thankful friday

• ... that colin's cute. he's fullfledged into 2yo whiner stage. a cold and molars (i guess?) don't help.
• brady's out of his whine stage.
• this week brady suggested we make pizza for dinner. he mostly wanted to work the dough. i forgot how good (semi)homemade was.

• uh, it's february. so at least we're done with january, right?
• last weekend aiden & i had a lot of impromtu 1on1 time, which was so fun i'm looking to do it again really soon.
• brady's fullfledged stage is pretend. it's fun to listen to him narrate and act out his imagination and see how it goes all OVER the place.
  

• ran to target for some retail therapy (and starbuck's) yesterday and it totally helped (the winter blues). whew. brady was not used to mom saying yes to all his requests: dinosaur (hot) cereal, brownie mix, colored goldfish (we already have costco sized original), a blue icee!? we all need to get to our happy place occassionally no matter the frigid temps right?
• some fun stuff planned for the weekend, with and without the kids. always good when days or weekends have that balance.

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edited to add. we made our brownies this morning. to be festive we snuck in a few conversation hearts as a treat for the person(s) who gets those portions. the piggie in me wanted to swirl some peanut butter through some (ahh, yea, they're heaven). in colin style, he added 2 grapes. we've all agreed to let him critique those.