Spring

After The Sickness, the Groundhog told us Spring was coming.  And he didn't lie!

Fischer's teeth have started popping up.  As soon as one comes through, another starts it's journey to the surface.  He really likes teething, and so do I.
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One of his favorite activities.
I've decided most of his favorite pastimes include being bent on destruction or ending his life. 

We also had attack of the slugs.  We go outside and once we come back in we inevitably find a stow away or 15 on our shoes, socks, pants, coats, hair, you name it.  This is one that was found on Tessa's foot, inside of tights!

We had a beautifully, sunny day with no school and headed on an adventure to Portland with our Besties.  First stop, Grilled Cheese Grill.  Yumm-O!

This is The Hunter: cheese, fried egg, bacon, and ham.  I will be sad when I stop nursing, and can't eat anything I want :(

Next stop, Oregon Zoo.

  This was our second time to this zoo, because we went for Zoo Lights a couple days before Christmas.  2nd time was better.  We all really enjoyed it.  Plenty of animals, you could see them well, and not too much hiking all over the place. 

Everyone's favorite parts were as follows:  Mom loved Lily the new baby elephant, Emory liked both kinds of bears, Tessa loved the giraffes, and Fischer was over the moon about... Fish!  (No pictures of the giraffes because there was some massive Spring Fever going on and I had nightmares about the "things" I saw going on in that enclosure.)

There was no shortage of photo ops.

Spring is definitely in the air, but that usually means at least 8 more weeks of rain for us.

Lastly, Emory lost her other front tooth.  You know the teeth falling out thing is getting less cool when she comes home from school, opens her mouth and says, "Yank it out," and I do, while I'm talking on the phone and cooking dinner.  What a cutie!