January...in a Nutshell

I don't have much to report from the month of January! We slid back into regular life after our trip to Colorado, enjoying a month of calm after the craziness of the holidays. :)

Belle has become quite sweet lately. She's letting us pet her more and more, and she seems more agreeable to people fussing over her. :) 

Reagan does a lot of this. Sleeping. She loves to sleep. 

And bark. She barks a lot.

And follows me around so much that she starts to fall asleep while standing up...so I bring her a mat to lay on while I work in the kitchen.

Walker has really enjoyed basketball this year! He's becoming more aggressive and he plays it almost every day with his friends from the neighborhood. Well, when it's not cold or rainy outside. ;)

Lainey LOVES tap. She participated in a tap festival the other weekend and had so much fun; 

with their teacher, Miss Katlyn

a funny outtake :) 

onstage with Emma and Kerrington

Awhile back, in the fall, Lainey's tap company had the opportunity to get their photos taken by a professional photographer. She did a fabulous job! 

Their style was to be "70s streetwear" which I thought was so cute!

Above is Walker's rendition of our neighborhood, Origami-style. :) 

On the far left is Declan's house...then Nicco's is the green/yellow house...ours is the blue one with the "trampoline" in the back...and the Madisons' house is the orange one. Our elementary school is the big yellow building across from the houses. :) We may have actually mislabeled the sign...we'll have to fix that. I, for one, am quite impressed with Walker's neighborhood! :) 

Lainey and her friend Ally...a friendship divided. OU vs. TX. :) 

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Hope everyone has had a good start to 2019! I'm looking forward to a somewhat-slow February before the craziness of the spring begins! Dance competitions, baseball tournaments, dance recitals, fifth grade graduation...all things to look forward to in the spring. I think I'm ready for us to tackle this season head-on...this time last year, we were still with Ben in the hospital. He's come such a long way in a year, and for that, we are SO thankful. He's going to be a much bigger help this year, too, as we try to tag-team both kids and their commitments! :)