A long overdue update!  I have pictures and news to report from February-December 2012.  I'm going to break it up month by month.  Here is the first installment - a summary of February 2012 in the life of the Yatzecks, as best I can remember, with the aid of our family wall calendar, photos, and facebook status updates.  Enjoy!

February 2 - We went to LaFleur's Gym for open gym.  Gymnastics fun with friends!

February 3 - My brother Adam and his girlfriend Devin came to visit us before Adam leaves to move out to Seattle for his new job.

February 6 - Mary had a small birthday party at our house with a bunch of her homeschool friends.  We had cupcakes baked in ice cream cones - yum!

Some time during the first half of February, Joey put a shirt on all by himself for the first time.  It was inside out and backwards, but he did it on his own and was very proud.  Lily, on the other hand, is already showing an interest in dressing herself at just 10 months old.  She will go into her drawer and pull out leggings and try to get them on her feet.  This is totally a personality thing, and quite amusing actually.

February 13 - We went to a Valentine's Day party with all of our homeschool friends.  Lily looked adorable.

February 15 - Mary turned 6 years old!  Grandma Terri took her to the movies, and told Mary she could pick whatever movie she wanted.  She picked Star Wars Episode 1 3D!

They also went out to lunch at McDonald's, where they happened to have Star Wars Happy meals!

It was a fabulous day.

February 18 - Mary had a birthday party at our house with a bunch of family members and friends visiting.  Every year we let her pick out whatever she wants for her birthday cake and try to make it for her ourselves.  This year she really wanted a Dr. Who birthday cake!  We told her that almost none of her party guests were familiar with the show, so they wouldn't know what the cake was supposed to be, but she didn't care.  At first I was a bit reluctant to make a cake that none of the party attendees would "get," but then I came to my senses and realized that it was MARY's birthday party.  None of the party guests would probably ever remember what sort of cake Mary had, but Mary would definitely remember a totally awesome Dr. Who cake!  We used up all of our blue food coloring.

Joey also enjoyed the cake.  In fact, he ate so much of the frosting that later on when he went poop it seriously looked like blue-green play dough.  At first I was worried, but then I remembered the frosting and made the connection.  Didn't seem to bother him at all!

Fun with party friends.

February 21 - Lily is 11 months old!

She is eating lots of foods now, and is super happy about it.

Time for our monthly photo shoot - these just get more and more interesting!

Joey really wanted to be in some pictures too.

And so did Mary.

And Lily again.

February 23 - I took a picture during bath time!

February 25 - I don't remember the story behind this picture, but it's pretty cute.

I also found this picture on the camera that Mary took of herself and thought it was neat.

February 27 - We took a tour of a Pizza Hut restaurant.  It was really cool - they led us all around the kitchen and showed us the walk in freezer and refrigerator.  Then we all got to make our own pizzas for lunch.

And that wraps up February!  Hopefully a March blog post won't be too far behind!