Standing

Okay, so this post is a little more blog worthy than the previous one.

Claire has been pulling herself up to standing position and last week I walked in to her room to find this:





I couldn't believe it! She is getting too big too fast. We sure have fun with this little girl!

Cream puffs

Since I have been lacking cool things to blog about as of late, you get to read this...

I crave desserts all the time, and lately, I crave cream puffs. So I made some on Saturday for the first time and they were sooo good. We ate most of them on Saturday, and on Sunday there were 8 left when we came home from church. As most of you probably are, we are always starving right when we come home from church and needed a little snack to tie us over until Sunday dinner was ready (in 20 min). So after we jumped out of the van, trampled over each other to get into the kitchen, I pulled the cream puffs out of the fridge and 4 sets of hands immediately attacked the puffs. It was so funny. We were all still in our Sunday clothes with our shoes on, Claire was screaming in her car seat on the floor just inches from our feet, while we are feeding our faces and fighting over the last cream puff, which I was nice enough to split with Nate. Cassie came out with 1, Dylan came out with 2, and Nate and I each 2 1/2. All of this was consumed in a matter of about 30 seconds.

Today, I went to the store to buy ingredients to make an Eclair cake for FHE. It was delicious, and there is still some in the fridge.

That's all.

My cool bike

With the nice weather coming and going, Dylan has been spending more time outside on his bike. He LOVES to be outside and his bike has become his new favorite thing. He really really really wanted me to take some pictures of him on his bike, so here you go...

He feels so big without his training wheels. This bike was given to us by someone in our ward and it is way too small for him now. He is so funny to watch on it because he has to pedal so fast to keep it going and his little legs just keep pedaling and pedaling. It also doesn't have brakes so he just sort of jumps off when he wants to stop. One of the ER directors gave us her son's old bike, which is probably 3 times the size of Dylan's little bike (should have put a picture on here), but he won't have anything to do with it. So for now, he is going to get lots of exercise with all the pedaling he does.

My princess

This is what can happen when Cassie goes missing for 2 minutes...

It's my make-up. Only she got way more on the bathroom floor than on her face. Silly girl. I sure do love her.

5 lbs

is the amount of weight I think I have gained this last week. Between the 3 egg hunts my kids did, pre-school parties, the candy my kids got from the nice ladies at church, the Easter bunny, Easter dinner, and the huge chocolate bundt cake I made (for no reason at all, and then ate more than half of it myself), I am not feeling too hot. Everywhere I look, candy sits. And then it makes its way into my mouth. It needs to stop and I think the only way it will stop is if I hurry and eat it all and then it won't be there to stare at me anymore. That's all.

We had a great Easter weekend. We managed to get the egg coloring in on Saturday morning (in our pj's, in case you were wondering. That is kind of how I roll as of late). The kids were very excited since this was their first time doing this. I had good intentions the last couple of years. In fact, the egg coloring kit was the kit I bought to use 2 years ago, and never got around to it. Oops.




I think Nate had the best looking egg, and he was very excited to show it off. And yes, by the look of his hair, he may have just rolled out of bed too. Come on, it's a Saturday morning folks!

Dylan kept sneaking glances at his dad's eggs and then would try to copy them without us knowing what he was doing. It was cute.

Of course, Cassie has a pink egg. And awesome hair...

And more cute hair to show off while eating her peeps from the Easter bunny Sunday morning...

Playing with a transformer he got from the bunny...

After church, the kids and I went to some friends house for dinner and an egg hunt. Nate had to work and he said a 2 year old boy came into the ER because his bunny rabbit bit him. It was pretty funny I guess because it was Easter and all. How often does a kid get bit by his pet rabbit? And for it to happen on Easter? haha. Poor kid.

One sad Cassie. The big kids kept getting the eggs before Cassie could get to them...

Dylan was kind enough to take some of his eggs and hide them for her to get. What a nice brother. After all the eggs were found, everyone was to look in their green eggs for a big prize....

And who should get it? None other then Dylan!!!! Yahoo. $5!!! He was so excited.

He already went with Daddy to Walmart and bought himself a baseball to use with his new glove. But not before a bit of an argument about tithing. He did NOT want to give some of his money to Heavenly Father. But it is all good now.

And one grumpy Claire. She did not like being out in the cold.

Just about...

Claire is just about crawling, I can't believe it! It seems like she is moving around so much, just not crawling yet (which is FINE by me). She goes from laying down, to sitting up, to rolling around, to getting on her hands and knees, to sitting again, and then she does this too...

And this..

And one more...



She is loving this mobility and figuring things out. Yesterday I was holding her and she started giggling so loud. I had no idea what she was laughing at because the kids weren't around. I then noticed her looking down at her little feet and she was wiggling her toes and laughing every time they wiggled. It was so cute.

The one thing I wish she would figure out is how to lay back down in her crib after she sits up. I have never had this happen with my other kids. I will lay her down in her crib, she sits up, starts crying and won't lay back down. I have found her many times asleep in her crib while she is still practically sitting up. Her poor little body and head are all hunched over looking really uncomfortable.

Oops, this was supposed to be a quick little post. We just love this drooly little girl so much!

(even if she has the biggest baby comb-over ever!)

Forts

Dylan is obsessed with making forts. He can make a fort out of anything he gets his hands on and has made some pretty creative ones too. Even when we go visit friends, Dylan always ends up gathering almost every toy they have and builds a fort. I am not sure if my friends appreciate this too much, so we have made a rule that forts are only allowed at home. Here are some of the forts I have taken pictures of these last couple of weeks:

And I am not too sure what this one is:

And when it is time to clean up, he has been very good at listening and putting everything away.

Hey, it keeps him busy for hours and he loves it!