Our Easter Weekend

This weekend was another one filled with Easter fun. Brian was able to come home this weekend to join in the Easter activities too.

Decorating eggs: Our lovely eggs

We went to an Easter Extravaganza event at the community center in our neighborhood on Saturday.

Lily getting an Easter egg painted on her face:

waiting for the Easter egg hunt to begin

Jumping in the moon bounce

Even the Easter Bunny was there!

a pic of Lily & her friends: Stevie, Kylie & Kale

After the Easter Extravaganza, Jamie had an Easter Egg hunt at her house for all the neighborhood friends.Lily & Stevie hunting eggs

Lily & Kylie with their find Egg race


On Easter morning Lily was couldn't wait to go downstairs and find what the Easter Bunny brought for her.
Hunting eggs all over the house:
She thought it was funny the bunny hid some in her legos...
Zoey wanted in on the bunny ear action:
And Vader can't be left out! Family Easter pic

We also let Lily & Stevie roast marshmallows over the fire pit this weekend.

Lily's very first s'more.

Nice marshmallow face!

St. Patrick's Day

We made some festive green cupcakes for St Patrick's Day this week.

Our green cupcake mix...

Lily decorating

Ewww...her fingers are green! She said maybe she was turning into a leprechaun!
yummy!

Hippity Hoppity Easter's On It's Way

This weekend was packed full of Easter fun for Lily. On Saturday we went to an Easter Egg Hunt on post & then Sunday Lily got dressed up in her Easter dress & paid a visit to the Easter Bunny at the mall.

Waiting for the fun to begin...Find the eggs!!
Showing off her spoils
All dressed up

She insisted I got a picture of her "curly hair" :o)

The Playroom

A few of us moms got together today & took the kids to The Playroom. It's this indoor playground with lots of toys, dress up costumes and huge inflatables. The kids had a blast!

Lily & Stevie waiting to go down the giant slide

Lily wanted to dress up as a pink poodle - how surprising...

Lily & Noah the Bee racing on the roller coasters
Lily & Stevie racing

Lily stuck to the velcro wall - HA HA!

What a fun day!!

Little Miss Creativity

Miss Lily seems to have tapped into her creative side recently. With all the different outfits she has been putting together lately, I shouldn't have been surprised she came up with this one. Even though she looks a little silly, I thought it was actually a pretty good idea once I figured out what she was trying to do. Lily said she wanted to dress up as a pink dog, so she stuck two of her pink socks in her crown & said they were puppy dog ears! Such a smart girl.

Fancy Lily??

Just when I think Lily's fashion sense may be getting better, she walks into the bedroom like this today:

I asked her what in the world she was wearing and she explained to me that she wanted to dress like 'Fancy Nancy' (a character from one of her books) - so I guess it's not really her fashion sense, but Fancy Nancy's I need to question. :o)

Well, there's not too much exciting news to report this week. Lily went to her dentist appointment on Thursday. She was pretty good, but I was a little surprised that she wasn't as calm and well behaved as she was at the last few dentist appointments. She refused to let the dentist take side x-rays with their portable x-ray machine. She did let them take the panoramic one with the machine that moves around her head, but that was only after a bribe to go to Toy's R Us if she let them do it. She also freaked out when she saw the tool they use to scrape the plaque off her teeth (the one with the little hook on the end) and wouldn't let them use that either. But all in all, she did pretty good and her teeth received a clean bill of health. We were told that her permanent molars will be coming in soon and that within the next year she will start losing her baby teeth. (Which made Mom a little sad - she's just growing up too fast!)

Lily's new favorite song (the old one was 'Fly' by Tim McGraw or as Lily liked to say "1,2,3 like a bird I seen, cause you've given me the most beautiful chicken wang" lol) is 'Where I Come From' by Alan Jackson - or "the cornbread and chicken song" which Lily has named it. Whenever Lily & I are driving somewhere in the car, she requests this song & we have to listen to it over & over. Luckily we usually aren't going very far, so I don't have to listen to it for too long, but I am starting to hope she finds a new favorite song soon, because this one is getting a little old. :o)

I do have a cute story about Lily this week. On Saturday we went to Andrew's (Stevie's youngest brother's) 1 year birthday party. We got home around 6:30 and Lily asked if she could watch tv for a little while. I said yes and when I checked on her a half hour later, she was fast asleep! I was worried she would wake up in the middle of the night hungry, since we hadn't had a chance to have dinner yet, but she slept all the way through till 8:30 Sunday morning! The only time she woke up was at about 2am - she woke up & said "Mom? Your the greatest Mommy in the whole wide world - and Daddy is the best Daddy, and Vava and Zoey are the best dogs and I have the best baby in the world too" Then she leaned over & gave me a kiss, gave both the dogs a kiss and gave my belly a kiss. (SO SWEET!) Then she said "Mom? Can I go brush my teeth?" I said sure, so she went & brushed her teeth, climbed back into bed & fell asleep until morning! What a sweet, sweet girl!

In other news, Vader seems to have fully recovered from whatever was wrong last week - so I guess the antibiotics cleared up whatever it was. Thank Goodness! However, he was subjected to being locked in Lily's room this morning & being "dressed up" (which usually only Zoey will tolerate). I went to check on them & he wasn't looking very happy to be wearing kitty ears and several pink and purple necklaces - but Lily sure thought it was funny. I wish I could have gotten a picture before he escaped under the bed. Zoey on the other hand was happy to be dressed up in a tutu and some necklaces while Lily read her one of her new books - "Bad Dog, Marley!" (the children's version of Marley & Me by John Grogan) It's a really cute book, but poor Zoey thought she was in trouble every time Lily said "Bad dog, Marley!" (which is said a lot).

Still no news about Brian's recruiting orders. He has filled out all the necessary paperwork and he is going to try to come to Fort Lee next weekend to submit his packet to the company. He should have his commander's interview then as well, so hopefully we will know something soon.

Here's an update on the baby's progress too:

Your baby's about 15.7 inches long now, and he weighs almost 3 pounds (like a head of cabbage). A pint and a half of amniotic fluid surrounds him, but that volume will decrease as he gets bigger and takes up more room in your uterus. His eyesight continues to develop, though it's not very keen; even after he's born, he'll keep his eyes closed for a good part of the day. When he does open them, he'll respond to changes in light but will have 20/400 vision — which means he can only make out objects a few inches from his face. (Normal adult vision is 20/20.)

Our Exciting Tuesday

During playgroup on Tuesday, there was a fire drill. They set off smoke bombs and set up dummies for the firemen to rescue in the building where playgroup is held. We all had to wait outside while this was being done, but when the firemen were done practicing, they let all the kids climb up in the firetruck and ring the bell.

After playgroup we decided to take the kids bowling. They had lots of fun and they were surprisingly good! Even though they had bumpers, they threw (yes, threw!) the ball pretty straight & their scores were almost as good as ours! (Not that that is saying much...) :o)

Madison, Lily & Stevie