This winter was rough. When daylight savings ended and it started getting dark at like 4:30, I felt like we struggled every night. It is so hard to keep all 3 kids happy cooped up in the house and they got sick of all 3 of our closest libraries really fast. We added a few activities to help keep the kids busy — Wil started taekwondo and Evie started dance. Evie is also doing an extra day of school for 3 total days and Wil is going ‘long’ days (until 2pm) on M/W. We also finally found a few babysitters in the area and have been using them on Wednesday and Friday afternoons — It makes it easier for me to run kids to activities and not disrupt Zev’s nap and it gives me a chance to occasionally get some Hopkins work done during the day instead of evenings and weekends.
Phil and I made it into the city a few times — We went to Hamilton (our big christmas present! and it was sooo amazing) and also saw Regina Spektor at Chicago Theater which was beautiful.
We had our first trip to immediate care, ever. I’m actually surprised it took 5.5 years of parenthood until we had a true emergency. I’m not surprised it was Zev. He fell right into a door hinge and needed liquid stitches. Yuck.
Auntie Em had her baby! Welcome to the world cousin Hank!
Annakate came to Chicago! It was so great to have a day catching up with her.
We introduced Wil and Evie to Mario Cart. It took a few weeks to catch on but Wil is legitimately good now, he has beaten Bmalm several times. Evie still likes to ‘explore’ rather than race the courses. But then gets mad when she loses.
We are finally finally finally almost done with all the boxes in our house!! I swear I’ll do a house tour once the last few things are on the walls, and the dining room is done, and the workout room is done….so like…1 more year…But its nice that things are finally finding a place in our home.
Here is a montage of our winter in Long Grove — with lots of leftover holiday pictures as well —
Woznation 
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