The rest of February

The rest of February went pretty well. Brandon got better and we had some pretty cold days and then finally a few days where it got warm enough that the boys wanted to play outside. We are sure ready for some warmer weather around here. 

Wyatt and Emmett decided that they needed to eat their lunch on the ground one afternoon. What silly kids. 

Emmett sat in our dump truck but then couldn't reach his food so he asked me to get it for him. 

We also watched the Gleaves kids while they went furniture shopping all day long one the Saturday after Brandon was just starting to feel better. It was a busy day. Ethan had a basketball game at 9 that morning. So Owen and Cole got dropped off at our house at 8:30 and we headed to the basketball game. Then we went and got slurpees with the kids and took them to Scheels to let them play a little bit. Then we headed home and let them play at our house and Brandon sat down to relax since he was still just getting better. Tell you what it was hectic trying to do just what we did with those extra boys. It didn't help that they didn't want to listen to us. haha It all turned out ok though and we were glad when it was over. haha 

At the basketball game I kept telling the boys that they needed to stay in the court room with us. They had went outside the doors at one point and I told them that they could stand over by the doors but couldn't leave. Well next thing we know Brandon goes to check on them and both Owen and Cole at left the court and he found them in the bathroom by the pool. Then when we were leaving Owen just started taking off and the cole started taking off and I had to make them hold hands with my boys so they wouldn't get lost. Or rather so we wouldn't lose them. It was just nuts!! We had only been with them for 1 hour and we were all ready over it. haha 

In order to try and get the kids to stay still and stop running off and wrestling on the ground while I went and bought some scotcheroo's and cinnamon almonds Brandon told them to act like statues. He took this picture but told me later that our boys were the only ones standing still and that the other boys didn't last very long before they started running around again. 

After lunch and nap time we took the kids to the park for just a little bit. It was pretty chili outside still so we didn't last very long. Plus I was told to put sunscreen on Cole if we went outside because he is a red head and burns easily. Ya, I forgot to do that so we headed home after only being at the park for maybe 30 minutes. 

That night we got some papa murphy's pizza and let the kids eat and watch a movie downstairs. They were pretty excited about this. They drank tons of root beer and ate their pizza up. 

Then it was bed time for our boys. Emmett wanted to sleep in the room on the floor with all the other boys. So we attempted to allow that. It didn't last very long. Emmett kept getting out of bed and goofing off and we eventually just put him in his crib so he would actually sleep. Cole and Owen wouldn't calm down and go to sleep so we ended up just bringing them downstairs with us so that our boys would go to sleep. We let Owen and Cole stay up and play until their parents got back around 9:30. They picked them up and Brandon and I had a little bit of piece before going to bed. It was such a crazy day! 

It finally warmed up enough to start melting the snow and then it froze over night and we had tons of icicles hanging from our pergola. The boys thought it was super cool. We had an even bigger icicle hanging below our trampoline. It was bigger than Emmett and probably an inch thick. It was pretty cool to see and the boys couldn't believe how big they were. 

After Brandon got over his sickness and had a consult with an ENT scheduled he looked into Wyatt's throat to see his tonsils. Brandon had just had a bad dream about Wyatt having his tonsils close up and not being able to breathe and Brandon said that in his dream he was holding open Wyatt's tonsils with a dental mirror as we rushed to the emergency room. Not a fun dream at all. So he looked into his throat that morning and so I took a picture of his tonsils later just to get proof of how massive poor Wyatt's tonsils are. He totally needs to get his out! 

Then of course Ethan wanted a picture of his tonsils. Thankfully, Ethan and Emmett have tonsils like me. Very tiny tonsils!! :-) 

This last week of February we had some nice days. The sun was shining and the wind was not blowing. It felt so nice outside and we tried to take advantage of that and played outside in the backyard before Wyatt headed off to preschool. 

We also got to go watch Brandon play his last basketball game of his season. The game was at 6:15 so we decided it would be fun for the boys to see how their daddy plays basketball. It was fun to watch and it was a good game. Plus, Brandon's team won in overtime with Brandon making a ton of shots near the end. It was fun to watch!! What a great way to end the month of February!