Poor Allyson!

Poor Allyson is having allergies hit her hard...again. She's on the full dose of Zyrtec, baths every night and eye drops a few times a day. Luckily she lets me do the eye drops fairly well, she'll even ask for them. Anyway, as you can tell, this was after her bath and she woke up worse this a.m. I think this wind isn't helping. I feel bad for her but I think she's going to learn to live with it, it doesn't seem like it's going away anytime soon.

A Busy Easter Weekend

We had a very busy fun weekend. We started Saturday by going to our churches Easter egg hunt. It was unique in that we dropped 10000 eggs from a helicopter for the kids to gather. The girls had a blast. They sat with the Easter bunny, did an egg toss, got their face painted and then were pelted with eggs! Ally didn't like the helicopter egg drop so much. She sat in my moms lap on the sidelines. One egg landed right in between her neck and shoulder and stuck there. I guess she didn't bat and eyelash. There was an estimated 400+ people there. It was definilty packed.

After that, we dropped Rylee off at Nana and Papa's house and took the girls to the mall carnival. They had so much fun. Ally liked the simple rides but Emily has changed a lot in the past few years. Her favorite ride was the one where you go in and stand against the wall and the room spins really fast and it suctions you to the wall. She thought that was great. She actually wanted to ride some of the bigger rides but she wasn't tall enough. That was a huge step for her. They were very tired by bedtime!

Sunday we woke up nice and early. Mike and I both had to be to church a little extra early than we normally do. So we gave the girls a "look" at their easter baskets before we ran out the door for church. After church we had nana, papa and grammy over for a little bbq. We decided to make it low key

this year and it was really nice. They got to open their Easter baskets and grammy and nana even brought stuff over. They had a really nice day. I think it's a good thing that Emily has the week off, I think she'll need it.

On a side note, Rylee decided it was time to start sitting. She has to be put in that position but she does really well once she's there. I even let her take a bath with the other girls, I had to hang on to her most of the time but she really looked super proud to be one of the big girls. Also, I would have more pictures of the girls in their cute Easter dresses but to be honest, I've given up with expecting any super cute pictures as my girls ALL have the allergies and don't look all the well! Oh well, we'll just have to look all the cuter come Christmas!

No More Bouncer =(

Every since Rylee was first born, the bouncer has been the spot I put her when I'm getting ready in the morning. She's off the ground so Ally won't trip over her and most importantly, she stayed in there happily for the longest time. But, as the pictures show, she is getting too mobile for the bouncer. She flips herself over and often times has her knees on the ground and is leaning into it. If I buckle her up, the bouncer loses it's appeal to her. So, does anyone want a bouncer? If not, into the yard sale pile it goes!

She did find a new toy she likes though, a green necklace. She could play with that forever. Unfortunately it's also Allyson's favorite so while it keeps her happy for a long time, it's only as long as Ally will let her have it.

Ally and Bella's REAL Babies!

I thought I would post some more cute pictures. But on a side note, before I got Rylee her little table booster I didn't have a place to really feed her. So the other night we had the wilburn clan (2 adults 3 kids), the smiths, (2 adults 1 infant), and us, (2 adults 3 kids), over for pizza. There was almost no room anywhere. As I was looking for a place to plop down and feed Rylee, Jenn suggested Bella's baby stroller as a joke. I looked at it and then at Rylee and decided to give it a try. It actually was perfect! Anyway, afterward Bella and Ally were fighting over pushing their "live" baby. So we plopped Jackson in the other one and let them push them around where we were sitting. They looked SOOO proud of themselves. I told Jenn that we probably just started a new trend. Who wants to use baby dolls when you can use your sister or brother?

Earlier that night, Rylee and Jack were, Of course, getting cranky when dinner was being eaten. So we gave them each one of those baby biquits. Now, I should say that I have always had my gut tell me not to give them those, with all three of my girls. Between them I've probably only given each girl one. Anyway, I was desperate and hungry and it was noisy so I put her in her play station and gave her one. Within 10-15 seconds she had bit off a huge piece and it logged in her throat. I was trying to do the finger sweep but couldn't get it. Dr. Jed, our friend was hovering above me waiting to take over. I finally got it but it took a minutes. I just kept yelling that I couldn't get it over and over. It was probably one of the scariest things I've ever experienced. Lesson learned? Listen to instincts and don't EVER give those to your kids. I should have known better!