AHHHHH!!! We're out of babies!!

 What the what!?! 

I seriously lost track of time and FAILED to blog since November 29. I mean, Rowan is basically an adult now and the kids are looking into nursing homes for us. 

Here are my list of excuses- Christmas, New Year, Snow Days, Basketball coaching, and LIFE. 

So three months of these kids growing up, getting big and becoming so ridiculously independent. I love it all and it's just flying by even though I am still up several times a night. It's pretty cool how your body just accepts the lack of sleep as normal. ;) 

So this boss baby- he's slept through the night a total of 4 times in his life....but look how cute he is! He is talking his little head off, having gibberish conversations with anyone who will listen. And let it be on record that he says Momma! He also says hi, and bye bye, he's very chatty...and loud! He is big stuff but we haven't been to his 9 month well check yet because doctors visits are tough to schedule right now for our peds office. He is obviously very well fed, very big stuff and very happy. He's just not a baby anymore!

The wildest one- most days- is this Mister Miles. He continues to be Toy Story obsessed. He is also momma obsessed so my arms are getting an awesome weight lifting work out, daily. He is busy being Buzz Lightyear as he leaps off anything he can climb on. He is very logical in the morning and it somehow wears off by mid afternoon. He is so smart though, he is able to recall crazy quotes and facts that he' learned. His coloring skills are on point for a two year old. As long as his shoes feel "right" and he's wearing a Buzz Lightyear shirt of some kind- he's quite the gentleman. 

She used to be the wild one and now she's quietly making plans to make sure she's in charge. She's got big ideas and a thousand questions for you. She sings along to the Encanto soundtrack, and makes adorable comments about "hula loops" and how "prettyful" the lights are. She knows how to listen but is selectively going to follow directions. She's still a firecracker but now has an extensive vocabulary. She also pretends she can read and it's not half bad. 

Lucy is reading! It's the coolest thing to see in your own kid after working on teaching reading to other kids for 11 years. Lafayette Academy has just been wonderful, as have my parents as they practice sight words and handwriting and letter recognition while I am at school. We read and have a blue million books here, but Lucy- that girl is doing the work! She started getting sight words this year from school to practice and just started to put together that those letters are making sounds and she would love to have all the information those letters are spelling out. I used to joke with her that she needs to quite learning how to spell words because I won't be able to spell things I didn't want her to know about- that really fueled her motivation. She sat with me today and read through a dozen A level books. They are repetitive and use sight words in simple stories- but wow- it is so cool to watch her. 

She's also giving her best in the world of basketball! She is definitely the smallest on her team and probably the most unexperienced... but she loves it and was adamant that her coach "needed" her to be at the games. :)