Bed head

This may be Millie's greatest bead head ever

The trick seems to be puking in the middle of the night, rolling over, and going right back to sleep. 

Dance

That girl in the v-neck with the graceful arms.  She's mine. Hard to believe that my no graceful self gave rise to that, but we're running with it.

And no, she is not suddenly a tiny person, she is just a 5-year old in a class of 8 year-olds 

Winter in NY when you want it to be spring

For some reason during the third week of Feb it seemed like everyone I know was in Hawaii. We were not. We were here, it was a little gloomy and cold.

But not at the Botanical Garden.

There were orchids there. Oh, so many orchids and for just a minute we felt summer. 

(Do you see that little hand resting on his dad's knee? I mean right?)

Photo dump

I've had pics and stories ready to post for weeks. They're all just coming at once. 

Matching hair day

Valentine's Day.  (Yes we practice King Fu on Valentine's. Don't you?) That last pic is when I attempted to make chocolate covered cinnamon bears. I know it sounds weird, but they are amazingly delicious. I almost had them right. Next year.

My brother and his family came to visit and we had such a lovely time. We took them to Washington Square Park on a Saturday which is a guaranteed good time.

We also forced them to play 1 million rounds of Uno.

100th day of school party. 

And finally, two artists and the cutest pig tails you have ever seen

YouTube

Did you know the highest YouTube earner in the world is a woman with perfectly manicured nails who opens kids toys and plays with them?  You never see her face or body, just her hands. There are hundreds of people who review toys. Some of them do it with their kids, but most of them are adults who know the name of every Hotwheels car.  

You might be thinking, what is the target audience? Who on earth would watch that?

Right there. That's it. 

How we watch the Super Bowl

This is the selfie I took at 10:00 last night. See that smiling, giggly baby?  We have church right during nap time and it basically messes up everything. 

I feel good about the game. I'm firmly on team Beyoncé, so luckily my team always wins. 

Road Trip

Saturday afternoon we took a road trip to Ikea. Now, ikea is only 37 minutes from my house so some of you may be questioning the term "road trip" but trust me, by minute 10  the parents were questioning our decision to go at all, and by minute 27 we were counting down Siri's estimated minutes until arrival. The kids were anxiously awaiting Siri estimating the same number of minutes as their age. At 5 minutes (Claire's age) until arrival they erupted into chanting "5,5,5,5" which lasted until it switched to 4. At 3 minutes (Noah's age) until arrival the chant was repeated. At 1 (Millie's age) they decided that instead of chanting "1" they would just say "da da" over and over, because Millie can't say 1 but she can say "da da."  All three of them chanted for all of minute 37. It was the best minute of the whole trip.

Here is Millie climbing the stairs during dance class. I call this her "Drew Carey" dress because I swear she looks just like Mimi in it.