The Crowl Family Adventures: February

The crazy month of February arrived! The month of never ending celebrating!

Once again i'll let my one second a day video do most of the month review, and I'll fill in a few details that didn't make the cut.

https://youtu.be/77QeXatNjHY

- Maddie and Harper are still loving their ballet class with Miss Osiris. I found out she is an NAU alum, so of course she is fabulous :) We have some time to kill after we drop off Colter at school, so we usually head to the play gym. Levi is starting to enjoy playing on the toys, and Maddie and Harper run wild riding bikes, throwing hula hoops around, tumbling, etc.
- I took the kids to Edmonds after school one day because the weather was incredible. Levi loved throwing rocks and trying to crawl towards the water, and the other two kids were so content digging and collecting.
- We had yet another snow storm!
- Harper had a minnie birthday party
- We watched the super bowl over at Jessie's and rocked out to Katy Perry
- aaaaan more snow. Seriously! We had more snow days this year than I can remember in almost all of our years of living in Washington.
- Trader Joe's shoppers. I don't take all three kids shopping by myself very often, but honestly, they have become mostly helpful. I remember dreading taking just Colter shopping and now it's pretty enjoyable, unless it's at a place like Target or Fred Meyer where they become obsessed with getting toy.
- Levi seems to really enjoy music and sings along in the sweetest little voice!
- Levi doesn't mess with the kids toys too much, but occasionally we have to build a giant barricade to keep precious things safe.
- Levi loves cruising in his car. Maddie loves speeding down the sidewalk on our street, so one time I let go of Levi to get him going fast and I about died laughing because he looked so hilarious.
- Maddie had a sweet ballet birthday party. I asked around and found a girl in high school who is a friends babysitter that is a dancer. She came and led the girls in some games and dances. The girls had such a fun time.
- The sun came out and we went down to Edmonds to eat dinner outside and play at the sand pit at Anthony's.
- Another beautiful and cold day in Edmonds with friends.
- Valentines day with my love. We did our at home date box which was a relaxation spa. Perfect!
- Mary and Greg got Colter and Maddie craft/experiment boxes for their birthday. The kids have LOVED them! They look forward to them every month, and every time they have been so quality.
- My sweet girl turned 4. She requested m&m pancakes, had a special day at school, had a spaghetti dinner. We also took her to build a bear, where she stuffed all her pinkies in her new pink bear LuLu. She also rode on a motorized stuffed animal and got a trip to the candy store. I'd say it was a good day!
- Adventures with Grandpa
- Ben and I roadtripped it up to Bellingham to go out to dinner with Ryan and Jayna for their combined 80th birthday.
- Mary and Greg were looking at a boat in Ballard, so the kids and I explored the marina and found this cool fountain. I want to come back in the summer!
- Ben and his parents took the big kids to the snow for the day, so Levi and I had fun at a little gym open house.
- Maddie does not like to go to bed with wet hair, so she has us blow dry her hair after every bath. Her hair is seriously gorgeous! Ben does the best job.
- Greg had a birthday while they were in town .. the big 65!
- Colter requested pudding cups with chocolate lego minifigures in them. They were a big hit with his class.
- For Colter's birthday, we decided to keep things low key and take him and James to the lego store to each pick out a lego set to build. We had family over to have a pizza dinner and cake, but Colter stayed upstairs all night building. Ha! IT was a perfect celebration
- Colter turned 6! I can't believe it! We had a wonderful day celebrating.
- Levi loves the hot potato game. He really rocks out!
- Fort building adventures

Other things that didn't make the video and other pictures.

More pictures from our snow day. Everything looks so beautiful blanketed with snow!

The kids think it is super fun to play construction workers and take apart Maddie's bed. When I'm really tired, I usually let them do it even though it's such a pain to put back together.

Ben went into Colter's class and did several science experiments. The biggest hit was the elephant toothpaste, which shot a thick stream of foam out of a water bottle.