Soccer!

Autumn always wants to play soccer so we took her up to the field at the playground. I think she's confusing it with football, though, since she didn't want to kick the ball but instead liked to pick it up and run with it...

Egg Hunt #3

Aunt Lori and Uncle Steve had their "first annual egg hunt" today. Autumn had a great time. She did a good job finding eggs and loved finding the foil-wrapped candy inside them. She did manage to discover cat food, too. I guess the cat food did look a lot like the Kashi cereal she eats...

Autumn's Happy Face

This is what she calls her "happy face"...

Autumn's Abstract Art

Autumn took these photos herself...

Paper Towels

Evan got a hold of the roll of paper towels...

Huh?

I went downstairs for a moment to get the wash and came up to find Evan like this... hmmm, who put those ears on him? Must have been the Easter Bunny!

Happy Easter!

We attempted to go to church - we lasted 20 minutes until both kids were unruly. They did better at the Egg Hunt at Biddy & Grammy's. Autumn loved finding the eggs and enjoyed eating the cake that we made. She thought it was her birthday since she got cake and Grammy got her a ton of presents for Easter.

Autumn's First Easter Egg Hunt

We went to see the Easter Bunny first, but she didn't really like him. We waited in line for the egg hunt to begin. She didn't like waiting so Dada bribed her with some candy the Easter Bunny gave her then "ready, set, go"... stampede of parents and children. Many parents were picking up the eggs for their kids but we wanted Autumn to enjoy it and didn't really care how many eggs she got as long as she had fun. She got a few eggs and discovered a small foil-wrapped chocolate egg inside which she had learned about at Aunt Lori's shower (she finally discovered that foil-wrapped things have candy inside). She ate that one and let Dada have the rest of the candy. But then came the best part, in her eyes... sticks and rocks - definitely the highlight of the day! We had the sticks lined up and of course there was the "Mama snake", "Dada snake", and "Baby snake"... but I think all the rocks were "babies" since they were all gravel size. She had fun making piles and just getting dirty! Meanwhile, Evan just checked things out and had a bottle...

Painting Easter Eggs!

We went to Biddy and Grammy's for the traditional Saturday lunch (but at dinner time this year!) of Paska bread, ham, potato salad, and hard-boiled eggs. Autumn LOVED the paska bread! She did a great job painting eggs, too. We also made a bunny cake which we'll show you tomorrow!

Tummy Time

Evan rolled onto his tummy today and didn't protest being there... he actually liked it. I think he wants to crawl... he's just itching to move.

Gramma's Birthday

Curious George

We were able to get some free tickets to the Curious George Live show. Autumn did not like the idea of sitting in a seat but she was taken by all the people and activity. We finally got her to sit by giving her her first soft pretzel. She had a good time and Jim and I had an even better time watching her!

Good Big Sister!

I'm sure sibling rivalry will happen when they get older but for now it warms my heart with how sweet Autumn is with her brother... Evan dropped his monkey and started to fuss.. Autumn: "Don't cry, B'en. It's otay. I get your monkey."

Evan's First Tantrum

We took Evan to Sadies to get his Easter pictures done since they have live bunnies. At one point the bunny put his front legs up on the basket Evan was sitting in. Evan grabbed her one leg and when I tried to pry his little fingers off, he did a major "pouty lip" and let out this big scream. Jim thought that the bunny had either scratched him or bit him but I was right there and knew neither had happened - Evan was just mad that the bunny was taken away!