Gosh darn it - WHERE IS SPRING???

I know, I know.... February has only just begun and here I am complaining about the weather in New England. But, do any of you know how hard it is to pack three little ones up and take them out to play in what feels like sub-zero temperatures? Or the price of not taking them out at all only to have them pig-piled in my living room fighting over some random McDonald's toy from 5 years ago? So, yes, I am a little cranky that the weather is a little chilly (or just down right FREEZING!). I am even more cranky that the cold weather makes my kids cranky, whiney, clingy, and absolutely nasty to each other.... ahh, the joys of mommy-hood in the winter!

In the mean time, we are gearing up for Valentine's day, and Cassie has been enjoying some fun card making craft activities (hell, anything that involves scissors and glue sticks will keep her occupied for hours), and although the twins would like to join in and help out, we have found that all they really want to do is eat the glue stick and write on each other with the markers.

Other than craft activities, we basically spend the remainder of the day peeling the twins off of one another, be it from hitting, pulling, tugging, pushing, hair pulling, screaming, and any other physical motion that allows someone to take a toy from someone else. We really are surprised at how physical the two of them are and hope that it is something that will tone itself down as they increase in their language skills (to at least scream what they want rather than just some high pitched screech) or until one of them realizes the power of biting (seriously, thank GOODNESS neither of them has figured out or used biting during the heat of an argument).

So .... we will continue to hope that the warmer weather moves in sooner than later, and that I can find duplicates of some of the toys that we have here to mellow out the fighting! In the mean time, we hope that everyone is staying VERY warm!!!

From jan 2010

From jan 2010

From jan 2010