California Dreamin'

 

 

Easter Egg Hunt

I totally forgot that we had video clips from the church Easter egg hunt on Saturday. I compiled them and added a few from around the house. When she's not hunting eggs, she's mumbling sections of the alphabet (usually it's "b, c, d..."), in and out of her chair, or getting excited over her dad coming home (the very end.) The weather was nice today! 52 degrees and sunny...whoohoo! Addie and I are both worn out from playing. I think I'll sleep very well tonight.

Denial is Not Just a River

 

Maybe if we keep pretending that it's spring it will come? Notice the pile of unmelted snow behind the cute summery table and chairs?

Happy Easter!

 

We had a great Easter Sunday here in good ole' Iowa, despite the fact that it snowed pretty constantly ALL day long. It was light snow though, so minimal accumulation. I thought about having a neighbor come out and take a family Easter photo of us standing in it wearing our spring clothes, but didn't follow through. Church was great today, naps were great, and then we enjoyed good food with friends that was great (Anthony grilled...I just did veggies, so I think I can compliment it without seeming full of myself!) Grilled pork chops, asparagus, roasted potatoes, rolls, and fruit salad. If spring won't come, we can at least eat like it's here!

The only not so great thing of the day were pictures...but here are a few of the ones I could rationalize were okay. Without a little sunshine outside, the lighting in our house is just not very good for pictures & Anthony had the camera set on something wierd so most of the Addie pictures came out blurry. She loved the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse book that I put in her Easter basket. The picture is a little blurry, but she was so excited about it that I thought I'd post it anyway.

Yes, I actually posted a chubby faced picture of myself here...I really tried hard to look thin but the 28 week pregnant self simply cannot be hidden. Oh well! I've officially taken off my rings and put on my chubby finger rings. Yes, the swelling festival has begun and it's not even warm yet! Yikes. Hopefully it won't be too long after the baby comes when I get to switch things out again! It's so much nicer the second time around though because I have a decent array of shoes in the next size up! :) There's always a silver lining.

Funny Farm

Apparently something was really funny in my sleep last night because around 4 a.m. Anthony woke up to me shaking with laughter next to him. He said I giggled for almost 2 minutes straight. I can't say I'm sorry that I don't have a video or movie to post with this, but I sure wish I knew what was so funny! Pregnancy sure brings out the crazy in me...as if I needed help!

Silly Girl

I moved the basket in front of the television so she wouldn't watch with her face pressed to the screen. This is how she dealt with it! Seems like it would be easier to just move the basket.

Like Sands Through the Hourglass...

Today is our 6th wedding anniversary. Unfortunately, Anthony is working today but we did get to go out last night & celebrate. On our way out to dinner, Anthony said it seemed like we just got married. I told him that I could honestly say that when we were merely accumulating education, cars, vacation pictures, furniture, etc. Now that we are in the process of adding other PEOPLE to the mix it seems like we've been married at least six years! Here is the oldest picture I could find of us on this computer. There are wedding pictures on the one upstairs, but I think I posted them on last year's anniversary anyway. This one is from our first Christmas married (I think!) All of my pictures from when we were dating would have to be scanned & our scanner is broken. They have to be scanned because neither of us owned or even aspired to own a digital camera at the time! Wow...how life has changed!

I compiled a pretty uneventful mix of video clips I've taken of Addie this month. It's been a long month indoors. Even though there are places to go when the weather is bad, it's either been too cold even to walk from the car to a building or she's been sick, other kids have been sick, or I've been sick. So...I've totally thrown all my parenting rules to the dogs and there has been a LOT of TV. There has also been plenty of other original stuff like water painting, finger painting, coloring, parties for no reason, beading, playing in the clean laundry that mom is trying to fold, stickers, magnet books, puzzles and lot of singing and dancing. It just seems like there's been more TV on than ever too. In part of this video you can see we have also done some fort constructing which Addie loves.



In other news, Addie's recent entry to nursery at church has truly changed our Sundays. She absolutely loves it and is so happy on Sunday because of it. She's also getting relatively social which is fun to watch. Today when she saw her friend Grace, for the first time without me prompting her she waved and said "Hi Grace!" It was pretty cute to see the girls greet each other. Grace immediately pointed to Addie's shoes and they commenced in comparing their black Mary Jane shoes. Priceless!