Saturday - Painting on the Patio

My vision of small children taking their messy crafts outside has finally become a reality. Thank goodness for the patio!

Lia was very excited to paint with everyone. I found these water containers that don't spill when tipped over. This a very good thing for the 2 year old artist who paints along side her big brother. Lia managed to get paint all over her body!

Emily is still making good use of her quality art kit. Yeah Nana! And by the way... she painted on the big table away from the amateurs.

It looks like he is smirking here but David really enjoyed painting outside. He's just didn't like being interrupted by my picture taking. Awww... Mom!

Garden of the Good Shepherd

The season of Easter is 50 days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost. We got this great calendar to count the days. Each day has a sticker to put on the mural and corresponding scripture to read to help us learn more about our faith. The stickers are illustrated by Tomie DePaola, which is fun because we have read so many of his books and are familiar with his style. Emily gets so excited about stuff like this and tells me... "Mommy, I just can't wait. I want to do the whole thing right now!"

No Daddy! It's my Bed... Not Yours!

So Chris has come up with unique ways to torture all of his children... Now that I have this blog, I can document in words and pictures, said abuse. So here is how our evenings with Lia go. Once little Lia is bathed, and in her jammies, she comes into the living room to say "I love you Daddy, good night!" and get a kiss. Then Daddy says, "Lia, I'm really tired. I'm going to go lie down in your bed. You have such a nice bed." Then he goes into her room and lies down on her bed and proceeds to snore ovnoxiously. She gets very upset about this. First she tells him, "Daddy, it's not your bed! It's Lia's bed." Which progresses to, "Daddy, get out of my bed!" And then, she'll try to push him out or in this picture, pull him out by his legs! He'll play along sometimes and let her pull him out... or he'll ask for more kisses to get out of her bed. Shameless!

Little trip down memory lane....When David and Emily were little, he would turn into an Asian tiger (all those trips to China) and demand kisses to turn back into Daddy again. Of course, they loved that game too.

Thank you Steven and Stacey!

We haven't given out the awesome lollipops yet... but the first part of your gift has been a hit!

Thank you Nana and Grandpa!

I can assure you, it was not easy to look at this adorable package and not want to rip into it.... However, we waited very patiently till Easter and were thrilled by these adorable cookies!

Yum!

Happy Easter!

It is 11:00pm... not quite Easter but close enough! The kids are in bed and the Resurrection Cookies are in the oven.... I'm not sure how these will turn out b/c my egg whites and sugar did NOT beat into stiff peaks... but we are hoping they will still turn out all right in the morning. The Easter story and process of making the cookies was the important part... The recipie said to turn the oven off and tape it shut (like the tomb)... Emily added a sticky note which reads, Do Not Open! We are hoping for hollow empty cookies in the morning. We'll see!



Here is a sweet sweet video of my boy reading The Glory Be from his beloved prayer book. Thank you Godmother Peg! It is very difficult to believe this boy ever had a speech problem. It has certainly corrected itself.

Good Friday Egg Hunt

The kids had Good Friday off from school and a friend of mine invited us to a cascarone or confetti egg hunt. We've never been to one of these and it sounded like a lot of fun!

The eggs were hidden all over the park and the kids quickly gathered them all up. This was very fun for Lia... though she wasn't as fast as the big kids. She only got 4 or 5 eggs. That was okay because after the eggs were collected the real fun of breaking them over each others heads began!

Sister gets brother.

Cute boy gets Lia.

David gets Mommy!

Wow! Look at all that confetti!

Fun!