*Mostly* Pleasant Happenings at Home

Thank goodness for washable markers! I'm not sure how he got a hold of the markers that are usually in a tough-to-open-container up high in the playroom. I can only assume someone left them out. We just can't seem to keep him out of trouble these days. We try to shut doors and take precautionary measures but seem to fail in that department a lot! Grant is talking more and more and using new words almost daily--so exciting and cute.

Aubrey is my little helper and likes to help me clean. Yesterday she really wanted to mop, so she moved all the chairs out of the kitchen, swept with her little broom, and mopped the whole floor. I helped along the way, of course, but it sure was cute to watch her work so hard.















Grant "helping" (mostly just getting in her way)















A couple weeks ago when Kari had a 2-hour delay for school, Grant fell asleep in the car at 10am and stayed asleep when I brought him back inside. He dropped the morning nap over 6 months ago, but he had been up in the night and then awake since 5:30am (when will this child ever learn to sleep?!), so he was super tired and the car ride lulled him to sleep. Aubrey wanted to hold him and "pretend that he's a baby." He woke up minutes later--no surprise there--but she sure enjoyed snuggling with sleeping Grant.

I'm enjoying a nice season of kids getting along right now. Aubrey and Joel play for hours together. It's been wet and cold outside with a mix of snow and rain this week, so we've been inside a lot. Joel didn't have school today, and he and Aubrey have been playing together (without fighting!) since 6am--that's six hours of constant, imaginative play. Amazing! Grant will probably start getting in the way, but for now, there is relative peace, and I love it. When I snapped this photo, Aubrey was "reading" a Star Wars book and Joel was acting it out.