Hart on my Sleeve: Easter and onward

From Easter 2010

We had a very quite Easter this year. I made my traditional Jello eggs and we filled plastic eggs with candy (we were smart and avoided the egg dye.) We had Devon's little friend around the corner over and they had an egg hunt in the house. They both throughly enjoyed it. The above picture is them waiting to go in the house to start hunting for eggs and that was the best shot I could get - they were being so silly. It was a very quite day and we throughly enjoyed it.

From April 2010

Abi is quite mobile - crawling, pulling, up and cruising along furniture - and I think we will see her first steps anytime now. I am looking forward to her first steps with excitement (maybe I won't have to pack her so much) and trepidation (she is already very very fast crawling walking I'm sure will be worse). With my luck she'll be fast but still whine for me to carry her. She is also starting to climb everything. The above picture was taken because I found her in the bucket of toys playing contentedly but I have no idea how she got in there. I also can no longer do the dishes, since Abi thinks the dishwasher door is a throne especially for her.

We recently took a trip to the Oregon coast. It was beautiful weather and the kids had a ball. Abi tried to eat as much sand as possible. She also scared away all the seagulls that came to close. Devon walked right in to the river outlet ($50 shoes and all) and we had to keep a close eye on him as he had no fear, even though the water was running fairly fast in a few spots. The picture below is of Darren trying to wear the dogs out by making them swim against the current to get their ball while Devon danced and screamed all around him. (and as a side note can I just say 2 kids and 2 dogs at the beach is exhausting).