Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head/In Bed

Kyla falls asleep with her new umbrella that she got for Easter. We turned it upside down to be her Easter basket and added a new outfit and books to complete the present. Clearly, she loves it.

Easter Sunday

We celebrated the resurrection of Jesus in the usual way:

A big feast! Kids got their own table this year, in the kitchen for easy clean up. Not much of an issue though, as hardly any food was eaten here. They were too excited to keep playing! All five girls are within 20 months of each other.

The grown ups crowded in a bit and enjoyed a potluck dinner. Baby Isaiah gets to hang with the big people.

The kids got to hunt eggs in the backyard. There were many photographic moments—and we parents photographed all of them! There were no pictures of the grown up’s egg hunt, but I will say Dwayne is a genius egg-hider! The two plates of brownies were fought over for over an hour before Dwayne was the loser. (It wasn’t about winning, was it Keith? You just needed to make sure Dwayne didn’t win!)

He is risen indeed!

Be Very, Very Quiet…I’m Hunting

EASTER EGGS! Our church had a giant Easter egg hunt and Dwayne and I brought the kids for their first public hunt. Each girl found two eggs, both stuffed full of candy.

In truth, Piper only picked up one egg and was so focused on finding out what was in it that she ignored the rest of the hunt. A little girl who had a basket full of eggs was enticed by her father to put one in Piper’s basket to “share”.

Kyla is quite pleased with her loot!

Showing Daddy what they got.

Mama got her face painted in the bunny fashion of the day. Wesley was content in his sling.

The girls ate all their candy on the way home. Kyla decided that she had too much and felt sick. She says she won’t eat so much candy at one time again. How long will that lesson stick?

Easter Eggs

Earning the  Purple Heart of Motherhood today, I dyed Easter eggs with Kyla and Piper (with Wesley strapped to me for an extra long nap).  We did take advantage of a sun break to do it outside, which was fortunate as Kyla spilled the first cup, Piper the second, and it was a race to dump out the third.  [Note to fellow dyers: the Paas classic kit had great stickers, excellent yellow dye, good blue dye and extremely poor pink dye.]

I read a tip about putting the eggs into whips to protect the eggs from toddler hands.  And it worked.  Piper only cracked the eggs after she took them out of the whip!

 

Smocks and sisters.

A Problem?

Piper found Daddy’s empty Mikes Hard Limeade bottle and carried it upstairs to fill it up with water. She brought it downstairs to make the Berenstein Bear video into happy hour.

This is Piper a year and a half ago (July 2008) on our family camping trip, sitting on Aunt Julie’s lap.

Painting

Daddy was charmed to come home to the girls painting pictures. He took some cute pictures (and he shuddered just thinking about cleaning up the girls. The paint clean up was pretty simple.)

Another mom had the great idea of squirting out the paint onto an old cookie sheet—instant palette and easy clean up!

Grandma and Grandpa Come to Visit!

Dwayne’s parents are visiting stateside for almost two months, and we get them for just over a week. Dick and Darlene haven’t seen Piper since she was 6 months old and of course, hadn’t gotten to meet Wesley yet. Grandma braided Kyla’s hair even better than Daddy does, Piper took an immediate shining to “Papa”, and Wesley slept indiscriminately in any arms that would hold him.