For ease of quick potty needs, I had phased out the one piece pajamas for Laney about 6 months ago. Well, she found a pair and has refused to wear anything else to bed since. She will refuse to put on pajamas until I find her the “animal pajamas.” And it turns out, they don’t impair pottying at all. See how happy she is about that?

I got a new computer about 4-5 months ago, which has been great with one exception: I no longer have a SD card slot, so when we use our fancy camera (which is less and less often as it’s kinda hard to hold that big camera and 3 children), it is hard for me to get the pictures off without digging out my old computer which inevitably needs software updates or is out of power or nowhere to be found.

A long explanation for why posting of Maggie’s monthly pictures has lagged – but may I present you with Maggie-by-the-month. These were actually taken on time but just not posted, I swear. We took her 11 month picture this morning with 16 hours to spare!

A lovely NC weekend a few days ago with temperatures in the 70’s and we basically spent the whole weekend outside. Kaya apparently had spent the week pre-arranging play dates with her friends so we obliged and spent Saturday with her classmates. It’s really Kaya’s world and we’re just living in it sometimes

We actually have been taking Maggie’s monthly photos, but just haven’t had time to sort and post them. As a sneak preview, here’s a cute pic of Laney. Maybe the block age is a little bit off for her though.

Although Maggie has been officially crawling for a few months now, she doesn’t actually do it much. She’s learned that with two parents, a rockstar Au Pair, and 2 older sisters, she just has to complain a little and someone comes to tend to her – so why crawl? While mostly annoying, this does have the advantage of allowing me to put her down in busy/interesting places and she’ll pretty much just stay put watching her surroundings for a while. She stayed on this exhibit at the local museum for a good 15 minutes, giving Mommy a much needed break!

We had a family photoshoot as a fundraiser for Kaya’s school and used on of the pictures for our Christmas cards – I was waiting to post the others so as not to ruin the mailbox surprise of our beautiful family at Christmas time – but here’s another of my favorites.

Happy February!

We a HUGE amount of snow for a typical winter here and the kids only went to school one day this week. It was measuring between 7 and 10 inches around the Chapel Hill area, which is unheard of for these parts. Luckily, the kids actually have snowpants and snowboots that fit, and we ventured out into the winter wonderland. Tommy even made it back from Boston before the storm hit. Poor Angelica has been stuck inside with 3 kids most of the week – but she was smiling when playing in the snow – this pic is definitely going on our Au Pair recruitment page next year.

Goal: To have the kids make me a chocolate cookies from scratch by themselves in the next 5 year. It will happen.

Our our trip to Philly, I was most excited to meet baby Grayson – the 6 month old baby boy of my college roommate Ashley. He was very cute and was very nice to share his toys. And it was lovely catching up with Ashley and see her place in Philadelphia. Smiles all around.

This was Laney’s third try at getting a haircut. The first two attempts were at my adult barber. She was terrified both times. So we went for the Disney experience to pierce the seal.