William is 6 months old!!

Happy March Madness to everyone! Can you believe I am 6 months old? I can't either! I am tipping the scales at 15lbs 9oz and about 26". I love to eat-my favorites so far are peas, green beans, avocado, banana, and peaches. I am not a fan of oatmeal or rice cereal, no matter how many times Mommy tries to feed it to me.

This month I learned to rock n' roll. I love to roll to get to my sister's toys. I am also sitting by myself. This makes playing with toys much easier. I love picking up my blocks and jamming them into my mouth.



I love to nap, but sleeping at night is overrated. I am getting better now that I can sleep on my tummy and find my pacifier to put in my mouth. However, I still love those late night snuggles from Mommy.



Hope you all have a great Easter! I will be celebrating in NY. Also, Happy Start to baseball season! Mommy & Daddy are already brainwashing me into becoming an Indians fan. With their decent spring, it looks like maybe just maybe we won't be a basement dwelling team.



Love,

William

(Mark, Kim, & Elise too!)

We're going to the Zoo. Zoo. Zoo.

This weather is freaking AWESOME! So in true St. Pattys day fashion, I took the Fletcher Kiddos to the Zoo to soak up the sunshine. Elise loves the apes, polar bears, and giraffes. All the animals were out today and active which changes in the summer when they are usually napping.

Our Tour Guide showing me where the Polar Bears live...

Elise & da Chimps! She thought it was funny when the baby chimp mooned us.

William was there too!

Enjoying a strawberry icecream treat!

Learning the art of the self portrait!

Watch out Michael Phelps...here comes Elise!

Our friend, K, introduced us to a super fun swim school, Goldfish Swim School, today. Elise has always been a little nervous in the water and clinging on to me for dear life. As a former swim teacher & lifeguard this broke my heart. So, we decided to bring in the big guns and sign her up for swim lessons! Elise was a bit nervous at first, but once she warmed up to Mr. Mike, she got really into the lessons! I look forward to watching my little guppy turn into a fish!

Spring has sprung (almost!)

Finally Spring has made an arrival here in Michigan! Even though the snow took 6 days to melt, the warm temps, the birds chirping, and the sun put all of us in a great mood!! I took the kiddos out to the park Monday and we had fun even though there was still 5-6" of snow on the ground...

Here Lady Gaga shows off her stellar swinging skills

William loves his first time in a big kid swing!

Swinging in the snow!

Word has it that next week it is going to keep staying warm! YAY! Perhaps we can say goodbye to winter until next year?!!?

U-S-A! U-S-A!

We are Olympics crazy here in our household! Elise has been playing "lympics" all week long. Her events are crazy dancing, snow jumping, and ice skating with too small slippers on. She wanted some medals like the athletes she sees on TV. So here Miss E is graciously accepting her gold & silver medals.

Elise wanted William to get in on the fun too...so William won a silver medal in Smiling Baby. (Although the Mommy Judge scored him a gold ;) )

Here are the two Olympians posing for the press:

Indoor Fun with the Fletch Family

Welcome to the Weekly ADM Blog Hop. Anyone can join in! Just blog on topic between now and next Monday, include the MckLinky code (below) in your post, and hop on over to your fellow bloggers!

This week's topic:

Here in the midwest we are snowed in but everywhere has days where cabin fever can creep in. What are your favorite indoor activities to do with your kids?

New baby + mom who is not a fan of cold weather = lots of indoor activities for our family. We have discovered a lot of gems in the area such as Chelsea Treehouse, Open Gymnastics, and our favorite the bounce house. However, with all the sickness going around our family we have discovered a lot of fun indoor at home activities to do too!

Board games are a fave amongst Elise. We love Cooties, Chutes and ladders, and Ants in the Pants. Also lots of puzzles. Then we have the electronic games such as rockband (E loves singing Beatles classics!)

However, hands down the favorite family activity (including William) is FAMILY DANCE PARTY! Where we bust a move to Single Ladies, Glee, Disney Classics & Mommy's late 90's rap (edited of course). Family Dance Party gets out all the energy and is just a fun time to let loose & have my dear husband make fun of my mad awesome dancing skills. (He is just jealous I can bust a move!)

So for now these activites will have to do until spring comes along...we can thank the groundhog for all this snow by the way... ;)

The never ending cycle of RSV

Our family has been buried in sickness. It started out with Mark 2 weeks ago with a sinus infection. Then Elise with RSV, spreading to Baby Will, and finally me. The RSV turned into double ear infections for both kids. Then we found out William is allergic to amoxacillin. It has been the longest 10 days in our life. Five doctors visits, 4 trips to pharmacies, & at least 6 kleenex boxes later...I *think* we are on the mend.

Oh spring where are you!?!?!

See how cute they are on antibotics? They are even holding hands spreading germs. Who says siblings don't share? :)