Farris family blog: February 2016

February is a shorter month anyways, but this one sure did fly by! I started my mom's group up this month, along with my Wednesday night bible study girls and that has been a fun change of pace around here. It has kept me busy, that is for sure.

This has to go down as our warmest February ever and I sure did love every.minute of it!! It has been so warm this winter, which I think also in turn has kept our kiddos so much healthier this year. So very thankful for that. Last week Bret's parents and his aunts all came in to help with the kiddos while we were at seminar. We had such a great time at seminar, and the kiddos seemed to have a blast playing soccer with Pops and enjoying all their new fun Easter toys and candy from Grams. So thankful for their willingness to always us help with the kiddos.

We have had random birthday parties throughout this month and took some time last weekend to take the kids to the Dinosaur park. They sure did love that and had a great time doing the scavenger hunt looking for all the dinosaurs, playing in the sand with the fossils and they have a playground at the end that you can play on. It made for a fun day while daddy was working!

We went to the children's museum at the beginning of the month with friends and then after got Tuck a haircut. His shaggy mess was about due for one. He has looked more and more like a four year old this past month with his "yes m'am's" and being so sweet to his sister and helping her more like Carter does so often. Tuck learned how to swing himself this past month and he is constantly out in the backyard swinging now. He smiles so big every.single.time he is swinging out there. He also has been working so hard to finally get down the monkey bars. He is not there yet, but he will be soon. Getting so big! He tells us all the time he is "almost five." Even though he just turned four. I love how kids always say that right after their birthday.

Rylie. Oh Rylie. She is about the sweetest thing you've ever seen and also the biggest mess you have ever seen. The other day she emptied my lotion into her hair and all over herself everywhere. She constantly will just pull every single thing out of drawers. Recently it has been ziplock bags, pots and pans, crayons and envelops...on and paper clips too. Every time she finds a pen she first colors on her belly and then proceeds to color on anything and everything that is not paper. When kids are two their mantra is "make mess" over and over and over. Rylie is kinda over all her shorter words now like "wawa" she just says water now. I am always blown away by what comes out of her mouth. The other day she said "Is that salsa mommy?" Is it spicy? Really? It just will come out of nowhere. She is counting her numbers now and she is pretty much a little mom right behind me all day yelling the boys names when I do and saying "Come on boys." She did climb out of her crib this week, so we took out the board and put the mattress on the floor like we did for Tuck. Hopefully that will keep her in there a while longer.

Carter is reading on the highest level in his class. We are SO proud of him for that. I went to his school for his Valentine's party this month. I love that I get to go up there for those types of things. He is learning the value of working for things that he wants to buy. This week he asked us if he could mow the lawn because he wanted money for the book fair. So he did. He mowed the yard and did extra chores to earn money. It is so fun to see that in him. Next week he will be six. <crazy> He is having his buddy Gibson come spend the night with him tomorrow night and then we will probably have a family day with him on Sunday. Can't wait to celebrate Carter man.

We also went to Houston this month to see our friend Jordan and Kristen's new baby. That was a lot of fun to see their new son. We went to Porter's basketball games and our kids loved getting to see that. Made me excited that one day soon we will get to do those kind of things! We got to see Ana and Titus too and get to hang out with them. It was a pretty short quick trip, but I am thankful we live so close to be able to do things like that.

It is almost spring break and we are going to head down to Friendswood so the kids can meet my sister's new baby girl. My mom is also going to take the kids to the rodeo while Bret and I go to a wedding. So lots of fun things coming up in the next few weeks. Can't believe it is already March!