March bluebonnets with Wilder and Felicity

Ah, Texas in the springtime! We took these photos in March, in Cedar Hill at the park near Sharon and Dean's.

Zach was studying for his realtor license this month, and then I worked a conference for a week straight (plus a very heavy deadline workload), so our time together is starting to change. And we knew it would only change more as Zach transitioned to a realtor position. Therefore, we really enjoyed the sweet times we had together as a family in March: reading, playing trains, blowing bubbles, going for walks. I strung up string in our kitchen to make a "gallery wall" of the art the kids made during our homeschool time, and they love seeing it up there and discussing it.

Both kids got sick this month--Felicity got her first ear infection. :-/ When they weren't sick, they got to meet up with Zach's cousin Kelle and her six children at a nearby playground. They live in Germany right now, so it was great for the kids to get to play.

This month, Felicity's been talking more and more. She's figured out how to ask to nurse and says "NACK" (Snack) whenever she sees me. And she can say "open, shut!" with hand motions. She loves reading books right now. She was missing Wilder at school. One day he came home and she ran and grabbed his hand to show him around in the front yard all the things she noticed. Felicity loves to get into my makeup, and she put some on Zach! He looked beautiful.

When Wilder thinks something is funny, he laughs maniacally and say OH MY GOODNESS!" or "Oh my gosh!" (working on that one!). Wilder really understands bedtime stories, and he'll repeat them back from memory. He still loves his trains! And he even pooped on the potty - it was a fluke, but still! Wilder has started being affectionate with Felicity. They were taking a bath and she wasn't feeling well, and he gave her big hugs. The next day, she fell down and hurt herself, and he gave her another hug and she stopped crying.

Here are some more photos from our bluebonnet shoot!

Attempting a hug

Wilder and Felicity, February 2017

Wilder, Februrary 2017

Felicity, 16 months

Just some notes from February, since I'm backdating these posts. :-/

Wilder likes to say "I've never seen ______" before! Even if it's something he sees every day, like a crane. I think he gets it from Percy off Thomas & Friends. Wilder was the ring bearer for Zach's cousin Becky, and he looked so handsome in hits 3-piece suit. He walked down the aisle by himself during rehearsal with his eyes closed because of the people!  He pushed Felicity in the stroller all by himself! Tough to do with a big double stroller! Wilder got a doctor kit, and as he laid out the toys for the first time, Felicity swiped one. So he gathered them all up and ran off to my room where he could line them all up carefully. I went in to check on him and he asked to be left alone. Ha!

Right now, Felicity likes to be silly when you're putting her down for the night, but if you say "are you ready for bed?" she burrows into you. She started saying Wilder's name - more like "wowduh" and it's so cute. A friend of ours said Felicity is a "participant in her life" and it's so true. She gets into everything and is constantly DOING things. It's interesting in contrast to Wilder. I feel that he really likes to narrate his life. He still does things, but is very much interested in talking about it as he does it. Felicity now has more hair than I do, and it's like princess hair: perfect curls, no frizz! Right now, I think I can say this because I know she'll grow out of it, but Felicity runs just like an orangutan. She's still figuring out how to walk. It's so funny.

The kids made cupcakes for Valentine's Day. Wilder likes cracking eggs and stirring. Wilder let Felicity play with his trains for the first time.

Here are some photos from a couple of days in February. They're so on-the-go, it's hard to catch them sitting still!