Happy Easter!

By Sunday morning Leila had the Easter egg hunt concept down pat. After hunting eggs with her cousins the previous Sunday and again at a Church egg hunt the previous day, in her words:
"Neaster eggs - candy in there."
With no competition she found every egg in the living room. She did think that Molly might try to snag one or two, so she told her no occasionally for good measure.
She enjoyed opening the eggs to see what was inside. We went with coins, candy, and a few toys she already owns just to keep it interesting. She quickly shoved any candy into her mouth and enjoyed putting the coins in her piggy bank.
She also found baby sister's bunny and decided "I need it."
We managed to get an all smiling family picture!
As well as one with Nana & Papa
And Grandma & Grandpa.
Grandma had eggs for Leila to open too - some with money, some with candy...she got so excited at one point she stuffed a dime in her mouth - I think she was sure it was going to be a candy egg and wanted to make sure we weren't going to make her wait to eat it. Happy Easter everyone! And don't forget - it isn't actually about Easter egg hunts at all - Christ is risen! We are saved and eternally grateful.

Bright Sun Shiny Day

Saturday and Sunday were just beautiful. We took full advantage and got outside.

Today Leila and Paige are playing together again, this time at the picnic table.
This was a great time of sharing before someone decided to start using the stick...

Nesting

We finally got an ok family picture again...it has been forever since we tried and or succeeded.

Leila loves to pretend to leave to go get groceries or run errands and come back. She usually makes sure to have a purse and keys and either a stroller or the grocery cart.

This day she was also wearing her tutu and elmo socks. A wonderful fashion statement.

She will leave the room and say "Buh bye mama, see ya" and then turn around and come back in and say "Home now." I will ask her where she was and she will tell me that she got groceries. I will ask her what she got and it is usually milk, juice, raisins, bread, and sometimes cookies. She has an after nap routine of watching Caillou on the couch with a snack of crackers in a bowl and some water in a sippy cup.

The post title is nesting, and I did not take any pictures, but yesterday I had the need to do some more preparing for the baby and had Jeremy moving furniture all over. We put Leila's twin bed in her room along with the matching dresser and bedside stand, but still left her crib in there too. She has successfully taken four naps in her big girl bed, overall a pretty easy transition. In a couple of weeks she will sleep there at night too and we will put the crib in the baby's room. Right now the baby's room is pretty empty, just the dresser and a pack n play for Paige's naps, but will fill up soon with the crib and other stuff. We also moved the rocker into the family room and had to move everything around to make room for it and still have room for all of Leila's toys. I am very happy with the results and my nesting urges are satisfied for now! :)