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March means...

Rediscovering the back yard! Swing set, watering flowers, trying to get grass to grow, putting expired beans in the almost empty turtle sand box....
Make-up mayhem. When we took the children to see Cinderella at Jesters the step sisters were wearing hideous make-up. Why does my daughter always pick the scary people to reenact?
Bubbles in camping chairs. I am super impressed with the $.99 Disney bubble necklaces we got at Target!
Going to the park. Michelle gets to enjoy being pushed on the swing by mommy, sister, & brother. Spoiled!
Play dates. Pictured is William, 2 weeks older than Michelle, at Chelsi W's house. We were visiting the ward co-op preschool & loved it. Kaelah & Danny are going Tues./Thurs. next year and after much thought I am switching Kaelah from my friend Stacie's at-home ps to my friend Stacey's at-home ps (for Mon./Wed.). lol.
Danny & Michelle love cats (especially Danny) so I took them to the Humane Society. Here they are when I asked Danny to help Michelle find another cat to look at. These 2 are so easy out & about together. Amazing how different family dynamics are when 1 child is missing from the group. Any 2 of my children are easy but somehow that #3 (whoever it is) can be the crazy #.
Dan's soft ball league started up the same week church basketball ended. Dan invited Danny & Michelle & I to join his team at the batting cages (Kaelah was at ps). I just happened to have a City Deals half price coupon so the children & I went an hour early and had a blast. No wonder Danny's favorite part was the go-karts. They let him ride a kiddie one by himself but had to go super slow. He loved it when he & I drove together & giggled almost the whole time.
Michelle decided mini golf was much more efficient if you just use your hands instead of the club.
And this is a sight we've seen more than once this month. They are being bakers... you would understand if you read the "Baby Wanna Be" book Shannon gave us when Kaelah was younger. (: On the topic of pull-ups, Danny has gone accident free for an entire week now! I am sooooo very proud of my 2.5 year old! Way to go, Danny! (Pun intended.) And Michelle only had one accident today, her 2nd birthday. She's well on her way. Of course, her birthday post will come after Saturday, when we celebrate. Tonight we had FHE about how we lived in Heaven before we were born and how Jesus was chosen to be our Savior & made the world for us. We also gave Michelle the Minnie Mouse dress we bought for her to wear on Saturday to Disney on Ice. The children we all super happy (even though Danny & Michelle have colds) so that's all that really mattered. I'm so lucky to have these 3 children in my family!

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