Sunny April Afternoon at the Neighborhood Park

 

Spring in my Neighborhood

Easter Morning

Easter Basket Cupcakes!

Dyeing Eggs!

We dyed our Easter eggs tonight, with only two egg mishaps--once when RUS got too excited and leaned on the table while holding an egg in his hand (oops!) and once when R colored on her egg a little too hard with her crayon (uh-oh!)--so there are 10 gorgeous eggs waiting in our fridge for the Easter bunny to hide on Sunday!

Spring Celebration

R's pre-kindergarten class at day care had a Spring Celebration today. She was so excited to share with us the basket she made and decorated for the celebration that she came running out of bed to tell me that she wanted to keep the basket in her room. I decided right then and there that I ought to take a picture to document how awesome the basket was and throw it up on the blog. So here you go!

GUESS WHO the kids saw at school today!!

Yep, Elmo and Super Grover!!!!! You can see part of Super Grover behind Elmo in the top pic. A mom of another girl in RUS's class headed over to the school to see the visit and shared these pictures of RUS with me. RUS and her daughter (the girl in the yellow shirt) are BFFs. They have been in the same class since RUS started day care at 10 months old and they hold hands and hug whenever they see each other. It's adorable.

Anyway, RUS was so excited to tell us all about his time with Elmo and Super Grover today! R also got to see them, but I don't have pictures of the pre-kindergarteners with the characters--this is just the toddler group.

According to R, they did exercises and everyone did the Hokey Pokey together! And then they all got to give them hugs. RUS informed us he "not give Super Grover hug" although I'm not sure if that was intentional on his part or just because in the interest of time they only hugged one character or what.

 I absolutely LOVE how up-close and personal the kids were able to get!!!!!!

What's Been Going on With Us?

Tulips and daffodils on my walk to school the other day.

So. J and I have both been really consumed with life and work and that hasn't seemed to leave much room for introspection and sharing on the blog, and I apologize for that, not only because I like hearing from all of you who read the blog and keep up with our lives this way, but also because it was our high-tech version of a photo album.

I'm slightly worried I'll end up being one of those moms who keeps a photo album for the first 4 years of my kids' lives and then everything else goes undocumented!! I love looking at old pictures and reading the old stories. I have just had to let some things go in the last month and unfortunately, keeping up with our lives in pictures and stories was that thing. I'm going to throw up some posts now, all recent, because when I wasn't blogging, I also wasn't taking any pictures, either. I feel like my memories are all tied up in physical reminders--if I don't take a picture of what I've done, I fear I won't remember it later.