Our Month of March!

 Happy Spring everyone!  We hope you are all enjoying the sun that is shining and the new life that is starting to grow.  We are so excited that April is here.  Here is a recap of our March:

#1: Abigail turned 3!
I have mixed emotions about my baby girl turning 3.  It is weird to think that she is 3, but at the same time it feels like she has been 3 for a while.  I always loved being in public with my 2 year old and to see the shock on people's face when they asked if she was 3 or 4 and to reply that she is only 2.  She is really tall and has a great vocabulary. So it is only fitting that she is now 3!

She had a great birthday.  We kept it low-key this year.   Her only request was a princess castle cake.

Here is what she woke up to in the morning: 

She loves her new kitchen!  

We took brownies to nursery.  

 

After church we spent the afternoon skyping with grandparents.  At the end of the day a few friends came for some food, cake and ice-cream.  It was a great day.  

We love our Bugaboo so much!  She is so smart and such a sweet girl.  I love her giggle and hearing her sing.  I am so grateful to get to hang out with her all day, every day.  She is sunshine in life! 

#2: We survived our first Milwaukee winter!  Yes, awful is an understatement about winter here.  I don't mean to be a whiner but it was bad.  Now that spring has sprung there is a chance that I might start liking Milwaukee again :)  For most of March it was still cold but we had a few days in the 30/40's that we took advantage of:

We made the voyage across the street to our lovely park

And we even voyaged down the street to the zoo.

#3: Some fun playdates!  Abigail loves her friends.  It is fun to watch their little imaginations and their minds in action.  One day we were having a presidency meeting when I saw Abigail's friend run across the entrance to the room in only a swimming suit.  She started calling Abigail to follow.  Abigail shouted back: "I can't, my mommy will see me!".  That caught my attention.  This is what I found.  All the girls decided they needed to go "swimming" in this "swimming pool".

A random picture of Ab's and Jacob taking a ride on Benson 

#3Happy St. Patrick's Day!  We braved the cold and headed to the St. Patty's Day parade.  Milwaukee definitely knows how to do candy in a parade.  We came home with way too many sweets. 

#4: No more baba!  In celebration of Ab's turning 3, the day after her birthday she got to go make a binky bear.  I was so nervous about how she would do without her binky.  But she has done great!  Here she is holding her two binkies that she put in the bear: 

Making the bear; putting her binkies inside.

Giving her new bear a good bath. 

It was all fun and games until we got home and started getting ready for bed.  She asked for her binkies.  As soon as I reminded her where they were she broke down and started sobbing. (Which of course made me cry too).  She cried herself to sleep in my arms that night but has been great since!  Out of habit she asked for it the next day but was fine when we reminded her.  She loves cuddling the baba bear and feeling the binkies inside.

#5 A little part of home was in our neck of the woods.  This isn't a great picture of the actual event but the Jazz came and played here in Milwaukee.  Our sweet landlord took us to dinner and to see the game.  We were booed a few times when cheering for the Jazz.  We had a lot of fun!