Snow, Smiles, and More

Okay, so I am finally getting some time to blog....although I should be asleep. We have had....you could say a rough last 2 weeks or so, and lets just leave it at that. :) But we are all well, Josie is doing great, and we are ready for spring and the warmer weather.
We finally got a ton of snow so the kids could get out and play in. Owen and Joe made a fort which Owen wasn't fond of getting into after he saw Joe get stuck in it.












Yes, I am aware my son has on hot pink snowpants....I couldn't find his and Maggie wasn't going out that time so hot pink it was.
They also all made a snowman with thin mint cookies as eyes....but it melted before I thought to get a picture of it. A day or so after they made it we were headed out somewhere and Owen takes off running towards it while I was getting Maggie and Josie in their carseats. When he came and got in the van I went to strap him in and he is eating cookies....I had no clue where he got them until I look at the snowman and see he is "eyeless". Yes, Owen had pulled them off the snowman and was eating them. :)
Josie had her 1 month checkup today and is up to 10 lbs. 7 oz. so she's growing well. She is such a good baby, so laid back. She is already sleeping from 10 pm until 5am. Everynow and then she'll have a night where she gets up more but not very often. She is very happy and is smiling alot, although I have yet to get a picture of her smiling great big like she does. Here are some I took of her tonight where she is smiling some. As you can see she's done quite a number on her face with her nails...even though I am constantly cutting them.





























We are headed to the mall tommorrw for easter pictures so wish us well.....wish Owen well. :) Today it was so nice out so we headed to the park for a few hours. Joe got back from Alabama around 2 so he met up with us there. The kids had so much fun and enjoyed getting to be outside and run off some energy. They are really beginning to play well together. Don't get me wrong, at times it feels like WWF around here still, but there will be hours go by sometimes where they play great so that is hopeful for me. Listening to them play latley Owen reminded me so much of my Papa Whitey. For those who knew him I am sure you remember that no matter what you said, he'd smile and say, "yeah yeah." Well, Maggie was talking a mile a minute and no matter what she'd say, he would say, "yeah yeah Mag, okay." I couldn't help but laugh and hope he'd turn out as agreeable as Papa was.
Owen is very into telling us what he wants for his birthday and the other day we were driving along and he starts yelling, " look daddy, look, I want that for my birthday!!" We could not figure out what he was pointing at until finally I said, "Owen , do you mean that 18 wheeler "big rig" beside us?" and he says, "yeah yeah, I want that for my "birfday". Joe and I cracked up and broke it to him that he in fact would not be getting a 18 wheeler truck for his birthday. Well, hopefull I will have goodnews tommorow about the pictures!!