Porter at 3 months

Porter is growing up so fast! He smiles all the time and is starting to make little cooing noises and squeals in response to us. He also loves to blow raspberries and stick out his tongue. He recently discovered his hands and is constantly staring at them or sucking on them. He is sleeping though the night now and is usually happy and easygoing as long as he's been fed. Here are some recent pictures of him and his sisters loving him to pieces!

My pretty boy, doesn't he look just like a doll?

Tummy time, which he really doesn't like

Leah sharing her blanket, she's so nice and caring

Abbie loves to hold Porter any chance she can get

My three little munchkins

Awww, kisses

Keep 'em coming

Okay, that's enough. Help me, please!

Curls, dressing up, and dancing

My girls are definitely girly! As I go through the pictures for the month, it's mostly about hair do's, dressing up, drawing hearts, and dancing. When we have managed to get out of the house, we've played in the snow, been swimming, played at indoor playplaces, and watched gymnastics. Here are some pictures of all the fun:

I put curlers in Leah's hair one morning, just for fun
After a couple hours here's what I got

Doesn't she look like Shirley Temple?

Playing dress up in their castle. Notice the little flags on top, totally Abbie's idea!

Dancing in their dresses after church



Valentine decorations Abbie made a couple days after V-day. We forgot to put up paper pink and red hearts like we usually do so Abbie made her own.

We've gotten a bunch of snow in the past few weeks and the girls ask me daily if they can go out in it. Here they are on one of the warmer days that I did let them out for a while.

We took the girls to their first ever gymnastics meet and they had a great time.

Abbie had fun drawing pictures of girls on the beam and bars

Leah had fun with the free glow sticks

We also went swimming again at an indoor waterpark for the day and had a great time. Abbie finally dared go down this little slide by herself and did it over and over the whole time we were there.

Leah had more fun pouring water out of this cup than anything else.

Porter slept through most of it and I had fun chatting with friends but it sure made me miss summertime and the warm weather. I'm so glad February is over!

Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day! I hope you all had a wonderful day with those you love!

What do you do when it's cold outside?

Play indoors a lot at places like this! We went to the Hands-On Museum a few weeks ago and the girls had a great time. Abbie loved this light table with magnetic shapes.

Leah loved the water area and played there for over an hour!

They both loved the bubbles

And huge piano (this always reminds me of the movie "Big" with Tom Hanks)

The next weekend we went and stayed at a hotel about an hour away that had a great indoor waterpark. It was warm and humid in there and it felt so good to pretend it was the middle of summer, even for just a day or two. Hope you don't mind our white pasty skin!

The girls loved being carried around in the lazy river

And "swimming"!

Porter was just happy to be there. I love his smiles!

I think this boy will love summer time at the pool. He hardly cried the whole time we were there and just was glad to hang out and watch all the action.

Who needs sleep? Apparently these two do, after a long day of fun! They crashed after getting to our hotel room and slept like logs until 8 am!

It's going to be hard to wait FOUR more months for summer to come after this weekend!