February

Valentine's Day.  The boys had fun going through all of their Valentines and taking some to others. It's always fun to have a day to make extra special!

Sitting and watching the puppet show theater!

All of these things above are the things Alden won by entering the Renaissance Fair writing contest.  He came in second place, he had written a short essay about Matilda.  It was fun for him to enter and win a writing contest!

Benson's soccer  team.  

This was the first time Benson was on a team all by himself and he did quite well.  It was fun seeing him play.  He was the one that came up with the team name of the Monkeys and the shirt was his favorite color of yellow. It was amazing to see how well everything worked out for him with this little team of his.

Evan loves books and seems to enjoy making piles of things...like his brother Alden did. It was fun on this particular day to see how he had them all nicely arranged to form a circle around him.

For my birthday I decided to go to the zoo with my boys! It was a lot of fun.  I had been wanting to go to take Evan who had never been because I thought it would be good for him to see all of these animals we talk about and I knew he would love it.  Which he did! But this was my favorite moment of all, it was visiting the new Murkat that they have.  Everyone was excited but Calvin was just so happy and excited and jumping to see a Murkat, it just made my heart sing. (Calvin has a stuffed animal Murkat that he loves and sleeps with every night, so it was fun for him to see a real one, and one that was full of energy and excitement that played a little game with them.)