After taking pictures of the kids last night I had left my point-n-shoot camera where Solvei could reach it, I know because she brought it to me this morning. She is such a cheese – she gave me the camera, pointed at it, then pointed at herself. And of course what one gets, they all want, so here are pictures of all the kids from this morning.
They are definitely Nate’s children. All the kids LOVE popcorn.
We got an air-pop popcorn popper (say that three times fast) and I am really glad we did, it makes much better popcorn than the microwave bags ever could. We ate dinner a little early today so when we were watching cartoons with the kids this evening we made popcorn.
I think it’s funny how the big kids, while still eating popcorn, are pretty fixated on the TV, but the little kids are fixated on the popcorn bowl. 😉
This is what the Easter beagle…I mean bunny, has left for us.
As the kids were coming down the stairs I was hoping they wouldn’t notice where some of the eggs were hidden and go for the baskets.
It sort of worked for the big kids but Solvei went straight for the eggs and didn’t care about the other stuff. I was able to show her how to put what she had found into her basket and she (and Nels) thought that was VERY interesting.
It’s a good thing the Easter bunny puts all the eggs for the big kids where Solvei and Nels can’t reach.
This was Solvei and Nels’ first Easter that they have been old enough to hunt for eggs. Solvei got so excited!
She picked up most off the eggs, but Nels didn’t really notice because he figured out he could open the first one he found.
They are so much fun to watch!
They are pretty good at sharing and “making sure the other has some too” – as long as they have some first.
When all were found, Solvei and Nels decided to trade eggs for a few minutes.
This was the first that all four of them have been exposed to the delight that is Cadbury Creme eggs (I think only Saedi’s had them before and that was a while ago). Solvei and Nels both tried to eat theirs with the wrappers still on (I know it’s candy just let me eat it!). Just look at the haul our kids came away with, and we only got two small bags of candy for them.
Superheroes are great, and I happen to be the mother of three.
Gavin brought me one of his blankets today to tie around his neck, so that he could play superheroes. As soon as Solvei and Nels saw him wearing his blanket, they each brought me one to put on them.
Saedi’s school had a family movie night today and we decided to go. They showed Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Actually Saedi got invited to go with the neighbors, so I brought Gavin, Solvei and Nels and we sat all together. The kids had a lot of fun.
I love it when I’m busy doing things and I can walk into the playroom to find the kids playing so nicely together.
The kids got a “magic set” as a kids meal toy with dinner from Jack-in-the-Box tonight. It has a magic wand, magician style, some fake cards and instructions for a really lame card trick. The cards will shortly “mysteriously disappear” but the wands are fun.
Solvei went around magic-ing everything…
including Daddy…
for probably half an hour before she finally let Nels have a turn.
Gavin asked me if I wanted to try his. So I tried to make the dishes clean themselves and Gavin disappear, neither of which worked. I gave him back his wand and said I think it might be broken. He told me, “It’s not broken, it’s made of plastic. It’s just a toy!”
I LOVE Solvei’s face in this one…
I now see many declarations of “Expelliarmus” in my future.
Over the last three days the cherry blossom trees all over town have come into full bloom. This is the one in our front yard.
Because of all this warm weather we spent several hours outside playing today. The neighborhood kids were playing outside as well. Saedi and her friends spent some time picking the blossoms off her friend’s tree and collecting them in a basket.
The rest of the playtime involved more rocks, bike riding, general kid antics and more pictures that are too cute to keep to myself. Everyone had fun.
We are big fans of Woot at our house (woot.com that is). We have ordered many things from this site. They have a subsection of commerce dedicated to shirts, which is where we’ve made a large portion of the orders we have placed. One of the shirts that I have from here (graphic shown) is called I Wish…
At naptime today Gavin was looking at my shirt and asked what the elephant was doing. I told him that it was supposed to be wishing on the star, so he asked what it was wishing for. Not really knowing, I asked him what he thought the elephant would wish for. (Are you ready for this?)
His response was, “A pogo stick.”
After giggling, I asked him why an elephant would wish for a pogo stick. He said it would help him reach more apples on the tree to eat.
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