Spring Break 2014

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Christmas fun in Austin (4 months late)

We did a lot of Christmasy things around town this year. The kids preschool church had a breakfast with Santa. They had really fun crafts, yummy breakfast, a dress up nativity area, and Santa.

 

Madeline kept stealing the baby from the manger.  

My little angel 

This girl loves her daddy 

 

The coolest Christmas activity we have ever done was a walk through Bethlehem at a church in Round Rock. There were real animals. When you entered, the Roman solider wrote down your name. The kids received a satchel of coins. They could walk through the town doing crafts like basket weaving, pottery, rope making. The tax collector walked around collecting taxes. When we were at one booth, the tax collector came to take money from the bread maker. He refused to pay his taxes so the soldiers came to get him. Evan was so worried. He talked about that the whole day. Of course they had baby Jesus in the stable too. 

 We let the kids open a present before we left for Alabama.

Now, let's see how long it takes me to blog about things we've done since early Dec 2013...

Madeline 18 mos stats

 

This girl is 18 months now. She's still a tiny little thing but she has a big personality. She LOVES reading. I think she would sit if someone would read to her all day. She loves her brothers. She wants and tries to do everything they do. She loves her babies. She will wrap her baby in a blanket then hop in the rocker and rock. She loves doing anything outside.

 

Madeline has been slower than the boys in language development. I'm okay with that though. She has lots of single words but doesn't always use them...and I don't make her. She will copy almost anything the boys tell her to say. She looks at me and Brian like we are crazy if we try to get her to say something. She is beginning to combine words to make short phrases. Her favorite thing to say is "all done mama" (then she laughs). One evening she was finished eating so she said "all done". Brian got up to get her. She shook her head and said "all done...MAMA". Everyone at the table laughed. Now every time she's done she says it, looks straight at Brian, and laughs.

 

So here are Madeline's stats and all the kids comparisons at 18 months:

25 lbs (50th percentile)

31.5 inches (30th percentile)

don't remember how big her head was but it was 97th %

 

Luc at 18 mos.:

25 lb 7 oz (45th)

34 inches (90th)

head 50.5 cm (97th)

 

Evan:

25 lb 2 oz (35th)

33 inches (55th)

head 49 3/4 cm (90th)

 

On another note, Evan helped me pick out the boys Easter outfits. The compromise for the "fancy" shirt that I strongly encouraged was that he get to buy the shirt below. So the fancy shirt is for Easter and Evan's shirt choice is for any day he wants to wear it. You may see him wearing it every day. Then he wanted a picture in his new outfit.