Cleaning Time

Lyric spent the morning cleaning out her snail cages.  She has one cage with adults and one with babies.  Some of her babies were ready to move to the adult cage.  These snails have been the best pet!  So easy!

Cuddle Bugs

I walked into the living room to find this this morning.  Coda had a tight grip on Lyric and wouldn't let go.

Little Mommy

Tonight Jenny from The Jamboree offered to watch the kiddos so I could go and watch Devon play.  They had a great time, except Coda was sleepy and didn't want to go to sleep for Jenny.  Lyric rocked her for a couple of hours until we got back.  I think Coda was super tired because we had had a long day at clinic and then she went to Jenny's, so this morning at 4:00 she woke up screaming!  She's has never done this before and I didn't really know what to do.  I tried the boob, rocking, standing, Devon...nothing worked!  It happened to be Lyric's turn to sleep with Coda and I, so she was in the bed with us.  Coda pushed me away and crawled over to Lyric.  I'm not sure why, but all she wanted was her big sister!

Lyric held her until she fell asleep around 5:30.  Such a lucky baby to have big sisters who love her so much!

Silly Little Lyric

When I uploaded the pictures from my phone I found these...

Whoever invented the forward facing camera on the phone was a pretty smart cookie!  Good times can be had with it;-)

Reading to the Elderly

Lyric and I have a habit of reading while I fold laundry.  Today, Lyric was pretending Coda was her daughter.  I had a load of laundry that needed folded, so I asked if she wanted to read while I folded clothes. She looked at Coda and said, "Come on honey, we have to go read to the elderly."  Thanks a lot Lyr:-/ 

Science Talk

Tonight while we were eating Story asked how Coda is a girl. Like how was she born a girl and not a boy. I said it was in her chromosomes.  You know, genetics.  Like she has blue eyes because it's in her genes. Or she has fat cheeks instead of skinny ones because its in her genes. I said she is a girl because she has... I looked at Devon because I couldn't remember XY or XX...

Lyric said, "A vulva."

My Big Helper

Today I was getting the dishes ready to wash.  I had to stop what I was doing to go and feed Coda.  While I was gone My Sweet Lyric washed them all for me!

 She's growing up!

A Date with Lyric

Today Lyric and I had a date.

 She chose to go to lunch at IHOP.

 Then we went swimsuit shopping.  She just got a new swimsuit not long ago, but its a little tight.  She's growing like a weed:-)

Fun on Lyric's Birthday!

Today, Lyric wanted to go to Circus World for her birthday.  We have never been, but it sounded like so much  fun we decided to give it a try.

I got this shot of the girls this morning before we left.  Cadence decided her breakfast taco needed to be in the picture too:-)

  

Lyric wanted to bowl first.

 

 Cadence and Story wanted to go see the rest of what Circus World had to offer, so Daddy and Lyric finished their games to speed things up.

We hit the bumper cars next.  (I say we, but I just played photographer all day.  Circus World doesn't offer much for pregnant women:-/)

 After the bumper cars, they tried Laser Tag.  It was the girls first time.  They liked it, but were a little disappointed the boys won:-(  

We tried skating after laser tag.  They have skated before, but they still need some support.

Lyric and Story pretty much stayed on the walls.

 Cadence held mine or Devon's hands.  She liked letting herself go while we held her up.  I was afraid my pregnant self was going to fall on top of her!

 They had a good time!

 Story and Cadence waited a really long time to jump on the trampolines.  Daddy and Lyric rode the bumper cars over and over again while they waited on them.

 Story really wanted to do a flip!  It didn't happen this time, but maybe next time.

We played a few games before heading to the park for a picnic.  We had our veggie sandwiches and then it was time for gifts.

She opened Story's first.  A new Monopoly Wii game.

 She opened mine next.  A dinosaur digging kit.

 Then Cadence's gift.  She sewed Lyric a blanket to match the pillow she sewed her for Christmas.

 Last came Daddy's gift.  Two of her favorite things- nutritional yeast and Bragg's Liquid Aminos.

We have been out of these for awhile, so she was pretty excited when she opened them.

 Daddy also got her a new box of crayons and a Creepover chapter book that she has been wanting because the library doesn't have it.

 Cake time!

 We set the camera on the picnic table to try and get a family picture:-)

Story Bell was complaining about the sun, so she put her hands up in the first one:-(

 

Devon slid down when he was trying to get seated before the camera snapped in this one, so I was cracking up!

 Lyric had a great birthday and we all had lots of fun!  We ended the night watching Despicable Me, one of her favorite movies.