Easter 2010

We started our Easter weekend out by dying eggs on Saturday. Mike had the girls dye 3 dozen eggs. We now have a lot of hard boiled eggs in our fridge. Good thing Emily and Ally like them. The girls had a lot of fun mixing the different colors together and dipping the eggs. Overall, they did pretty good not breaking any shells.
Rylee had a lot of fun just stirring the colors, she got a little messy but it kept her busy.
Ally loved to let the eggs soak a long time. She would roll it around forever. She had the brightest eggs in the bunch.
Here's the loot Easter morning. They all got glittery tattoos, they love tattoos right now.


Nathan had a little bit of a rough day. He was kind of cranky that morning. I kept trying to get a picture of him with his basket without his pacifier but he would have none of it. I was lucky he let me put him down at this point.
He loves his bunny! He is very much a cuddly baby. He likes to put soft things up to his face.
This is their pre-rain Easter egg hunt. After breakfast we told the girls to go upstairs so we could hide the eggs then when we called them down Mike was going to let Rylee get a headstart, then Ally then Emily. But as we opened the door, it was starting to sprinkle with dark clouds quickly rolling in. So I told Mike to let them loose. They all got a pretty good amount of eggs.


The girls in their Easter dresses before church.
All the kids in their Easter clothes.

Happenings

Nothing too exciting is happening in our lives right now but it's super busy. Mike and I were just discussing how four kids can really consume all your life. We love each minute with our kids but it is WORK! So here are a few highlights right now, boring to you as they may be! The above picture is of Ally learning how to change Nathan. She's probably the most into him right now. She insists on sitting next to him in the car so she can give him what he needs and loves to hold him as much as possible. She also hugs his poor little head all of the time, but he honestly doesn't seem to mind it too much. She definitely is my little mommy of my girls.

Emily just got awarded Top Reader and Powerful Thinker at school. She was so proud and was thrilled to receive a Baskin Robbins coupon for an ice cream cone. She's doing so well in school, it comes so natural for her. Her teacher said she can read 208 words a minute and at this point in 1st grade she supposed to read 24. Her teacher said she's the top reader in all of first grade and she's pretty sure 2nd grade at least. She loves her books, just like mommy! She also does really well in math and comprehension. She needs to work on her handwriting but if you look at my handwriting and Mike's, I'm not sure how much hope she has!
Allergy season has hit our household again. I'm so thankful Rylee doesn't seem to have allergies. Emily also has them but not like Ally. So between Zyrtec, eye drops, benadryl, and her nebulizer, we're keeping her in check. It was funny, the other night her nebulizer broke and lets just say she wasn't heartbroken over it. Then she realized that Nana had an extra and the fun didn't last. She really doesn't like doing them and it's been a year now that we've been on them. I don't really see her getting off of them in the next year. I can tell when she's missed one. So we'll plug on keeping her breathing well...it's kind of important, right?

Rylee is potty training and doing amazing. On her third morning I was taking a shower and comes in asking for help because she had gone "number 2". I couldn't imagine that she went on her own the first time but sure enough she did, and she did it again later. I'm a firm believer in waiting until they're ready, it's so much easier. She did prove her newness on potty training when we went to Walmart. I was, of course, alone with all four and she went on the floor in the middle of the store. Thankfully I had wipes in my cart.

Nate is such a happy little guy. He's almost 5 mo. and is almost 13lbs! He's gained almost 2 lbs. in a month. That's huge for him. I really think nursing him wasn't giving him the calories he needed. He also loves him some bottle! Too bad it's so darn expensive.

Mike and I will be celebrating 9 years on Wednesday. It's gone by so fast. I can't wait to see what our future holds together!