The winter blues are genuinely hard for me. But, I suppose this winter, I can't complain! We had the perfect sprinkling of snow to have fun in. And generally warm enough weather to keep jogging outside. Pretty good! I also loved the pace of life this winter for the contrast it was to the previous year. After coming back from Cape Town, we quickly fell into a nice, simple routine. It felt like the first time we really hit that stride since having Beau, and I ate it up! Our weeks generally felt something like this:
Monday: Plan meals, play, grocery shop
Tuesday: Pre-school, errands, play (choir)
Wednesday: Play, library story hour (church ESL class)
Thursday: Pre-school, zumba, play
Friday: Either play date or gymnastics, play, pizza night with dad
All that with some work assignments for me thrown in there, keeping the house ticking, and some busier patches with Mike's work schedule. It's been very nice!
Lewis started primary at church this year. Since he's a December birthday and they go on the calendar year, he's the youngest one there. But, he knows the words to every song and he sings them loudly! He's a very cute little sunbeam! He adores his teacher (Sister Bag-a-ley, as he calls her), and is so sad if he ever has to miss her class. And, having his Daddy lead the music in big primary is the best!
We did have a couple little snowstorms for the boys to play in! For the first one, Beau had only just started walking. So trying to walk in a snowsuit with boots on and in squishy snow didn't work so well for him. He wasn't sure if he was really into it. Lewis loved it though! Our second snow was light enough that Beau could just walk right on through. Boy was he cute!
Lewis visited the dentist for the first time, and he was a champ! He got to try out every machine and instrument, and he loved it. Actually, they loved him! The hygienist even called me personally afterwards to tell me again what an angel he was!
Lewis also...POTTY TRAINED!!! The first weekend in February was our potty training weekend. It was filled with an over-abundance of anticipation, excitement, and juice (which we normally don't have). By mid-morning, Lewis was literally running around and around in circles and peeing everywhere! ;-) He also happened to have diarrhea that morning, so he had plenty of opportunity to practice going #2 on the potty!
Mom and Dad survived (especially after cutting off the sugar/juice supply), and by the end of the day, he basically had it! We were so proud of him! Now, lest you think we got off easy, he wasn't a miracle kid. He's done great, but it's two months later, and we're struggling with regression and him forgetting or not caring or fighting us on it or something!
We had lots of fun for Valentine's Day. Lewis took some very cute Valentines to school for his friends. (Mom was so proud!) I made my first full-size cheesecake...a red velvet cheesecake for the holiday. The boys got to enjoy licking the topping! And, Mike and I snuck out for a delicious dinner.
The other really fun thing we had for a couple months this winter was a Parent-Child dance class for Lewis on Saturday mornings. It was so cute! I took him to the first one, and he sort of took it all in. (He was a little surprised that he couldn't just do his cool moves, and wasn't so sure about some of the moves the teacher was doing!) Daddy took him to the second one, and after that, Lewis improved greatly. Turns out Mike is the task master, making Lewis practice his runs and leaps every week! It was a fun thing to do together!
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