Some Monday Ramblings

• Two Friday's ago, Grace and I spent the evening with some friends we hadn't seen in ages. It was great to catch up with Angela, and it was so cute watching Grace and Gabriella catch up with each other too!
  "I'm three years old, how old are you?" "I'm three years old too! My favorite color is purple, what's your favorite color?" "I like purple, and pink, and black." We went out for supper and then to Stars on Ice. We ended up leaving during the intermission because it was late but everyone enjoyed the first half of the show. 
• Anna is getting braver at the playground and on the slides/climbers in our yard. I try to just let her find her own way but sometimes she plops down on her bum to scoot towards the slide and she's right on the edge almost falling over backwards! 
• I love how much Grace and Anna love their baby cousins. They are so sweet and loving with Madeline and Kamryn. Yesterday Anna jammed Kam's finger in the drawer of their little cash register. Kam started wailing and I think Anna realized that she had something to do with it and then she started crying! Poor girls were both so upset!
• Anna has started copying Kamryn's laugh, it's so cute! Her laugh sounds kind of like a little cough. Anna will say "KamBam laugh" and then impersonate it. So funny. 
• I went out for brunch on Saturday with my sister and our friend Jenn. With no kids! It was so nice. 
• We spent the rest of the day at the camp with Zilla and Bampers. The girls loved exploring around the camp, throwing rocks in the brook, and blowing bubbles. The deck is pretty rotten and is going to be replaced, so we were telling the girls to be careful and trying to keep Anna away from all the really soft spots. Despite our efforts, she fell through! Thankfully she wasn't hurt, just a little scared. Zilla is going to order all the supplies for the new deck this week! 
• Brian was in a softball tournament all weekend so we went to watch a game yesterday morning. They lost and were out of the tournament after that, so after a little visit with Korryn, Mike, and KamBam, I took the girls home for some much needed naps. They both slept for several hours! I hung out on the deck for a while with my book. It was a lovely weekend!

Easter Recap 2014

Grace was really excited about Easter this year. She was pumped when I brought out the decorations, which isn't much! She started taking a couple stuffed bunnies to bed with her and kept asking how many more sleeps until the Easter Bunny would come. On Easter morning she walked out of her room and said sleepily "is it Easter?" When I said yes, she ran down the hall to the living room and was so pumped to see a few eggs hidden around the room! She could see from the patio door that there were some eggs hidden in the backyard and couldn't wait to go get them. But when I suggested we just go outside in our jammies, she said no, she had to "put on something pretty and something cozy." Um, who is this kid?

Something pretty and something cozy

The girls each got a few small gifts from the Easter Bunny but the real highlight was the egg hunt. We put Smarties, Eggies, and stickers in a bunch of plastic eggs and hid a few in the house, and most of them outside in the yard. They didn't get much chocolate other than that, and I'm glad I didn't buy more because I'm sure I would have ended up eating most of it myself! Grace loved the egg hunt so much I almost wished we had hid more eggs. She even let Anna find a few ;)

We spent the afternoon at Zilla and Bampers' house. It was a gorgeous day so we spent most of it outside, complete with an egg toss! I think we'll make it a new Easter tradition.

Welcoming the Month of May

Spring started last month but we are finally getting some Spring weather now as we enter the month of May. I'm still putting hats and mittens on the kids when we play outside, but at least we've been getting some sunshine and there is no snow on the ground! 

This was a rough winter for us - it seemed like there was always somebody sick! The girls (and Brian) are getting over colds now, and I hope this is it. I am so ready to break out the flip flops, spend days at the lake, and just be able to hang out outside without wearing multiple layers!