We visited my parents over the weekend for a little Easter celebration. We got to spend a lot of time with Brian, Rebecca, and Lila too. We're really getting to know Lila recently, and she is such a sweet little girl :)
The boys even got to do an Easter egg hunt. You just can't have enough practice, right?
Coloring and decorating Easter eggs:
And a little soccer with Uncle Brian...
After we tucked Rudy in tonight, he called me back upstairs. I went into his room to see what he needed. The critically important thing he needed to tell me?!?
"This is a cockroach."
While I was upstairs, I checked in on the other one too. Brady has turned into quite the bookworm. We've even been letting him "stay up late" to read with a book light. We're actually just putting him to bed a bit earlier!
He's very interested in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid book. I think it's a little too hard for him and that he misses a lot of what's going on, but he loves it and hates to put it down. He didn't want to stop reading for dinner last night and had several small meltdowns about having to put his book away!
We took advantage of a beautiful first day of spring on Saturday by heading out to our favorite hike with friends. It was a great day for a hike, and the kids loved having their friends along! The waterfall was the biggest we've seen it.
Amazingly, no one fell in...
Rudy loves picking out his own outfits these days. His trademark already is the mismatched socks, which you unfortunately can't see behind the rain boots here. I don't even bother pairing his socks anymore, because he unmatches them to combine a white sock with a dark sock.
Look, Mama, they're blooming!
Brady has actually been writing notes and sentences. His is hooked up to the printer, so he's been able to print them too. We're working on getting his email set up so he can send and receive messages also!
We were running late this morning, so I pulled some clothes out of Brady's dresser without much thought to the date. As soon as he left for school, I sat down at the computer and realized what day it was and had a major mom-guilt moment...What kind of mother was I, to send him to school with no green on St. Patrick's Day? Especially since he talked all day yesterday about how he HAD to wear green today.
I felt so bad that Rudy and I drove the sweatshirt in to school. Crisis averted! We at least covered ourselves by having lunch with Brady, which was a nice treat for everyone.
This afternoon, the boys had art class and then we had a traditional St. Patrick's Day dinner of Chinese food. Odd. Our neighborhood has monthly dinners at the clubhouse, and tonight was a Chinese buffet. Guess we'll have our corned beef tomorrow :)
We have a long way to go with the yard work, but we got a small start last weekend. We raked all the old, dead grass out of the front yard and spread new seed and fertilizer. We put the kids to work relocating the raked up mess. They look miserable, don't they?!?
Rebecca came up for a visit last week with Lila.
We told Brady in the morning that he should have a "surprising" day, but didn't tell him anything else. He noticed that I didn't pack his lunch bag in his backpack, so he thought the surprise was that he got to buy lunch.
Rebecca met him at school and they had lunch in the cafeteria. Then, he got to play hooky for the rest of the day and come home. The boys were both thrilled. They were very gentle with Lila. They'd play with her for 10-15 minutes at a time, but the real draw was Aunt Rebecca; they kept her busy playing with them (which was fine, because then I got Lila to myself)!
They got out the spin art set, which made a big glittery mess...but they had fun :)
I'm not sure what's going on in this conversation, but it looks quite serious!
