Georgie and Bea- March 24.

Georgie's class made easter cards for us.  This is hilarious.

And inside the card was a picture of Georgie holding a baby duck.She really is a pretty little girl.  Lucky for us, they took the picture on a day when I actually did her hair.

Usually it's more in her face, like this. I don't mind her hair when she brings me little flower bouquets though.

4 is really looking good on Georgie.  She's just the sweetest, kindest thing.  When I accidentally knocked over a box of office supplies, she picked them up and sorted them out for me.  I want to keep Georgie this age forever. 

Except for the night she came downstairs at 11pm with a loose tooth and a doll with its arms snapped in half.  I don't know if we'll ever figure out how that happened.

June and Georgie are getting along wonderfully too.  It's so nice to have a playmate in your house.

Now on to sweet Bea.  She still sleeps a lot and usually has to be woken up to drive somewhere.  Poor kid.

She's pulling herself up to standing.  And she thinks it's hilarious when June gets in her crib.

Her favorite activity is crawling in the pantry to find an onion.  When she finds one, she carries it around with her all over the house.  I spend the day collecting them and putting them back.  She really likes it when she finds an onion that's sprouted.  It's got its own handle.

Bea loves her friend Tia.  Except for when Tia hugs her a little too hard.

Odyssey of the Mind and Charleston- March 20-22.

The Turners got a little vacation!

We traveled down to Charleston for the weekend.

It was such a lovely evening that we decided to visit Riverfront Park.

And the girls insisted I take their pictures in front of everything.

 Georgie is seriously cute in this one.

Check out the little lizard we found!

 Brandon and Henry in matching grimaces.

This is when I decided it was definitely time to put this dress away.

Henry contemplates his weird sisters.

And the kids all play together without fighting.  It does happen sometimes.

Here's the real reason we came to Charleston- Henry's Odyssey of the Mind tournament.

These guys put in some serious work for months.  In the end they were meeting for about 10 hours a week.

You can tell Henry was excited because he actually gave me a genuine smile.

Here's the final product.  They had to build a balsa wood structure that held 4 marbles that had to be released one at a time.  And here's the kicker- the whole thing couldn't weigh more than 18 grams.  That's less than a marble!  Then they stack a bunch of weight on the structure until it breaks. I think they made it to over 100 pounds before it broke.

State champs! 

In fairness, they were the only team in their age division, but they didn't know that.  And I'm pretty sure they would have beat anyone else out there.  Way to go, guys!

 

The competition took all day and didn't offer much for the little kids, so we went back to the hotel to play in the pool.  That's our friend Townes with us.  His brother Jasper is on the team with Henry.

On Sunday, we ventured into Charleston.  

The weather was pretty crummy, but we got out at Battery Park to try to catch a glimpse of Fort Sumter.

You can see some of the famous Rainbow Houses behind Henry.

Georgie, posing for more pictures.  Cute as a button.

I can't remember what this monument is for, but it had stones from many different states.  The kids are each standing on their state's stone.

We topped it off with some awesome pizza.  And watched the national arm wrestling competition- which featured a guy I went to high school with.  I'm not even kidding.

While we were down in Charleston with the Odyssey of the Mind team, Henry's Lego Robotics team was in Columbia at the state competition.

They won the Innovative Solutions Award.  They came up with the idea of making a Minecraft mod to teach kids about geology.