Easter

The holidays are a lot more fun with kids. I forget how excited they get to wake up and look for the Easter Bunny or Santa. It was nearly impossible to keep NW from running around the house when she woke up Easter morning. She needed to stay in our bedroom and watch TV until LW woke up. Needless to say, she woke up very soon after.

We went to Easter Egg hunt at a park in Victoria. You had to search for the ribbon on the trees and then find the eggs. The eggs were actually rocks painted Easter colors. Here is NW is acting all shy for the camera.

While LW was sleeping, we decided to color some eggs. The coloring kit comes with a loop to scoop the eggs out, but NW decided she didnt need it.

This is what happens after coloring eggs and dipping your hand in every color. I'm not sure why they turned green. I would expect black. Since that is the presence of all colors for paint. But anyways...

More Cheeseballs Now!

The big thing that the girls discovered this weekend was that they love cheeseballs. The ones that have absolutely no nutritional value. I'm not even sure what they are made of. But Uncle Bruce brought a bag of them to Easter and the kids devoured them. They ate so many of them that they didn't eat any dinner. We figure every once in a while we can let them cut loose.

LW only knows a few words and one of them happens to be "Ball". So this was perfect for her. She said "Ball" non stop and was so happy to reach into that bag to grab more. She had between 2-4 cheeseballs in her cheesy little hands at all times. If her hands were bigger, she would have carried more.

Uncle Bruce rode his motorcycle over and of course they wanted to sit on it.

Putting the hurt on the cheeseballs.

St Patrick's Day

We are going to back in time for this one. Last month grandma and grandpa took NW for the day and they went to go see the parade in St Paul. If you remember the July 4th post, then you know that NW loves a parade. She doesn't even eat the candy, she just loves to see how much she can get and the whole experience of it. So if you add a parade to being with grandma and grandpa....look out.

Snowsuit and shamrock headband. Let's do this.

Fill er up.

Look at that haul. That is more candy than she gets for Halloween.

Catchy Little Tune

We dont know why, but NW had this song stuck in her head all afternoon. It's not even a real song, it was something that she made up. It was funny for a while, but it got real old after a couple of hours.Don't believe me, try watching that video for 2 hours. It got so bad that I started talking to her in the same tune. Then it was funny again.

Outside Finally

I don't need to tell you, but it was a hellish winter. The kids were going crazy to get outside. Now that they can be outside, they never want to come in. They would eat and sleep outside if I would let them. NW has started playing with the neighbor girls and cant wait for them to get home from school. She knows that they get home from school at 4:00 and is waiting at the fence for them to come outside. It is super cute. She is growing up in a hurry.  Pretty soon she won't want anything to do with us.

Now for some pictures of LW:

Check out those baby blues.

This is what happens when you leave LW unattended in the backyard. It looks like Oreo's on her cheeks, but it's charcoal. She found a left over piece from the snowman. Charcoal isn't bad for her is it?

Kid #2 in the coupe.

She has no fear. She will go down the slide without any help. She loves it.

The Shrine Circus

Uncle Brett wanted to take the girls and I to the circus. So, last week we all went along with Auntie Anna. It was a ton of fun! The had all kinds of activities before, at intermission and afterwards. I told Brett that Nataly probably won't want to go on the elephant so don't plan on it. Well when we got there Brett asked Nataly if she wanted to go on a pony ride. She said, "No, I want to go on that!" She pointed to the elephant ride. I was shocked! Nataly was bound and determined to get on the elephant. Of course it was the loooongest line there. So, before we couldn't get on it. We had to get to our seats. The first have was full of excitement. Lions, tigers, horses, elephants and women climbing up ropes and twirling around. That is so serious arm strength. Then there were women twirling around hula hoops up to 15 at least at one time. Lucy and Nataly were having a blast. At some points they were having more fun with the special light up wands than the circus but who cares right? You are at the circus. Plus, you have to have a light up toy during the circus. Then intermission came. A 15 mintue one to say the least. It probably took us that long just to get onto the floor. Then we had to buy the ticket in one line then get into another line for the elephant ride. The line once again was super long. To say it again we didn't get on the elephant during intermission. We had our ticket at least. Nataly got her picture taken with a clown but Lucy didn't want any part of the clown. She didn't even want her big sister near him. Too scary. She got pretty upset. So the second half came. We had trapeeze artists, more girls on ropes, the pink poodles and more elephants. They even had dirt bike riders inside a big globe riding around each other. Pretty cool. Then we had to leave our seats early just so we could get down to the floor and in line for the elephant ride. We had been here way too long. We were going on 3 hours! Yes, 3 hours at the circus is plenty. So, we rushed in line and Nataly and Brett were third in line. Nataly rode the elephant by herself! No Uncle Brett. The guy put her right in the front too. She was so excited. When I asked her what it was like she said, "It was bumpy" and proceeded to demonstrate how it was. All in all we had a ton of fun. Thanks Uncle Brett for taking us to the circus! We had a blast with you and Auntie Anna!