The MacDonalds: February 2016

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Daddy's visit

Leevi was able to fly home over President's Day weekend. He got in late Thursday night, so we had all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday with him and he left around noon on Monday to drive the 2hrs back to the airport and fly to Va. It was a great weekend and not too rushed or too hectic. We got in lots of family time and we super sad that he had to leave. He'll be back Easter weekend!

We celebrated Hailey's birthday a week early with just family. She spent the following weekend celebrating on her actual birthday with Riley and double sleepover nights (here and there) and then this coming weekend we'll have her party with friends from school. Talk about spreading out the birthday fun!!!!!

She commented that she's old enough to light her own candles!

Present time!!!

She's still into Lego Friends. Ten was a hard year to buy for!

Clue game

New jacket

She got a few MC^2 experiments.

Family bowling for Hailey's birthday

She has talked about karate-chopping her cake for years so we figured a first double digits birthday would be suiting! It'll definitely be a tradition now for when each kid turns 10! We did it with the family cake (after she washed up to her elbow!) It wasn't as dramatic as we thought it would be...I'll have to tweak the recipe/design and have it perfected by the time Whitney turns ten!

Sweet smooches for Whitney's first Valentine's Day!!!!

I LOVE how this turned out!

These were some other cutie faces that I liked...I had originally taken the photos with the white wooden backdrop, but I didn't like how the letters blended it. Thankfully Whitney doesn't care yet how many times it takes to get a good photo! I love her silly piggy toes in the top set.

Leevi helped Luke build a rocket fort.

And we played lots of family games throughout the weekend.

On Valentine's morning, church was cancelled because of icy roads, so we had time for a big breakfast complete with homemade chocolate covered strawberries.

The girls set up a fancy Valentine dinner for us downstairs and retreated upstairs to eat their own dinner so we could have privacy, oh my so sweet!!!!! They even kept Whitney upstairs for us! But Luke decided that he needed to eat with us, sweet little man!

And then we watched a movie together...Goosebumps, not exactly a romantic comedy on Valentine's day, but the kids liked it. It was pretty scary and Luke kept hiding under his blanket. I asked him if he wanted me to play upstairs with him instead and he said, "nope!"

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

3 months old!!!

Bam, another month down!!!!!!

This month was also a blur with the holidays wrapping up and then Leevi leaving at the beginning of the month. She's old enough now to be somewhat on a routine as we hit the end of this month. She still eats about every 2 hours during the day and catnaps about 30 minutes after she's been up for about an hour and a half. She nurses one last time between 9-10pm and will stay asleep until 4-5am and then sleep until 7-8am. High five, Whit Whit!!!

Sweet baby doll

Probably one of her last naps out in the chaos...she's definitely in her room now so I don't have to shush the kids constantly.

And I try to get her down before I get stuck like this!

She'll keep herself busy here for quite awhile grabbing at her toys.

She sleeping in our room still at night...not sure when I'll make the switch to her room, maybe once she out-grows the rock-n-play.

She's not a huge fan of the bumbo, but it works for short periods.

This is how she naps now during the days....swaddled, feet/legs elevated, white noise, and she starts with her mobile on. She's great about self-soothing and getting herself to sleep. Her eyes immediately start to close when she gets swaddled.

Luke was sooooo excited when he found out she was "three" like him!!!

He absolutely adores her and I'm sure she will too as she grows. As of now, she flinches when she sees him coming!!! It's quite hilarious!

"Oh wait, was I supposed to stay asleep when you put me in my bed??!!"

We are skipping winter and spring sports this year to help with the craziness of Leevi being gone. The girls still have baton, but I'm blessed with friends who take them and bring them home for me!!!!!! And they are also starting American Heritage Girls at our church and Jennifer takes them for me since Riley also participates. But I still have to shop for food, ha, so we venture out every now and then!