Project 365, Week 4

We had a good week.  The weather has been "mild", which helps the house not be quite so chilly.  We mostly stuck close to home and nursed a sick (miserable, cranky) Amanda. 

There is a bit of a crib theme throughout the week.  Last week many of you commented how the crib photo brought back fond memories or that it was cute.  The crib is a daily hangout around here, so I thought I'd be a little more deliberate about documenting it.

Again, don't be confused by the sweater that you see on Avery.  These pictures were in fact taken on different days.  I'm not complaining.  She is a neat kid who doesn't have b.o. and the laundry is significantly less when she wears the same thing all week.  For now at least, it would seem we are out of the change-my-clothes-a-minimum-of-five-times-a-day stage.

I hope I don't get kicked out of the Project this week....I have an overload of pictures and though none were spectacular, it was hard to leave them out!  I'll try to do better next week.  Who knew one could take so many pictures doing nothing.  :)  I threw in a couple extra pictures of Aiden because the boy is getting bigger by the day!

January 17

Family day.  We went out to breakfast and then the evening was spent playing games.  Its so fun now that the girls are getting a little older and its actually enjoyable to play an organized game with them.  This is a "game" using nouns, verbs, etc to put sentences together.

January 18

I untied the dog so he could eat and walk around and in less than 20 minutes he'd run away.  So, I packed the kids in the car and drove around the block several times.  Avery spotted him in someone's fenced-in yard.  He'd been there 10 minutes tops, and the woman had already fed him.  Who does that??  I wanted to remove his collar with his ID and leave him there but instead I loaded his 90 lb muddy self into the back of the car and brought him home.  Dumb dog.

The girls were thrilled for the adventure.

January 19

I took this picture right before bed 'cause I didn't think I'd taken one for the day....

...but then I found this one that was taken first thing in the morning...obviously.

January 20

Amanda woke up quite sick, so I broke my tv-viewing-limit rule and let them watch a movie.  See how excited Aiden is about Barbie Rapunzel?

...but then I felt better about their brain cells (or lack thereof) when I found them like this.

January 21

Possibly inspried by Rupunzel, Avery finally allowed me the honor of braiding her hair, "off to the side".  Ironically, her sister with much shorted hair asks for a braid everyday, while Avery says no, no, no.  When she saw this picture, she was thrilled and declared she wanted a braid EVERY day.  Oy vey!

January 22

We've hired a "mother's helper" to come to the house several hours a week to entertain the kids so I can be assured some quiet for work while Shaun is in the thick of tax season.  I try to save all my phone calls for this time because its not the most professional thing to be talking with a customer while a baby is crying in the background.  Cherie is won.der.ful.  Since she is homeschooled, her schedule is flexible.  She comes ready with a new, fun activity or book for the girls and the girls look forward to their time with her.  She takes her job very seriously and has been a blessing.

After naps, we prepared to go for a walk but then I got a work email that had to be dealt with right away.  By the time that was resolved, there was not enough daylight for our thee-mile loop, so we settled for around the block with the girls pushing their strollers instead of riding in one. 

Avery donned a necklace, got the babies buckled in with a neatly folded blanket and packed her backpack.

January 23

My project for the day.  The last decade's pictures are (somewhat) organized.  I all but stopped getting prints made in 2008.  It shouldn't have made the top 40 on my priority list, but I got it in my head and now its done.

You can see lots of other Projects at Sara's blog.