They really like each other! This is what I find most nights when I head to bed and check on the kiddos. I find one of them asleep in the other's bed. I think it is the sweetest thing I've ever seen.















We only had one good snow this year and we had to go into Springfield to see it. We didn't get a flake of snow at our house but there was 6 inches of snow at Grandma's.














We took our first swimming lessons in March and the kids learned a lot. After four weeks Jack is swimming and floating on his back above water and 4-5 feet under water. Molly has learned how to hold her breath to go under and very short back floats! By the way, the reason Jack is completely wet and the other kids are dry:

When the teacher said "let's go" to the kids (meaning, let's get in on the steps), Jack took two huge steps and leaped into the deep end. The teacher (fully dressed and six months pregnant) jumped in after him and then when she got him out, he jumped in again. I guess all that rock jumping in California might have over-prepared him for swimming lessons at the YMCA.