Off to a Good Start!

It is only February but we have already had a busy year. :) I turned 30 on January 3rd of this year. This was a big birthday for me because my twenties was pretty eventful! It was a special birthday because I am cancer free this year. It was also a birthday that I thought I would always share with my mom. Then, Margo turned 2 on January 28th! I had the flu the week before her birthday and Carter had the flu the week of her birthday. Poor girl, we had to cancel her birthday party and she barely got a sugar cookie and a present on her actual birthday. We finally got to celebrate the next weekend and she had a blast! She got her first pair of Twinkle Toes. :)

We had the big snowstorm last week and Carter loved it! I got to keep my niece and nephew Friday while the kids were out of school. I can honestly say it made me question why I ever thought I could handle more than 2 kids. :) None of the kids were bad or anything, but I was just out numbered. The kids had so much fun and that is all that matters.

This week the weather has been so pretty outside and Sunday we spent almost 3 hours at the park playing and attempting to feed the ducks. My kids still don't understand why standing at the edge of the lake and screaming, "Come here ducks!!!!" doesn't make the ducks swim to them. We went back Monday and they found two ducks to feed and Carter named them Rex and Rodeo. Margo was basically trying to shove goldfish crackers down their throats and I kept telling her to back up. :) Then we encountered a man and woman pushing a stroller and walking their small dog. When Carter asked if he could pet it she told him, "You better not, he is really protectiveof his daddy and he even bites me when I try and touch him." I am thinking, maybe you should get your small cute kid attracting biting rabid dog out of the park full of kids. Just a thought. Then as we were driving out of the park we saw them come around the corner and the dog was in the stroller! They didn't even have a baby in there! They just brought this big huge jogging stroller for this 8 pound dog. I wonder why this dog is confused and protective?

Yesterday was also Valentine's day. I could care less. It is a silly holiday to me and to be honest it just gives our men another day to fail at pleasing us. Why do that to them? I got to go to Carter's party at school and we had a great time. It is so crazy to me to see him as a big kid in a real school. He is growing up way to fast and I feel like now that he is in school he is going to grow up even faster. It is moments like those that I look at him and think how proud my mom would be of him and how much they enjoyed each other. She loved him so much and I am so sad that he is going to miss out on knowing her.

Tomorrow I am taking Margo to try a gymnastics class and I am hoping to get the kids to the zoo one day this week if the weather is still pretty. So far, this year is off to a good start. :)