January 2014 odds & ends

Lydia & LeaAnn sat down one day, cut off the pom-poms from one of their hats, glued them to a piece of paper and said, "Look momma! We made a craft!" :) How could I be mad? Those hats are 6-years old! Regardless, it was super cute... and you can see here Lydia writing her name all on her own :)

Here, Lydia wrote a letter to Santa :) She wants duct tape, Squeakers, Stuffy & Lamby (all from Doc McStuffins) and... 2 Lolly-pops :)

The girls playing Spot It... the game Lauren received from Grammy for Christmas! Such a great game... easy, fun and definitely competitive... Sean & Kelsey stopped by the other night and the girls' taught them how to play. It was at that point, Chris & Sean decided it could ALSO be a betting game as well.... of course it can! ;)

One random snowy, cold day here in Iowa... the girls wanted to try and make a snow fort... I actually think this was after their first day of school back from winter break, Wednesday, 1/8/14.

They loved the fact that the snow was so hard they could stand on it ;)

January 24th weekend I believe... LeaAnn dressed herself and told all of her sisters, "let's go outside!" The older two took her up on her offer :)

We had a mess of snow days since winter break... and the week of the 18th through the 24th I spent de-cluttering and cleaning! Drawers, cabinets... the pantry! That was actually  how I started... took 2 huge boxes to Goodwill and 2 boxes downstairs, and now we have ROOM for food in the pantry :) novel concept. Chris even got in on the action that weekend, he did a great job! I still have the games to go through and the two kitchen utensil drawers..... and the basement :) But I'm going to have to keep pushing for that one.
ANYHOW... I also (finally) got a new phone this particular week and took a picture of the girls' room once I was finished... looks nice, huh? To be fair, the girls did spend time going through their stuff, and putting things away... I just put the final touches on it :)

And new rooms are so much fun to play in! :D Here they are playing camping that cold, cold weekend... dreaming of camping I should say. Chris & I count our blessings every day that the girls love & play with each other so well...

And how could I forget! Getting LeaAnn on tape saying the word, "clothes" It is one of her signature statements! (in so many ways ;)