For a while I sort of ignored the fact that Piper's hair was getting long. It's curly at the bottom so most days I would wet it and push it back. It started looking pretty messy so I went and bought a bunch of hair things. She looks so cute in pigtails, unfortunately though she takes them out after about three minutes. There are currently about 84 of her little hair bands strewed on the floors in our house.
Asher brought his trains and pushed them around in the sand for most of the day.
We collected a couple shell pieces which Asher has decided to carry with him everywhere. We went out for pizza yesterday and he had to bring all of them and put them on the table.
Nate came home last week and it's been great. The kids love having him around. The weather was really nice this weekend and we went to the zoo on Friday. You will notice there are no animal pictures here. That is mainly because although my kids love the zoo they really don't care to look at the animals all that much. Asher's favorite activity is pushing the stroller.
We went up with some friends and they have twins Asher's age. He loves playing with them.
Piper walked around a bit, and then took advantage of the stroller option. Her favorite animal of the day was a turkey. I think it was because it was the closest thing to a rooster there (still her current obsession). Asher enjoyed the giraffes. I enjoyed the fact that we went to Cracker Barrel afterwords.
Our church has been partnering with the local crisis pregnancy center for the last couple of years. Once a year they do a baby bottle drive. Families take home baby bottles and fill them with change. Each bottle has a baby to pray for. All the money goes towards the center and helping local women and the kids. This week both kids took money out of their piggy banks to fill our little bottle. They both enjoyed filling it and Asher sort of understood why we were doing it. Serving is a hard concept to teach, but we want to teach him now how to be generous.
By seven this evening all the sugar began taking its toll. Asher crashed pretty hard.
About a week and a half ago sickness entered our house. It conveniently waited until Nate was away on a business trip. Piper had been up all night with a cough. She woke up with no fever and was pleasant. Our doctors office doesn't make appointments for sick visits, it's only walk-ins. I didn't want to cancel Asher's speech therapy session so I thought we'd go afterwords. That was a huge mistake. We ended up being in the waiting room for 3 hours before we even got called back. There was only one chair for me, my big belly, and both kids. After the first 2 hours we were out of all snacks and distraction ideas. I literally promised Asher anything he wanted from Walmart and all the snacks he could eat later if he would just be a little more patient. When we saw the doctor we found out Piper has RSV and bronciolitis. She was given a prescription for an inhaler and the news it would take about 2 weeks to completely recover. About a day and a half later Asher and I came down with some version of what she got. I had a fever for three days and Ashman was just miserable. We are all past the worst, but are still coughing and feeling a little yucky. On the plus side I think I now have Toy Story 3 memorized since it's been on a constant loop for the last week.
Asher has always enjoyed learning the parts of the body. He likes to stick his tongue out and he'll put his feet all over you. Nate and I want to answer all of his questions truthfully and it has led to some comical situations. Luckily we have gotten past the point where he asks all the custumers in Walmart if they have a penis. About a month or two ago he started asking where his food goes. I told him he chews it with his teeth and it goes down into his stomach. He was satisfied with that for a while. A few weeks ago he kept telling me about all the food that was in his stomach. I explained to him that food only stays in his stomach for a little bit. Of course he asked what happens to it next. I told him that it goes through his intestines and he poops it out. Of course he loved that. Now every time he eats he tells me about how it's going to become poop and end up in the potty. I'm sure his teachers at preschool really love that.
Today Asher and I made Valentines. He has a party at school this week and I found a cute idea online. He didn't want to hold it himself, which is ok considering I did 99% of the work. We don't have our camera so I just had the laptop take the pictures. The writing is backwards, but it says "Brody, You Rule". Asher had much more fun cutting up paper with scissors (his newest obsession).
Piper loves to play in her crib. Both her and Asher will go in together. It usually doesn't last too long because one of them tends to be aggressive and the other is sensitive. Piper has a little table that she reaches from her crib. I love listening to her play.
You can also see that we recently painted this room. I can't really take any credit for it. On Nate's last trip a few guys from church came and painted it for me. Piper will move into Asher's room soon and this will be the baby's room. My C-section was scheduled for March 30th! Less than 8 weeks now.
