Parties, dirt and unicorn- March 7-14.

Georgie was invited to a party at a place called Par Tee Time.  It's a huge building full of bounce houses and a miniature golf course.

In short, it's awesome.

Caroline R, Ellie and Georgie!

We had our first warm day of the spring.  Grams, Bea and I sat outside waiting for Papa to get home from work.  Of course, Bea loves dirt, so I quickly removed all of her clothes. This kid has ruined a LOT of clothes.  We also propped her up by some landscaping because the front yard is a hill and she kept rolling down it.

Do you think these two Parsons are related?

June wrote this letter to her girl scout leader, Miss Debbie.  I texted Debbie this picture and Debbie responded with a picture of her note.  She's the best.  (And by the way, the girl scout troop did decide to go to Build-A-Bear.)

I found a major deal at the grocery store- jars of mincemeat filling for 90% off.  Brandon says he knows why they were 90% off.  I bought 8 jars.  Looks like everyone is going to miss out on this delicious mincemeat apple pie!

So Grams was in town, but I forgot to take any pictures of her.  Mostly because we'd hang out all morning and in the afternoon, she'd load up the kids and go do fun things while Bea and I napped.  This afternoon, she took the kids to the Pickens County Art Museum to see a piece of art Henry had displayed there.  Thanks for the break, Grams!

This is Bea's favorite spot in the house.  It gives her easy access to the pantry and the recycling bin.  Best toys ever.

 

My Beezy is just so cute.  Even when she's throwing food off the high chair.

Seriously.  I can't say no to this kid.

Everything about her. Ugh.

Even when she gets stuck trying to crawl over the chair.  Poor baby.

Look at this stinker.

Even fishing a pretzel out of a bin is precious.

Somehow we acquired two unicorn costumes.

Georgie makes a nice rainy day pink unicorn.

June then put on her unicorn- excuse me"alicorn"- costume and they had some fun.

June shuttles Georgie across the room and then collapses.

First week of March- March 1 to 7.

Remember when we used to braid June's hair to make it bumpy?  Now we have to do much smaller braids to get it all. 

But it is awfully cute when it dries!

Though it does show off my poor hair cutting skills.

Henry and June have been diligently practicing their piano.  June is learning to play with two hands now.  Here's Camptown Races.

Not a great picture of the fast mover, but I did want to document her wearing my favorite jammies of all time.  All four kids wore these.

Georgie's class dressed up as storybook character's for Valentine's Day.  Georgie dressed up as a little girl from a valentine's book, who incidentally wore a plain purple dress.  Not as exciting as a princess, but Georgie seems pretty happy to be on theme.

I boiled the perfect egg.  This was a really big deal for me.  So naturally, it has to be on the blog.

  

Georgie wanted to build a "puzzle floor"- where you build so many puzzles to covers the whole floor.  But how do you do that when you have a pesky little sister who can crawl and get into everything and demands to be close to you at all times?  Georgie had the best idea.  And it worked, except when Beatrice could get close enough to pull Georgie's pigtails.

This is the life, mom.

I love this sweet, enthusiastic girl who is always so pumped for the opportunity to check the mail.

The kids have been busy turning over the garden for me.  And a moist spring means our normally rock hard soil is cute soft.  During their imaginative free play this week, the girls pretended they were slaves digging a grave for poor, dead Beatrice. Maybe we should let them have more screen time.

Grams came into town for the week.  Of course the first place we visited was the Village Baker in Pendleton.

This year, I volunteered to run the Elementary school's International Festival.  It's always very popular and I don't think I ruined it for too many people.

I always want the kids to participate in the Parade of Nations.  This year Georgie wore and Indian shirt and a French hat.  She really is a melting pot.

I didn't get many pictures as the halls with all the food were packed!  But I did get a shot of the African drumming circle.  

June is 7!- February 28.

Our sweet, spunky, and sometimes grumpy June is 7!

We had special birthday pancakes.

And June decorated her own cake.

June wanted to have a sleepover for her birthday.  And she didn't want it to be a big party.  she said she only wanted 3 friends- Maddie, Laurel, and Georgie.  Isn't that sweet?

And I promise that June and Maddie are wearing clothes.  It's the strapless dresses they bought at the beach.

Beatrice didn't get invited tot he tea party.  So she ate a cord instead.  

Aren't I the cutest in my little sweater vest?

Dad!  Dad!  Dad!  Dad!  Dad!

Laurel is an only child, but she gets to experience the thrill of having a big family regularly at our house.  

I think sometimes Bea wishes she was an only child too.  

More snow- February 24-27.

There were tears in the Turner house.  And not because of the upcoming snow storm that was predicted to drop blizzard levels of snow!  (They always predict at least 10 inches and we always get one.)

No, Georgie was crying because this week she painted hard boiled aggs with watercolors for Easter.  And then I had the nerve to eat one.  Meanest mom ever.

When we did get our 1 (maybe 1.5) inches of snow, schools were cancelled for 4 days and mom headed out to find someone to play with.  Maddie was out trying to make the world's biggest snowball.  Which isn't easy with only 1 inch of snow.  

John and Christopher jumped in to help.  They honestly pushed this thing around half the neighborhood.  

It was good fun until we realized they'd pushed it through dog poop and it was all over Maddie's coat.  Gross.

I'm pretty sure this picture was from the last snow storm, when we tried to go sledding with a thin layer of ice.  (You take what you can get down here.)  But it's pretty cute, so I'll put it in here so it makes it on the blog.

After the kids tired of snow, they came in to play minecraft.  I was especially pleased because they incorporated the Princess Bride and Lord of the Rings into their world.

I tried to do some cleaning, but contemplated the cost of accidentally vacuuming up legos and gave up.

I'm not sure what Beez was crying about, but it does seem very heartbreaking.  Probably it had to do with being strapped into a van that wasn't moving yet.  Beatrice does not care for idling.

To make up for that sad picture, here's a happy video of playing with dad.

And a cute picture of June's new short hair.

Georgie's hair is getting long.  Aunt Molly and Uncle Michael sent down a rainbow hair extension for June's birthday.  Georgie let me braid it into her hair and I think it looks awesome!

Selfies with my sweet Georgie.

I missed posting this viedo of Beatrice from the end of January.  But you don't want to miss this big belly and cute spits.