I feel like I am posting the same pictures over and over again. Too many portraits. It is hard to take any other photo's inside my living room. I can't wait for warmer weather so we can go outside and take some pictures. I am really trying not to hate the winter so much, Mike is helping with that, I am trying to let his good habits wear off on me. He doesn't seem to have those useless emotions that consume me sometimes, like hating winter even though there is nothing you can do about it.

We had another busy busy weekend. Jacob needed new shoes. Ugh, what an absolute nightmare!! We went to 4 or 5 different stores on Saturday and tried on way too many shoes. His last pair were Payless cheapies and wore out before he grew out of them. This time we ignored the price tags, luckily the pair he picked out were only 25. His last ones were just slip on canvas and we wanted to get him a pair with laces and more support. The poor kid still can't tie his shoes. We have tried to teach him and even bought him a step by step book with practice laces and he still can't get it. We gave up and hoped he would eventually learn - uh yeah - didn't work. Feel free to leave any suggestions for us in the comments if you have any advice for teaching your kids on how to tie. Sunday was fun, we went to Plymouth to see my friend Nicole and went to the ice sculpture festival with her.

I told Mike that we shouldn't make any plans for next weekend because we are always so exhausted on Monday from our crazy weekends. He agreed. Then we made plans to go to Tree City Diapers in Ann Arbor because we need a couple more diapers, lol. I told him we can order them online - it is only about $3.00 for shipping - but he wants to go. I don't mind though we can't go to Ann Arbor without going to Whole Foods anyway :)

Owen was not cranky at all today :) Lets hope that it lasts the rest of the week because I don't want to go through what I did last week again!! **fingers crossed**