Riddle me this

Can we still be the madcity provans once we've moved here?

That's right - we have a house! So our check list is starting to look better:
* Quit jobs: Sarah = Check. Alex = In progress
* Find jobs: Sarah = Check. Alex = In progress
* Sell house: Check (think happy thoughts until we close on the 15th)
* Find house: Check (good job Alex)
* Quit daycare: Check (this has been super sad)
* Find daycare: In progress


We're getting there!

If we were a rock ‘n’ roll band

And we were up there on the stand,

The people would hear us and love us and cheer us,

Hurray for that rock ‘n’ roll band.

~Shel Silverstein (and c and m)

Batman!

Last night I had a volleyball game. Alex is in Utah, so we had Mike (c's favorite teacher EVER) come over to watch the girls. They had way to much fun, including fun with snap chat :o)

11 months!

Holy smokes she's almost a year old!

At 11 months m is:
* A ridiculously fast crawler, and is pulling up to stand on everything and anything
* Standing without holding on, but has yet to take steps without holding on to anything
* Getting harder and harder to redirect away from dog toys
* Using signs for all done and more
* Says "dada", "mama" and "Isaac" (Isaac is a friend at school)
* Doing a great job of following one step directions at school for things like washing hands and going to the table for lunch
* Going all day a daycare without a bottle (she drinks formula in a sippy cup with meals)
* Still a miraculously happy, loving, and fun baby girl

Lovies

M's new favorite thing is baa (c's lovie). It's been really interesting to watch the dynamic evolve. C generally likes that sharing baa is a surefire way to get m to smile and laugh, but occasionally hand him over only to clearly regret it right away. We've been trying to get m excited about flopsy instead (pictured below), but I have a feeling that baa the second is in our future...

because c still clearly needs baa :o)

Cure for a case of the Mondays

Baby + Pug = Happy Monday
You're welcome.
(I'll explain later)

Chalk family

Caroline came up this past weekend, and the sun and the chalk came out to celebrate. When m and I finally came out to investigate it was clear they had been hard at work!

I'm not sure the pictures really give you a sense of scale of just how long Alex's legs were, but the whole scene was pretty fantastic.

Good work team