Easter Pics

The first 2 pics are of the girls with the baskets UM and AA sent. The next few are of their baskets, then the egg hunt (including C sampling her findings) and the last are of the egg dying. Don't you just love the look on the mad scientist's face in the last one. Notice the drops of blue dye on her check. And yes, I know those are Christmas PJ's they are wearing. hehehhe

Av's smile

She thinks she is smiling but this is what she is doing. When asked to smile this is the face. So cute.

Sesame Street Live

Av and her friend Caroline at SSL

spring break week

Avery did not have school this week. My friend Marci and I decided to swap kid watching. She had Av for me on Monday. Avery had the best time. Marci has just recently gotten a mini van and the kids think it’s the best thing ever. Av and Jackson get to rid in the way back of it in boosters (special treat as they are still in car seats and will be for awhile). Jackson helps Av click her seatbelt in and out of place. That alone made her day. They ran a few errands, went to the park and got charms for their crocs. Av was almost giddy when she was telling me about it. On Tuesday Stella and Jackson came to our house. It was very hot so we got out the sprinkler and had a picnic in the back yard. By naptime everyone was worn out. The big kids settled in for a movie and the babies went down for their naps easily. Today Heidi (Av’s fav babysitter) is at Marci’s house watching them. I am sure she is having a great time. Tomorrow we leave for WI to see John’s mom and grandparents. It’s been a pretty nice week for Av. Poor Camille didn’t get much of a ‘spring break’ but she didn’t seem to care.

sausage

We have started calling Camille the sausage. Or we say, “we are stuffing the sausage” when we are getting her dressed. She is so chunky and it is sooooooo cute. When Av was Camille’s age she was still wearing 12-month clothes so our clothes and seasons are not matching up. Av has 18-month winter clothes and 2T summer stuff. I was thinking since Camille is 18 months she needed 18-month summer clothes and so Av’s would not work. I pulled them out anyway to check them. Well Camille can wear them. They do not look anything like they did on Avery though. Camille fills out those 2T’s very well. Hehehehhe in her defense though they have been washed a few times. At least that’s what we are telling her to make her feel better.

daddy's girl

John has been traveling again so the girls and I get a lot of alone time. I guess Camille gets enough of me because when John is around he is all she wants. I can’t hold her, get her anything, or sometimes even talk/look at her. She is such a stinker and a daddy’s girl. She thinks Daddy hung the moon. Av does too of course. He is the funny one. He comes in and starts his silliness and the giggles follow quickly. It is music to my ears.

Easter

We had such a nice Easter. We were supposed to have brunch and an Easter egg hunt with friends but I was sick on Sat so that got canceled. We got up and Av spotted her basket right away. It was under the dinning room table and we were standing in the kitchen. Camille’s was right with hers. They were really excited. Camille’s basket was a little lacking (she does not need anything) but she didn’t seem to care. She had a big girl water bottle like her sister’s and a few eggs filled with money and that made her very happy. She carried the water bottle around with her all day. Av got a horse, letter workbook, princess underwear and princess car keys. She was in heaven too. After that we went out to the back yard for an Easter egg hunt. The girls really got into that too. Camille was dragging her basket behind her the whole time. It was a pretty cute sight. Then we died Easter eggs. Camille really thought that was pretty cool too. After that we walked to the park, went to the grocery and grilled out. It was a very nice day with my little family.

The day before I had some sort of stomach bug. I felt terrible. Aunt Anne had sent the girls Eater baskets and they could not have arrived at a better time. AA and UM sure do really spoil them. The baskets they sent were way better than ours. The baskets alone were too cute. One purple and one pink they had little tutus on them that could be taken off and worn. The girls got outfits, stickers, a horse and barbi for Av, purse for C, stamps for av, bows for c, stuffed animals, a movie, a cd, a book, I could just go on and on. They played with those baskets for hours. It was so thoughtful of them. There was no candy and everything that was picked out was really thought out and excatly what the girls are into.