February 16-March 1

Ohio has decided that Thursday school in February is ridiculous. The girls only went to school one Thursday this month, and even that was a close call.

Kaitlyn had a doctor's appointment a couple of weeks ago because her tonsils are swollen and she can't hear out of one ear. They didn't find anything except a lot of wax and since she reports zero pain, they said to just keep an eye on her to see if she improves. Thus far she has not. We did get her weight, though, so we know that she's 41 pounds.

A Matthias thing that I think I have not mentioned yet: He likes to play CDs and dance to the songs. He will put a CD in the CD player, run into the empty space in front of the back door, and wait for his jam to come on. For a long time, his favorite song was the teacher track for a Music Together song called Hey Ya Na. What is hilarious to me is that this particular track is very simplistic. Three minutes of a steady drum beat with jingle bells. No variation in rhythm, no words or music. Matthias turns that on and happily bounces to the drum and bells for three minutes.

Theodore is six months old. He has two teeth, rolls front to back, and is beginning to sit up. He is a worse sleeper than I would like, so we've been working on sleep training and night weaning. His newest talent is grabbing a toy and hitting himself in the face with it. He hits his face on the first try 90% of the time.

Pictures:

A few pictures from my trip to Austin. I've never seen a peacock in a tree before.

 

Proof that each of us exists:

Young Johannah:

Theodore, serenaded to sleep by my woodshedding of excerpts:

Fancy fingernails for the girls. A Valentine's day gift:

Matthias, being so cool:

Sibling love:

Art projects at the open house. Gretchen's is the penguin, Olivia's is the one catching snow:

A laundry basket picture. He was not as happy as he looks in this picture:

Someone's getting big!

A college picture of Bryan:

A Lima Symphony picture of me. Can you find me? I'm not sure when exactly this was taken, but I do find it amusing that this is the picture they chose to use to advertise their upcoming auditions. Maybe I can bring this in instead of auditioning?

Zach took pictures of Theodore:

I must have cleaned off a laptop or something... Here are a few more old pictures: