ole schnikees: 2018

Tova: finally moved her right hand/arm when up on all 4s so technically crawled for the first time although she doesn't go forward more then that one arm/leg :) she's good at going in circles and can eventually get to a toy she wants that's out of reach, she's good at eating puffs now and gets about half of them in her mouth on the first attempt, except for at the cabin she's been waking every 2-3 hours at night working on those top 2 teeth i'm pretty sure, sat in a cart for the first time, sat in a restaurant high chair for the first time,

Tuesday was rainy all day; just the usual school and work. Wednesday was supposed to be Al's day off but he worked 130p-9p doing protection at the airport for the vice president and then a sergeant's meeting. :( After a week of Tova waking up crying every 2-3 hours at night and being cranky (teething) I was not happy about him having to work on his day off. but it was pretty nice most of the afternoon Wednesday and tova & I even got for a walk before picking up trevor from school.

Thursday Al had off; I spent the morning cleaning, packing, showered and ran to the grocery store. then at 230p I got to go to trevor's school to spend some time with him for their first stay & play. there was a short parent's meeting then we got to go to the classroom for a bit. but first I completed my volunteer paperwork and got the tour needed so that I can volunteer with trevor's class, so I got to the classroom later than the other parents. when I got there, trevor was on his teacher's lap and she was hugging him, apparently he was sad that his mom wasn't there when there were other mom's there. :( but he was SO happy to see me and showed me around his room and all his friends! we played for a little bit, had snack, then we all got to go outside for the big truck show where we got to walk around looking at and sitting in big trucks: firetruck, semi truck, moving truck, snow plow, chines, tow truck, etc. it was fun but SO SO cold! in the 30s and windy. I was hoping Al and Tova could have come but because it was so cold and tova wasn't feeling well due to teeth, they stayed home. hopefully they can come to the next one. then we came home, T and Al played outside while Al grilled, and I packed some more and played with tova.

Al worked Friday-sunday. Friday morning the kids and I packed up and drove to mom's house where we added her stuff to our car, got Tova a nap in the crib then fed her, ate lunch quick and headed out to uncle jimmy's cabin. it was a good ride up, we didn't have to stop much and made good time. there was still some snow on the ground from the day before so trevor played with that first thing when we got there. we had stopped at the grocery store in park rapids for supper so we ate that and played until maren, nick and the girls got there about 8. then bed time. unbeknownst to me, the heating vent in tova and my room was closed so we froze Friday night. I ended up pulling tova in bed with me so I could cover her up and she did great, but I didn't get much sleep (worried about her.)

Saturday morning was breakfast, get dressed then pull in the docks. mom watched the kids inside while we did that, then it was naptime for the babies (Etta and Tova.) we did lunch then we took the kids on a walk down the long driveway/road even though it was chilly and windy. then supper, playing, a bath for Trevor, Tula & Etta, and bedtime. we slept better that night cuz uncle jimmy opened our vent. :)

sunday morning, I made breakfast, let Tova get one nap in since she doesn't sleep much in the car, got everything packed up, fed tova and we headed out. once we got to mom's we played with unc-o for a bit, then drove home. it snowed at home sunday morning so there was some snow in our backyard when we got home.