March!
The month started off like this! Actually, I believe this was the last day of February, but close enough. I was able to observe my first two births. One was on Saturday morning at about 4:20 am, and the other was Sunday night at about 10:30 p.m. Both families are friends from church, the Stricklans and the Dethloffs, and both births were incredibly beautiful and amazing. I'm so grateful and honored they let me be a tiny part of their births.
In between those exciting introductions to life, I got set apart as the Primary President in our ward. It suddenly felt like I was thrown out a window into a tornado. There was an event that took place an hour before I was set apart that took two weeks to resolve. It was an all encompassing, extremely time consuming, very emotionally draining way to begin. Then the rest of the month has been spent putting on a Great to be Eight fireside, a Service Easter activity, our first of regular teacher trainings, and have started streamlining teacher orientation. Oh and then there's callings. We have at least 20 families moving from the ward around the time of graduation at the U of M, and have been working with that. Anyway fortunately I have an amazing presidency, any one of which would probably be a much better president than myself.
Anyway, let's take a break from my craziness to take in some happy images.
The month also started off with some crazy ice.
Anthony took a trip to St. George, UT to see one of his best friends, Dave Sutherland, get married. Sounds like he had a blast, the wedding was beautiful...and apparently it's t-shirt weather there.
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Anthony with Grandpa Arave
Back at home, Ira was hoping for Spring
Testing out a new board game
Eliot's drawing of Adam for a family home evening about the creation.
Not bad for a 2 year old, eh?
Ira's FHE contribution: An eagle, cheetah, and lion.
The snow cave caved in. But the boys had so much fun in their "snow pit," they asked to have a few picnics in it.
Pretending it's summer
St. Patrick's Day. We just love it around here.
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The rest of life
Anthony's been doing well with his new job at GE as project manager. He says it's a "change of pace," meaning it's more demanding. He's handling it like a champ, and still making time to start gardening.
Ira has been really into Ninjas lately, which makes for some unwanted (by me) rough-housing. He's just decided he doesn't want to keep taking piano lessons, but doesn't mind continueing to play piano with Anthony and me. So we're still slowly working through the workbook. I think he mostly wanted to stop because his teacher weaned him off of post-lesson tickle battles, which was the part Ira looked forward to most.
Eliot is making a lot of progress with his language. Tonight he told me, "Me big boy now. Me three now!" (Birthday update next post.) We're still working on grammar obviously, but having a string of words this long where he can articulate an idea in his head is pretty thrilling and cute. Also, over the past week or two he's finally figured out the whole potty training bit that has to do with solid waste. He's only wearing night time diapers now. Happiness! We've also had a few doctor's visits with him. Looks like he has a hernia, so we have an operation scheduled for him in late May. He doesn't complain about it very much, so hopefully that's a good sign.
As for me, besides the whole primary whirlwind, things are pretty normal. I got Ira registered for kindergarten next year, and have been busy with some extra birth-class stuff I've had to do this month, subbing for other parents at the preschool etc. I feel like I'm getting really large as I'm wrapping up the 2nd trimester. Last appointment, the baby was transverse, so everyone pray that he'll (or she'll) get into a nice anterior vertex position.
Happy April everyone!
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