This year so far...

So January, February, and half of March has slipped by without slowing down so that I can document.  So let me try to start writing things down.

Glen took his first steps in November, but he did not seem too interested in walking.  That is until January!  In January Glen just decided to take off with walking and he now prefers to walk rather than crawl.  He is good at walking and is getting faster and faster.  This morning I heard Grace and Glen playing in a bedroom with Grace yelling "ready, set, go!"  It made me smile because I know who will win right now, but soon...oh, Grace will have competition!

Matt and I are painting our living room.   We decided to have a party at our house, but not all of the painting was done.  So I came up with the idea to provide markers for the guests and tell them to have fun on our unpainted wall.  They had so much fun they filled up that section and we had to bring out our white board that is 8 foot by 4 foot.  That too had to be erased many times to make room for more and more drawings.  In painting that wall later, it took anywhere from 4-7 coats of paint and primer to cover it up...but it was worth it!
 

 While at mamaw and papaw's house, Eamon was trying to teach Grace some soccer moves.  Notice her jeans and her princess skirt (yes, that is her choice of fashion)

 Matt and I brought out some plywood to work on a project for the playroom (which is still not done).  Glen discovered that his cars made a fun sound on the board.  Not to be left out, Grace started to play cars with him.  It made me smile that they were playing nicely together, they had come with the game themselves, and it kept them happy for about 10 minutes.

 Glen reading in his room.  Recently Glen has been pretending to pick up imaginary items off of the floor and handing them to us.  It is so cute.

 Last week we had a snow that gave us about 18 inches of the white stuff.  However, it was all gone two or three days later.  But while we had it, the kids loved playing in it.  Grace enjoyed playing it much more than Glen, but that is to be expected.  We did discover one thing about Glen though, he is NOT a fan of gloves or mittens.

 Grace in the snow, and no she is not kneeling down.  In fact she was up to almost her waist with the snow at points.

 She made snow castles.

 Mamaw, Adam, and Grace made snowmen.  They had a great time.

 Recently I was given my old My Pretty Ponies from my childhood.  Grace discovered them soon after.  She has fallen in love with them and she makes sure that she has one or two of them at all times.  It makes me happy to see her playing with and enjoying my old toys.

 What I found Grace and Glen doing one day as I finished making dinner.  Happy moment!

This has been Grace's favorite place recently.  We have cleaned out the garage so that both cars can be parked inside.  But when one car is out, Grace uses the extra space as a warm place to ride bike.

This was this morning.  I decided to give each child a cookie sheet and two scoops of pudding.  They could finger paint, Grace practiced letters, shapes, and numbers (in between eating it).  They loved it.  It led to a bath and washing the floor, but it was worth it.

 

Update on Grace:  She will be starting gymnastics this weekend, I think she will like it.  She knows lots of shapes, colors, numbers, letters.  She knows the sounds for most letters and can identify five words in isolation and also written randomly in books.  When asked what her name is she responds "Daniels"  after much more prompting, she might tell you it is Grace but not always.  We need to work on that.

It has been a good beginning to the year.