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 E2 has a toy he likes to play with at his grandparents’ house.  It’s an old happy-meal-type toy that he calls “party ball” and puts inside small things he finds.  I think right now it has a rubber band and super ball.

 We love books!

  One of our family’s favorite outings is shopping at Target.  And if it’s close to meal time, the kids get especially excited- because it often means a hot dog combo!

  Typical for this time of year, the rain forced us to move the annual family egg hunt indoors.  K’s mom went all out with getting the eggs ready, the adults had a good time hiding them, and the kids found them in a fraction of the time it took us to hide them. The entire […]

  For the past 9 years we have gotten together with K’s parents the day before Easter so the kids can color eggs. (I don’t think we did when E1 was a few months old, but I don’t remember.)  What was once a fun activity has now become a grand production, since there are so many more […]

  E3 graciously said okay to posing for me, although she wasn’t all that interested.  Which meant, all her smiles were completely fake.  I tried all sorts of things, but this was really the only one that turned out at all.  This the one I said, “Whatever you do, don’t smile!” and pressed the shutter […]

  E4 is much happier- the tooth broke through on April Fools Day!  I can only feel it- she won’t let me look at it, much less get a picture of it.

  At bedtime, E3 usually gets ready for bed and then lies on the couch until I can get E4 asleep so we can do our bedtime ritual.  This time she was so run down from fighting off a cold she was asleep almost as soon as she lay down.  (I had to google “lay and […]

  E4 is now clapping her hands!  She loves to play Pat-a-cake with E3, and as soon as she starts saying the rhyme now E4 starts clapping too.  She also really likes “If You’re Happy and You Know It” and any other song I can think of that has clapping in it. I kept trying to […]

  E2 and E3 needed new summer-y shoes, and they really wanted to get Crocs like E1 has. They have a kiosk in the mall, so we spent the afternoon picking out colors, trying them on, and choosing buttons for fun.  Since K and I already each have a pair and E4 doesn’t need shoes yet, we […]