Dressing for Any Type of Weather

My girls are learning the value of thoughtful accessorizing, as evidenced by their hat and eyewear choices in these pictures. We have seen this week that it can be sunny one minute and snowing the next, and one can never be too prepared.

This week, Mags is all about wearing her coat backwards. Fine with me.

All Hail Spring!

I don't really ever remember seeing this type of thing fall from the sky growing up in Jersey. Hail is cool.

Atticus: Hard at Work

It takes a lot of cat chow to maintain this position all day, every day.

Maggie's Favorite YouTube Video

Mags and I were having a little quality time the other day, randomly watching video clips on the computer. Here is Maggie's favorite - She's really impressed that the baby has both a stage and a guitar. And pillows that look like cars.

I like the "better, better, better, better - AAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!" part.

It's Spring, Dammit

Yesterday: Hail. This morning: Snow. Tomorrow: Hurricane? Tsunami? Avalanche? Tornado?

For the record, here's Easter at our house...

Here is video of those rare moments when the entire family is happily engaged in a common activity! Ellie picked up on the whole "hunt for the plastic things" idea immediately. Mags let Ellie find eggs without ripping them from her little fingers and claiming them for herself. Jay got involved with the hunt, which probably seemed hokey to him, but he played along. Very sweet all around.

Pictures:

Easter loot - Yes, I did give my children toothbrushes and dental floss instead of chocolate bunnies, and they were psyched, by the way.

Ellie and a little stuffed lamb. I am so glad that little things make her so happy.

Mags wearing ribbons down her back - much like Irene Malloy from Hello, Dolly. And don't even think that isn't why I bought them or that the similarity was lost on Maggie for one nanosecond. (Also note that Maggie has started dressing herself, thus the pink rainboots and ballerina skirt.)

Jay eating the blueberry bran muffins that Mags and I made for breakfast. This is the first picture that Mags took of him that day. And next, you'll see the 17th picture she took of him about 5 minutes later.

Updates

Anti-Fatigue Flooring! - Went in super-easy in the exercise room - like a giant jigsaw puzzle. The girls love to crawl around on it. Jay has already moved some weight equipment onto it. I am visualizing my Jazzer-haven complete with giant mirror and tv suspended on a little arm... I only hope the ridiculous odor that enveloped the room as soon as we opened all that floor packaging dissipates soon. As it stands now, you don't need to exercise to get a little high going in there.

The Mole - Although the doctor did not remove the mole we had previously discussed, but rather surprised me by taking off another behind my back, I am sure the one she removed was, as she said, the most suspicious looking one back there. It was also in the one spot on my body that I cannot, under any circumstances, reach at all. I am supposed to change the band-aid daily. Last night I decided that I would not wake Jay to do it, but would try to do it myself. With the contortions I was able to pull off, I probably could make a go of a career with Cirque du Soleil, but I cannot reach that spot, no way, no how! Regardless, other than some rotten itching, it is fine, and the rascally spot was just fine when examined under the microscope.