End of February-Father/Son Campout

First molar to go--how?? 

I put on makeup, it had to be documented haha.

One of my little piano students was picked up late, so she just joined right in at the table. She's so cute.

Tried a new hairstyle. Loved it. Have not been able to recreate it since haha.

Happy Anniversary!

The playgroup was meeting on a no-school Monday or Friday to go to a manatee lagoon. I was kind of thinking we wouldn't go because it would be hard to wrangle Russ and then it was cold and I kind of wanted to go to a library event to get free bike helmets. Just as I was deciding to do the library for sure, my friend Lindsey Harper called me up and said she was headed to the manatee lagoon but running late, and was it even worth it to go? She was passing my exit--so she took it instead, we went to the library together, and then our kids played on our playground the entire. day. Nonstop play. The sun felt glorious. I could talk to Lindsey for days. Just the sort of a day a no-school day should be. Heaven.

The girls are always asking me to do instagram hairstyles. I rarely agree to, but when I do, it sure is cute!

Will's getting ginormously tall and he lost his jacket (and at that point needed it for 1.3 more days in Florida, but he was having a hard time about it) so I took him to a knock-off store by our house and he got new tennis shoes, a new jacket, and he was pleased as punch. Having the one-on-one date with mom was super special too.

Sterling worked SO HARD to swing being there for the father/son campout. I ended up driving Will and meeting Sterling there because it was closer to the hospital and that way they had more time there. And Will was THRILLED. SO THRILLED. Things like this are just what makes the world go round. He was unbelievably chatty- on and on and on-about every single minute detail that had happened in the one singular night he'd been out with dad. My heart just loves him.

My birthday date-Orlando-Lake Worth Chalk Art Festival

Sterling worked nonstop from the end of December until well into February, so by mid-Feb the weeks felt LONG and HARD. Luckily for us--he had a random week off! We get to put in what we'd like to have off, but then it's all just a puzzle that gets put together on whether you get your first choices or not. In order to have Christmas off with the kids--by default we had a week off in February (I wanted Spring Break, but man this ended up being so perfect! I couldn't even be sad about it!). Starting on my birthday, Sterling was free! So we headed to this little cafe literally ON THE OCEAN and ate some of the best food of my life. It was amazing. Everyone who visits from now on needs to go to Dune Deck Cafe with us! 

We ate right under that white and blue striped canopy.

Then we found this market that we had not known about before-Rorabeck's-because our neighbor had recommended it recently. IT IS AMAZING! Produce is SO EXPENSIVE down here and SO UNAVAILABLE! Not even the more expensive supermarkets (Publix) have great produce. This produce is amazing and incredibly cheap. It was like finding a little gold mine! Plus, the mangoes were on and DELICIOUS. So many mangoes. They make my tongue numb but it is SOOOOO worth it.

Angel food cake.

 During his one week off I had planned one night away in Orlando, and paid to swim in their incredible water park the next day. We were so excited. Unfortunately, the weather went from 85 degrees to 65 degrees in Delray, and when we got to Orlando it was raining and 50 degrees. They didn't even open the water park. So basically we drove to stay at a hotel that we had to check out of by 10am. That being said, it was still a MIGHTY fine time. The kids were ecstatic. It was just a little hard not being able to have what we had planned. BUT next time!

 The following Saturday there was a street chalk art festival in Lake Worth (about twenty minutes north of us---where Sterling's hospital is). It was so much more fun than even I anticipated. They had jugglers wandering around and SO MUCH GOOD FOOD (I'm assuming. We actually didn't get anything but the smells were amazing and we know creole food trucks...it was delicious I'm sure.) and so many good smells and the singer was FANTASTIC. The kids had the time of their life just dancing in the field and Sterling and I couldn't get over her talent.

The clouds were for real like that. It was one of those crazy wild Florida days where it's raining in broad sunshine. Always the weirdest.

There was a little sign at the bottom telling you to lay down and take a picture (most said stay off) and the kids were all over that!

Rainbow!