April 2015 - Part 4

On Mara's birthday, Xander lost a tooth!!  Both he and Mara hadn't lost a 

tooth for over a year but now all of a sudden they are both losing a bunch!

We got out the mega blocks to play with and Melody built this all on her own and showed me!

On Mana's birthday, April 14th, we had an adult dinner at Olive Garden. It's so nice 

to be with family when we don't have loud/screaming children to worry about.

Then it snowed in the middle of April. Jaina begged me to go outside to play 

in the snow. I tend to be a 'no' mom, but I decided to be a 'yes' mom. 

So I got her and Melody bundled up for the cold and took them outside.

My lilac bush under the snow.

This was Melody's first experience with snow. She mostly just walked around 

on the cement and wasn't too happy when I put her IN the snow. 

But otherwise she seemed to have fun outside in the cold.

Jaina just loved making snow balls and throwing them in the street.

Afterwards we came inside and had hot chocolate.

Melody is starting to really play on her own at times. I love when I'm able to catch her and just watch.

She can now climb on the chairs.

One night when Mana and Karri came down, Melody got into Karri's purse 

and pulled out her name tag from Target. So Karri put it on her. It was 

really cute, and she was happily looking at pictures on Mana's phone.

Melody really likes books too. She will find any book she can and climb into your lap to look at it.

In celebration of Mana's birthday we had our usual pedicure outing, and this time Sawyer came along too.

Peek-a-Boo

Happy Birthday Mom!

When Melody wakes up from her nap her hair is 'curly', and it makes me smile. Since none

of my kids got my red hair, I'm hoping that maybe Melody got my curls. Only time will tell.

I realized that her hair was getting longer so we ventured with piggies!!  

It automatically makes her look older.

I can't turn my back for one second with this climbing girl.

Cousin Maddox came to sleep over. The boys were playing the Wii U and 

Melody had to lay down like Maddox and watch them play.

Gotta love that Oreo face!!

We went to the mall with Karri and Jaina really wanted to ride the carousel. So since 

I was trying to be a 'yes' mom, she got a ride. And she was the only one on it!