girls during church from the time they could crawl until they hit nursery age.
Now it's May and it's beautiful and hasn't heated up so quick like last year! There's not a hint of humidity yet (knock on wood), not too many bugs yet and everything is finally starting to blossom! PLUS we're halfway through school! It's flown by! 24 more months haha. 24 more months.
Lyndi has started reading lessons and is halfway through her book today! 50 more lessons to go :) She's amazing and picks up on things pretty quick. She's been doing Joy School still and loves it and always counts down days until she gets to go again. She also has been learning how to ride a bike! She got one from Santa and it's finally nice enough outside to take it out for a spin.
Emerie is nuts ;). That girl and her food... enough said. Haha, just kidding, not really, but she does love her food! We had the missionaries over for dinner a few weeks ago, and they both looked at her and said "Woah, she eats a lot!" Haha. She is constantly dragging chairs over to our pantry and climbing to what she wants, then opens the packages and eats whatever she can before I catch her! She's started talking and is becoming a very "determined" child, to put it kindly. Lyndi and her play together really well half of the time and it's cute to hear them giggling together!
That's all for now folks! Sorry we're not more exciting to read about ;)
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