Sunday, March 27, 2016

Easter

My Mom and Scott joined us in Columbus, OH for Easter this year.  We kept it low key at the house with a little basket hunt in the morning and headed over to Brian's Aunt Lisa's and Uncle Joe's for an Easter soiree.

I'll stop typing and let the pictures do our holiday justice.

First thing's first: Easter morning sister hugs!

Basket hunting...not in the bathroom.

Perhaps in the living room?!

Could it possibly be under the only thing with a draped blanket
over top of it?!

Why, yes.  Yes, it could.  And is.  #shestoosmart
#imtoolazytohideitbetter

Love this.

Easter girls and Easter baskets!


Here's the night before shot of both of the baskets we put together.
Kate (3.5 yo) on the left, Maya (.5 yo) on the right.

I took one photo of Maya exploring her basket...

...and Kate had two things left in hers.  #whatbasket

Cardboard is so good on Easter morning!

I should note that Kate more or less saw everything in her Easter basket prior to this morning.  I took a photo of everything I had for both baskets to show Brian to see if he wanted to add/remove anything.  Kate, very often, goes through my photos on my phone.  A few days ago, she said to me, "I like all of the things in that photo."  #momfail  #imnotevengoingtotryanymore

Gearing up for a real Easter egg hunt!

[Sunny] Family photo.

Yummy plastic eggs!

I guess this is what you do when you have a
balanced adult:child ratio.
What happens when that ratio expands...on the child side?

Kate is tearing it up!

Gramma helps Maya with hers.

Because that's what Gramma's do best!

Oooh!  One way up there!

This one is yummy too!

Wait.  There's something inside all of these?!

Checking out the loot!

I put this on instagram and captioned it with:
"And the green grass grew all around all around..."
Because #itdid.

Kate and Pop Pop.

Mimi and Gramma

Basket heads - Mom and Aunt Judy.

One of my Easter girls!

Happy Easter!

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Last Week of March: Gearing Up For Easter

The problem with being so far behind on blog posts is that I forget all the little details that made my moments so special.

But the amazing thing about being so far behind on blog posts is that I get to relive all of my moments that I captured through photo and film.  It's amazing how much changes in such a short amount of time.

Here is our last week of March.

Bath time in our house is an event, people.  There's no one that can make Maya laugh the way she does in the video below other than her big sister, Kate.  Kate is still the apple of Maya's eye, and seeing the two of them together just melts me every single time.


Seriously.  I melt.  Such a happy baby!

In some of our spare time, we worked on some Easter Egg Art using paper, masking tape, pom poms, clothes pins, and paint.  This was a successful and easy project!  Win.  Win.

First I traced the egg I initially cut onto four other papers and
put a random pattern of masking tape over them.

I let Kate choose paint colors and pom pom colors and she went to
town.

I chose to use pom poms to add texture to our eggs but you could
totally use any other method of putting paint on paper.

Once the eggs were done, we let them dry.

I promptly removed tape with some success (only a bit of the
white paper was ripped).
And then we hung them in the play room.

We also continued reveling in our mornings together which typically involves Kate and me going into Maya's room together when she wakes up from sleeping or napping.  And, I should note, also typically involves Kate getting into Maya's crib too.



Morning sister kisses...or little cheek bites.  You be the judge.

My happy girl!

My beauty on our walk to the library.

We enjoyed a quiet trip to the zoo.  And by quiet I mean we were one of the few lone families there.  It always surprises me how many people I don't see out even when you can dress appropriately for weather.

Carousel-fie.  Ha ha.

And we continued getting our Easter on by heading over to Mimi and Papaw's house to make Easter cookies and dye eggs.

Me and my girls!  Love.

Can you find the Easter cookies?  I promise they are there.

Easter girls.

Egg dying at its classiest - with a whisk.

Mimi and Papaw are old pros at egg dying.

Talking about something...again, if I was more
caught up I may have remembered what we were
talking about...

Exploring the egg yolk.  And by exploring I mean
making a serious mess.

The final products/collection of egg yolk mess.

In more Easter celebration, we headed to Thompson Park for our annual Easter Egg Hunt.  This year's was a lot more successful than last year's.  We arrived way earlier so we had a lot of time before the actual candy hunt, we met up with Kate's best friend, Libby, and I didn't try to make brownies and cram a bunch of stuff in before...

Libby and Kate with the Easter Bunny.

Ready to hunt!

Libby and Kate.

Discussing a plan of action.

They are seriously so cute.

And she's off!

She totally has this down.

A seasoned pro!

Well, make that TWO seasoned pros!

A quick game of hide-and-seek behind a tree before
we left!

Coincidentally, even though I didn't plan a bunch of stuff prior to the Easter Egg Hunt, we actually had a bunch of stuff going on today anyway.  After the Easter Egg Hunt, we had Kate's first soccer practice and my parents arriving in town later.

I would imagine this is the first of many soccer practices.

Knocking down volcanoes.

And a ring pop for the win before bath.
Why?  Because.  #itseaster