We went to the grocery store
today. We needed to go Monday but it was snowing and ucky out,
so we didn’t go. Tuesday was beautiful and sunny, but we had
playdate plans, so we didn’t make it to the store. Today we
REALLY needed to go and, of course, it was raining! But we made
the best of it. Eve wore her “new” (new last year, fit this
year) rain boots and her “new” (hand-me-down from Parrish) rain
coat. Lex wore his “new” (hand-me-down from Joshua) rain boots
and insisted on his winter coat. Eve cried when she realized we
were driving to the grocery store, not walking in the rain, but
then we splashed in every puddle we could find in the parking
lot and that made her happy.

At BJs I
bought a pack of dry-erase markers, mostly because I wanted a
few but also because I thought the kids might like them. Turns
out it was an awesome purchase!! The kids LOVE them! I try to
encourage Lex to write and draw more but he’s a bit of a
perfectionist and gets frustrated quickly when he makes
mistakes. With the dry-erase markers he just erased his
mistakes and kept going. He drew and drew and erased and drew
some more. Eve did her best to get some drawing in too. When
Eve was napping he drew a really cool picture! He even put his
name on it so I would know who drew it :)

I should have gotten a video of
him explaining the picture, but I didn’t, so I’ll do my best to
explain it instead. There are two trees with green leaves on
top, the one on the right has branches on it so you can climb
up. The blue and green things near the trees are the leaves
falling. There’s a moon (the circle) with the sky in it and the
sky all around it :) Birds in the sky and, my favorite part,
Lex’s name!

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