The Blanch Herd: Photos from Phones - February 2017 Round Up

Holy moley I'm getting behind on my posting. I'm slowly but surely catching up. But it's mid-April and here's our February round up. Oops. Anyway, better late than never, I always say. Here goes! (For being such a short month, I seem to have plenty of pictures to share and talk about! The neverending blessing/curse of the digital camera/cell phone age!)

2.1.17
(Sam's new reading perch - looks comfy!)

2.1.17
(spectacular sunrises we've been having lately)

2.1.17

2.1.17
(watching Clifford together while I take a shower - notice the missing
coffee table? it's become a baby gate to keep Sam in this room
while I take said shower. ha.)

2.1.17
(cute activity days girls tasting their cinnamonchip scones
that we made for our activity)

2.6.17
(back from St. George and bundled up again)

2.6.17
(their faces say it all - though I'm not sure if they're
grumpy about the weather or the stroller situation)

2.6.17
(stadium seating stroller)

2.6.17
(this is the one I insta-ed)

2.6.17
(I finished this book and I really enjoyed it/learned
a lot)

2.6.17
(to remind me of the bullet points that she talked
about through the book - maybe I should just buy it?)

2.7.17
(a big-time favorite of the three and under crowd. Callie would recite
these pages over and over and over and just cackle after she did so.
And then Sam joined in the fun saying "eeeeeeee" and then some
gibberish, followed by a big smile and giggle.)

2.8.17
(another day, another stroller ride)

2.8.17
(fifty degrees! no hats! wet roads! blue skies!
pink shovel?)

2.8.17
(what a grin!)

2.8.17
(the pile is shrinking! It used to be taller than her!)

2.8.17
(sunny and springlike)

2.8.17
(enjoying a little "shower" from the dripping
rain-gutter meltage)

2.8.17

2.9.17
(another good book I finished this month - I really
was on a reading roll; by the end of the month I
had finished seven books!)

2.9.17
(I counted this in my books read for the month since it was a
pretty in-depth picture book. and then we found a show on netflix
that talked about the same thing - so fascinating!)

2.9.17
(yep, this is my husband - don't ask; I have no idea)

2.10.17
(3 pm and still in jammies. must be a sick day (just look at Cal's
eyes!))

2.10.17

2.10.17
(oh boy - bored much?)

2.10.17

2.10.17
(at least Sam looks cute!)

2.11.17
(lunch at Chuckarama with the Blanchard bunch to celebrate
Laurel's birthday)

2.11.17
(and then it was ballet time! we saw Sleeping
Beauty and it was breathtaking!)

2.11.17
(every year Kim treats the ladies in the family to a classic
ballet at Ballet West; it's a marvelous tradition!)

2.11.17
(we came back for cake as a joint birthday party for Laurel and me)

2.11.17
(she made an amazingly rich and decadent tres leches cake
and we topped it with strawberries and cream!)

2.11.17
(mmmmm)

2.11.17
(Matchy matchy spring dresses from Grandma!)

2.14.17
(more art by Cal - I don't know when she drew these exactly, but
I had to make sure to photograph them before we re-papered the
walls eventually)

2.15.17
(it doesn't look like much, but what Cal is standing on is a giant
pile of sticks that has just enough slope to let her slide down
on her red sled)

2.15.17
(pulling it up all by herself)

2.15.17
(and down she goes! straight for the bush!)

bonus videos!

sledding "fun" number one

sledding "fun" number two

2.15.17

2.15.17
(be afraid. be very afraid. of pre-bath oreos)

2.16.17
(needed some extra snuggles before he was ready
for bed in his crib, I guess)

2.17.17
(holy moley with the selfies this month!)

2.17.17
(this is what bedtime story time looks like when it's solo
parenting week while Gregg was in Vermont)

2.17.17
(goofs. the lot of us.)

2.17.17
(the most realistic selfie of them all. also, photo evidence of Sam's
last bottle - he ended up puking all night right after Gregg got
home at 2 am, drank another bottle the next evening because we
thought he was fine, but he wasn't fine because he threw up the whole
thing within minutes; and he's never had another bottle since)

2.18,17
(somebody's glad to have her daddy home.
this is called heat vent snuggle reading)

2.19.17
(she's ready for church in her brand new dress!)

2.21.17
(a little stick and a watering can - what more do you need?)

2.21.17

2.21.17
(and the front yard looks like spring!)

2.21.17

2.21.17
(my little boy blue)

2.21.17
(Sam and I came inside from the puddle splashing to find Cal
curled up asleep on the couch (at noon!) (I added the blanket).
Guess she still hasn't regained all her energy after catching
the same stomach bug that plagued Sam and me this weekend)

2.23.17
(and just like that it's winter again)

2.23.17
(good thing this snow bunny doesn't seem to mind!)

2.23.17

2.23.17
(he loves to watch the fish at the library)

2.23.17
(some Mom and Sam time: sitting on my bed,
oinking at the pig on the cover of my notebook,
and giggling most-adorably)

2.23.17
(I mean, can you handle it?)

2.23.17
(that's what I thought)

2.24.17
(Gregg finished making the pizza and sent me out on a solo
walk around the loop)

2.24.17
(it was magnificent!)

2.26.17
(same dress, new Sunday)

2.26.17

2.26.17
(I was trying to get one of both kids in their new
outfits, but alas, as you see here, Sam was less
than cooperative)

2.27.17
(1 pm, eating our lunch, and what do we see
sniffing around our deck?)

2.27.17
(yep, him (her?))

2.27.17
(Callie said it was a milestone for her to see her
first raccoon while eating lunch)

2.27.17
(it stole a dirty diaper we had thrown out there
before taking it to the garage garbage. I tried to
scare it into dropping it, but instead it ran under
the deck with the sackapooey)

2.27.17
(I was so afraid we'd have a dead raccoon under
our deck because it ate such an awful meal, but
that was not the case as it came back the next day
for another round of sniffing at the door)