Easter and Singing

Finally getting around to putting up the pictures from Easter, sorry for the delay, life is busy when you're chasing those small animals we call children all over the place. The kids had a very fun Easter this year, complete with dying Easter eggs, playing with cousins, and dressing up in spiffy new outfits.

First up is the fashion show, James is here sporting his new hat and dressed to impress his whole nursery class (so yeah, he really impressed those two other toddlers).

The girls were very excited for their fancy hats that they fitted out with ribbons with a little help from Grandma.

Cousins Marshall, Coen, and Atticus came over for Easter time fun. Atticus and James teamed up for some double little-boy cuteness. They're a year apart (James just turned two, Addy just turned one), but somehow they managed to be close enough in size that they occasionally interchange clothes. They're about the best pals two little cousins could be.

Laine and Eve did some egg hiding with candy filled plastic eggs. All the cousins had a ball searching those out, then piling up on each other to chomp down on chocolatey goodness.

The chocolate always seems to induce silly faces.

Then they all piled into the back yard to dye some real eggs.

It was a fun day all around, we even got to have a few minutes after the sugar high wore off to talk about Jesus and the reason we get to celebrate.

Laine followed up the Easter excitement with a musical program at school the following week. They performed three times, once for the school, once for the parents, and one more for the incoming kindergarten class for next year. There was a lot of cuteness and Laine did a great job.

Here's video of one of the songs, sorry for the audio quality, it sounded a lot better in person.

One final bonus video:

James got a new pair of shoes for his birthday. When he first put them on, he was so excited he spontaneously burst into dance, which his sisters quickly picked up on and started doing too. I only caught a little of it on the camera, but I thought it was worth sharing.

He's Two Now

The little man of the family had a big day recently, he is now officially big enough to use more than one finger when he tells people his age. This presents a little bit of a challenge for him, since he seems to only be able to show one, three, or four fingers at a time, but hasn't gotten the hang of holding down the right number of fingers for two. So he usually announces "TWO!" while holding up three or four fingers when someone asks his age.

We spent most of the day for his birthday down at the Gateway. First we ate lunch at the Dodo restaurant where James had an awesome blueberry cake for his dessert.


Then we headed over to the Children's Museum where James had the most fun of his whole little life.

We finished the outing off with some really good cookies and milk, then James thought it would be a really good idea to run out into the fountains and get himself drenched to cool off from the sweltering 50 degree weather. I carried the shivering boy back to the car as he murmured "Fountain get me! Fountain get me!" over and over.