March 3rd, and no your eyes are not deceiving you. This isn’t Ian, this is Brandon’s son Max. I was helping them move, we stopped to eat, he got a really big sundae, and, well, it was a cute picture.

March 5th, Nina smiles a nice one at me. See this image larger.

I think she started singing here, was she in time out? See this image larger.

*Hey God, it’s me, Nina!*

The kids going nuts with markers and whatnot.

March 10th, we went to Ikea and Nina started using an abacus as we shopped. With the speed at which she seems to pick stuff up, I almost wouldn’t be surprised if she figured this thing out.

Nina wandering around Grampa Dave and Gramma Marcia’s – she was pointing out a small crystal bunny in the cabinet. We went there to wish Grampa Dave a happy birthday! (We didn’t have an opportunity to take too many photos… I did get one nice video, though, which I’ll share shortly.)

March 12th, at Gramma Marcia and Grampa Dave’s, the kids got these cool cardboard houses! The best part about them is that they fold away and pretty much disappear. I want to underline that again… these very large toys disappear. That’s awesome, because we’re pretty much getting overrun by toys. Disappear is good.

Also on March 12th, I got out the clippers. Here’s the “before” picture…

And here’s the “after!”

He was such a trooper. I even nicked his ear and caused it to bleed, and he was sad, and cried, but got over it very quickly. I expected him to then hate his own reflection, because that seems to be the way of things… but he loved it!

See? (He took an impromptu bath… wow cutting off that much hair really generates a lot of hair!!)

This adorable table and chair set was only 20 bucks at Ikea. Since we got it, it has seen daily usage.

Ian said this ball of tape with more tape inside of it looked like when I tried to hide a pea in his bread. (There was a time when we were trying to force Ian to eat some vegetables, but he only had to eat ONE pea, for example. So I helped him by hiding it. Long story. He still doesn’t drink milk at home, and frankly his nit-picky eating is probably the biggest issue we have with the raising of the kids currently.)

Ian made a shadow on the bathroom floor and said it was just like his spaceship toy. (Millennium Falcon.)