Easter catch up

We'll start the Easter celebration pictures with Eli's Easter party at school. Parents were allowed to come. It's so cute, seeing him sit at the table with his friends!

Finding eggs on the playground at school.....

Eli loves to climb in the pack and play with Analise...this time he brought the blanket to play Peek a Boo.

Sitting on the driveway working on our "projects." Eli ended up with a paint it yourself car and man (I thought he had picked up this package on the clearance rack at Target, by the time we got to the checkout he had carried it all around the store - turns out it was 9.99! Grrrrr. I made sure we painted the heck out of that thing). The pink basket is Analise's basket. We play outside pretty much every day after nap time.

Eli helping paint her basket. I made his basket when he was 6 months old.

The finished product! You can see my basket from when I was a kid in the background. Eli's is on the other side of that one.

Couldn't find the little wooden crosses like I put on Eli's, so I just wrote "He Is Risen" on the back.

Attempting to take Easter pics before church.

Dying eggs at mom's house after church. Aunt Laura was a big help!

Gotta love mom's '60's wallpaper!

Finding eggs in mom's backyard...Collin was sweet to do his egg hunt while I took a nap!

Laura and my awesome niece and nephew!

And finally, Mom with her grandkids! We tried to get a picture of the four of us, but it just wasn't working out! We also missed my brother, who couldn't come in this weekend.

Saturday Morning Biscuits

I love that Doug loves to cook and bake - he's really gotten into making biscuits from scratch.It's so cute how Eli is so interested in "helping." Love watching father and son have such fun moments on a Saturday morning!

Sweet Moment

Sunday morning. The usual hectic routine of getting both kids fed, diapered, dressed - myself fed, showered, dressed. Doug is on set up team this month, so he leaves early.

Analise was crying as I was rushing around the kitchen, getting her bottle ready to take to church. I asked Eli to go play with her (scary, as he could have taken that to mean, "go wrestle!"). I overheard him say, "Let's read a book," so of course I went over to the den....and there he was, "reading" her a book, saying sing-songy type phrases as he turned the pages. I actually took the time to grab the camera off the table and take a quick picture. So glad I did - this would be an easy moment to forget. And I want to remember it ALL.

Wordless Wednesday

Rolling Over

I need to post about little bit's milestones, so I don't forget! When I get back to working on her scrapbook, I can check the blog for these dates to make sure I get it right.

Earlier this week, Analise finally rolled over - consistently from back to tummy, and tummy to back! It was so fun seeing her figure that out. She loves rolling over - although, once she is on her tummy, she starts getting mad and doesn't always roll back over to her back, I have to go help her.

So, here is our documentation!

Getting started!

Getting some encouragement from big brother.

She was starting to roll over but was gripping her play mat, and Eli said, "no Analise!" and stopped her. I guess he didn't want her bringing her mat with her.

So, it didn't look like I was going to get a picture of the rolling over sequence.

Eli, on his own, decided to lay down by his sister. He can be really sweet to her!

Seriously one of my favorite pictures - I love how they are looking at each other!

Now she is trying to eat his fingers.

A little later, I discovered a caterpillar on our butterfly plant!

It was fun showing the caterpillar to Eli.

The azaleas were so pretty all in bloom - so I tried to get a good picture of Eli in the flowers. In this picture, I was trying to get him to put his hands in his pockets. When I asked him, "where are your pockets?," this is his response..."Pockets?"

Which then turned to, "peek a boo," so I admitted defeat and we went inside!

Oh, how I love my children!!!!!

water fun with our neighbor friends

I absolutely love having two neighbors so close with children so close in age to my own! And they are really cool, nice neighbors too!

After nap time (you know, that time of day that DRAGS, everyone gets kind of cranky, you tend to look at the clock a LOT waiting on Daddy to get home) - we headed over to Beth's backyard to play with the water table.

I tried a second time to make fishing poles, and this time they were much more successful. Used already cute dowel rods, stronger magnets, fishing twine, and packing tape to secure it all together. Maybe packing tape wasn't the best choice, but I was in a hurry, and it seemed workable at the time.

The magnets started falling off eventually, so we used some super glue to keep them going. The kids loved trying to "fish" for the letters.

Analise hung out on the blanket with Beckett.

See, she wasn't the only baby there!

Beth has an "official" water table, which they loved, but they really loved the big tub of water below. (camera strap got in the way of this picture). Notice the shirt was already off?

Eventually more clothes came off, and all three climbed in the big tub! They were having a blast.

Thanks for the fun times, friends!