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Thanks to Breuggers for the 3 free bagels that were our lunch. Made our day!

Meg at 10(ish) months:

still has the funny leg-dragging crawl

stands alone for a few seconds before carefully plopping herself down

for some reason loves to laugh in the car (usually on the way to church, and at nothing we can figure out)

plays peek-a-boo incessantly

lights up when Zach says goodnight to her

reaches for Dad (and falls asleep with him sometimes!)

loves watches, remote controls, earrings, glasses, iphones, gloves, shoes, and anything of Carter's that he doesn't want her to have

Loves clapping to "if you're happy and you know it" 

Almost always falls asleep wedged into the corner of her pack n play with her little pink bunny

Yanks bows out of her hair almost immediately (and consequently has hair in her eyes most of the time!  This bothers me much more than it bothers her.)

On the market, that is.  We've all (even the kids) started talking real-estate lingo around here.  And it's brought forth a wave of nostalgia for most of us (except Nate who is just ready to move on!)  
Emma and Carter must have drawn/painted 10 pictures of the house the other day – all labeled on the back with Rochester, MN 55901 "So we don't forget, Mom."  (The nostalgia is tempered by the desire to quit spot cleaning and hauling the pack n play to the car on a daily basis and to leave things on the counter when we leave the house and to eat our pb&j at home instead of in the car or at Sam's club.)

Things I don’t want to forget….

Emma, while making her crayon valentine hearts with a card that says “you color my world with love”, says, “I am giving this red one to Zach. Zach colors my world with love. He really does.”

Carter, when asked by Nate if he’d been good that day, replied, “Dad, I’ve been as nice as a sweet angry bird!”. He has also been overheard praying for “Emma not to be a mean angry bird”.

Had to make a snowman before our snow melted… we haven't had much this winter and it keeps melting right after we get it!  Carter and I spent our "half an hour playtime" making a snowman with the Frosty kit he got for Christmas – and when Emma came home from school she and neighbor Emily made a tiny friend for him.  Love that Carter wanted to just hang out with his arm around Frosty, and the stick legs someone stuck in him (who was jealous I think that Carter got to put in the whole face) and that Zach wanted nothing to do with the snowman but wanted to make sure I got a picture of him mid-throw (throwing snowballs at the tree) – I never got the timing right.  Frosty was melting fast, and looked pretty shabby in the house-for-sale pictures before his head fell off that afternoon and he melted completely over the weekend.   oh well.  Hopefully his hat will return (maybe a bird took it?) and we'll get some more snow and make him again!

The corn tower, and the crows!  (one, the city is very proud of; the other, they are trying to run out of town!)  We just happened to catch them both in the same spur of the moment photo.

Due to some technical difficulties (or human error), Zach's wolf badge wasn't awarded till the week after his birthday when he was technically a bear – even though he earned it way back in November.  He had the time of his life in wolves, with some awesome ladies for leaders.  Love this picture of him!  (His den leader was telling a story about how all the older scouts wanted him in their pack.)  Congratulations, Zach!

Meg has been our only baby to get into peek-a-boo – and she LOVES it.  She will play with anything… whether it covers her face or not.  The baby that keeps getting cuter… yeah, even with sweet potatoes all over her sweater (and maybe her face.)

Please, Dad?!  (I totally remember doing this as a kid!  Dads are such good sports.)

After 5 years of hoping and asking and dreaming, Zach finally made it to a Lego Club Meeting at the Mall of America's Lego store.  For those of you that didn't know there was such a thing, it is a monthly thing where you go for an hour before the store opens and build with other crazy Lego fans on some specific theme (this month: Ninjago.  What are the odds!)  Zach was in heaven.  It was so fun to watch, and well worth the drive.