The Caterpillar to Butterfly Game

Here is a cute video of the kids playing the game Conall made up "The Caterpillar to Butterfly" game. They played this over and over again today.

Caitlin Riding Her Tricycle

Caitlin has really gotten good at riding her tricycle -- she is pedaling all over the place now. She tells me "Mommy, I a big girl now cause I can ride my bicycle".

Second Sleepover for the Boys

Conall and Kanton had their first sleepover at our house on Conall's birthday this year. Then, they tried a sleepover at Kanton's, but by 10:30 Kanton was asleep and Conall was ready to come home. Last night, the boys had their second sleepover at our house.

Conall and Kanton have been asking to have a sleepover since both boys got good report cards around Easter. Conall got to "earn" inviting Kanton over if he could keep green on his behavior light at school on Thursday and Friday. He's been having trouble getting green since they did the Kindergarten standardized tests and made it to orange on Wednesday. Conall cleaned his room Wednesday, got green at school Thursday and Friday, and helped me clean the rest of the house yesterday after school. He even started helping his uncooperative sister with cleaning her room! So, Conall got a sleepover last night.

The boys were most excited about having daddy (Mr. Stu to Kanton) tell them ghost stories before bedtime. He scared them with at least one story and Conall was up for awhile afterward saying he was "scared". I brought a sleepy Inkspot into the room and he climbed between both boys and helped settle them down with his purring. The boys both slept all night and were up at 6 a.m. this morning.

Conall and Kanton wanted to have pancakes and watch Ponyo this morning. They ate a few bites of pancakes and moved on to "the caterpillar to butterfly" game. They played and drew pictures until it was time for Kanton to go home and get ready for soccer.

Conall and Kanton "eating" pancakes -- they only ate a few bites and then were back to playing

Na Na's Rosebush

As most of you know, it has become a family tradition for us to take a picture of the kids in front of Na Na's yellow rosebush every year. We started when Conall was a baby and have continued every year.
The rosebush only blooms once a year.
This year, Na Na and Po Po were out of town when it bloomed. Aunt Megan kept an eye on it for us and let us know when it was blooming. We hopped in the car the next day for a quick trip to Na Na's and got some photos of the kids in front of the rosebush.

One of my favorites

One of the best of the two together

Silly girl

This is sooooo Conall and Caitlin!

Being silly

One of the funnier pics -- that look on her face and his eyes -- funny!

Easter Pics

Daddy helping Conall dye eggs -- I was helping Caitlin but paused to take a few photos

Dyeing eggs at Pop Pop's

Daddy helping Conall dye eggs

The baskets the bunny left for the kids. Aunt Amy and I decorated Caitlin's last year.

Caitlin getting into the chocolate

Caitlin in the chocolate again.

Caitlin showing off the eggs she found.

Conall and his three dyed eggs. He's so proud he found the ones he wanted!

The kids hunting for Easter eggs in their Jammie's and tennis shoes. They DID not want to wait to get dressed.

The Easter bunny left Conall some seed packets.

Na Na helping Caitlin "hunt" eggs at her house

Conall hunting eggs at Na Na's.

Conall with his "loot".

Po Po reading Easter stories to Caitlin.

Na Na's bunny cake -- she made it with chocolate instead of coconut because the kids won't eat coconut. They aren't spoiled, are they?

Neighborhood Egg Hunt

Last Saturday, we went to our neighborhood egg hunt. We love going every year because it is a small egg hunt. We know a lot of the kids and parents. The big kids help the little ones out. There aren't any lines and every kid walks away with some candy. And, you hunt the eggs, put them in your basket, go open the eggs and get the candy/prize certificate out of the egg and then return the eggs to the organizers for use again next year. It is so much more enjoyable than the citywide or large church egg hunts!

Before the hunt -- this is just the basketball court

Conall and Caitlin getting ready for the hunt

Ready, set ... Conall with Kanton and August (boys next door)

The boys and Caitlin ready to go

Daddy was still in Atlanta on Saturday morning, so Aunt Amy went with us this year. We had a wonderful time. The kids used some plastic baskets I got them the day before for the hunt, instead of their nice "Easter bunny" baskets. They were able to fill them up without spilling too many eggs and we didn't have to worry about the nice baskets getting dirty. The egg hunt didn't have as many participants this year as in past years, possibly due to the cold, cloudy weather. That meant lots of eggs for every kid -- you'll see what I mean from the pictures -- our baskets were overflowing and there were still eggs on the ground! Every child had the same experience, which is so much better than not enough eggs for every child!

Caitlin and mommy picking up eggs

Mommy helping Caitlin find eggs

Conall with an overflowing basket

Emptying the eggs to get the candy out and return the eggs

Caitlin with her first piece of candy