Easter Prep -

We have been very busy around here getting ready for Easter. 

The bunny ears are back out - 

 We went to Nana's for the annual Easter egg hunt and magic show.  Lucky for us Bonaparte was back this year, we love Bonaparte!!

 Luke even got to turn a balloon into a...

 dove ...

The lounging EB -

 Love to open our Easter baskets from Grandma & Grandpa -

 Even Ali girl -

 We painted Easter eggs with the neighbor kids -

 

 

 We got to see our friends from Dartmouth for an Easter party/egg hunt -

Just a lazy Saturday morning -

All about Daddy -

Luke recently had a unit in school on presidents.  He did a page on Obama and then a page on who he thinks should be president.  Very cute -

 

Paige had a Daddy day through school one night a couple weeks ago.  I clearly wasn't invited to daddy night but heard they sang songs and made sundaes from the ice cream bar and the teachers read each of the kids page about their daddy.  Here is Paige's.  She also drew a picture of her and daddy and made him a paper tie.  Lucky daddy!!!

This and That.....

Paige checking out some of her new clothes -

 Paige Marker-hands -

 Kids had a sleepover last weekend and some of the neighbor kids came down to play.  Now that the weather has turned, it is a revolving door, in and out kids here and there.  So many kids in our neighborhood, there is always someone outside for the kids to play with.

 By the end of the weekend, Paige was crashed out.  She went to the grocery with me and fell asleep on the way home holding her cookie -

 Got to have lunch with Jules last weekend in the city.  She was here for work.  Ali girl came too!

 Luke and Luca playing football -

 Paige went into the basement and came up with all kinds of fun things that where hiding in boxes down there -

 Paige found my IPOD and the Bose headphone one day.  She was in heaven -

April Fools -

Luke got to go to school with crazy hair today in celebration of April Fool’s Day!  His Mohawk and blue/green colored hair was pretty much gone when he came home.  “Me too” wanted to have color in her hair for school.  Lucky that Papa gave Paige hair color for Christmas…came in handy!

Luke - Art Show/New Career

Luke had an art show/fundraiser at school this past week.  Since Paige and daddy were at Paige's skating lesson, Luke, Ali and I went to check out his works of art.

So many pieces of artwork, made the halls so colorful.  Luke knew exactly which was his -

 Now that most of the snow is gone and the weather is FINALLY warming up a bit we have been enjoying some outside time.  The kids love having a real driveway and sidewalks to ride their scooters and bikes.  Paige and I made a road with chalk one day.  We put in a stop sign in the road.  When Luke came home from school he was excited to join in but wasn't diggin' the fact that he has to stop at a stop sign so he fixed that by making a shortcut with no stop sign.  Very clever Luke!

BREAKING NEWS!  After years of wanting to be a fire ranger when he grows up, Luke has switched career paths.  He informed us this week that he is going to become an author because in his words "I like to make books better than I like animals" Sounds like solid reasoning to me! He does love to make books.  He cranks out 4 or 5 a week mostly about animals but he does all the drawings and captions himself. I hate to throw them away but we could never keep them all, too many!

Ali - 4 Months

Paige and I took Ali to her 4 month apt today.  And it was a good thing she had lots of support because she got 4 shots and an oral vaccine.  YIKES! 

Our big lady is leveling out. Her stats are below:
Weight 14.12lbs - 64%
Height 25 - 75%
Head 16 1/8 - 63%

Duel band-aids :(


Ali's newest favorite thing to do is blow raspberries.  She loves this, I will post a video as it is quite funny.  No rolling yet but you can tell she wants to, just a bit hard getting that big belly in motion.  Still a good little pumpkin.  She is very agreeable and goes with the flow of what is going on in our crazy house.  She is a perfect third child!

It is pretty embarrassing when you go to a play date and one of the moms has an 8 month old that is the same size as Ali.  I spend half my free time running around to different stores exchanging her clothes for bigger sizes...but we love our big girl!!!

Here are the highlights from the month -

Peek Week -

Paige takes a little creative movement/ballet class on Saturday mornings.  This week was "peek week" so we got to go into the studio and see what the little ballerinas have been working on.  It was very cute.  Paige thinks this is the real deal like she is going to be cast in the Nutcracker.  She bounces around the house practicing her moves.