Smiles & Giggles

The last 2 weeks have flown by but I'm excited for March and a much slimmer schedule! The majority of the team finished up their season a week ago with amazing swims! We still have 2 girls with chances for Nationals. One is a swimmer who unfortunately is swimming the one stroke that is talent full in Division 3 this year and one diver who won both the 1-Meter and 3-Meter events at Conference. We'll find out this week if they make it into Nationals and if they do we'll be making plans for a trip to Tennessee at the end of March.

To reward myself for a long month filled with busy work days and long weekends of rental meets I took a few days off this week and spent 7+ hours for two days at Archiver's with my mom. I'm happy to announce that Robert and Izzy's scrapbooks are caught up and that our family album is just 2 pages short of being current. I also was able to finish both of the scrapbooks for my senior swimmers this weekend while working a rental meet. So 5 scrapbooks in 5 days isn't too shabby! Of course now as the new week is coming closer I'm thinking a few more days off would be wonderful but unfortunately that will have to wait.

Eric's real estate is picking up with the thought of Spring getting closer so it is a good time for my hours to be easing up. We're hoping to find a time later this month or in early April to sneak away for some children free time but haven't made any definite plans yet.

Robert continues to get into anything and everything! His curiosity is at an all time high but luckily one of the things he's becoming more curious about is the potty! So slowly we're introducing it but won't rush anything...no matter how tempting it is to only have 1 child in diapers. He is still a great big brother and loves to "help" with any of Izzy's needs.

Izzy is growing up way too quickly, well for my liking anyway! She is a lot more talkative and giggly now which always puts a smile on our faces. She is definitely a daddy's girl and whenever I'm holding/playing with her she's always trying to find daddy. Iz is also a big fan of Robert and her latest trick is to try and grab his face whenever she is near. Luckily Robert's interpretting this as tickling and it usually results in lots of giggles from both kids. She's also getting quite good at moving around the house. She can scoot on her back and tummy around the house and I have a feeling that as soon as she learns to tuck her knees up she'll catch on to crawling pretty quick.

This week brings lots of phone calls for Eric to make, meetings and the start of summer swim registration at work for me, and more bonding time between brother and sister. Oh and our 4th anniversary also falls in there somewhere! Have a good week everyone!

Izzy is slowly getting the hang of her walker

but until she fully grasps it Robert loves

playing train and helps take her on a tour!

Some videos of our little giggler!