Happy Easter!

It has been made clear to me that I am in desperate need of a new camera. Using my iPhone for all of my picture taking needs is getting a bit hard. It looks here that we had a very blurry, washed out and dim Easter. But you should look past the bad pictures and see that a good time was had by all parties involved.

Steph and Me. Church- We look so young and fabulous. No Really, we do.

AJ and only half of his Dad.

Egg Hunting in the backyard.

Fire Truck toy from his basket.

Mia hamming it up.

Easter Egg Hunt At Church

We arrived.

We colored.

We listened.

We crafted.

We hunted.

We found! We celebrated!

April Has Been Fickle

The weather has been pretty craptastic here in the land of AJ. We did have some nice days, but the rain has been falling along with the temperatures. As we were dyeing and glittering eggs today, we watched the lawn fill up with water and pretty soon we were looking at a real mess. I can't imagine that hiding the glitter eggs in Albandia Swamp will work out too well.

Not to worry. We were blessed with many nice days that I was too busy to blog about so now that I'm in need of nice warm sunny memories to boost my swampy mood- you too will benefit from a little April Recap.

AJ climbed a ladder for the first time EVER! This is big, people.

We did some fish sitting. No one died, although it was sketchy there for a while.

Museum and Science and Industry. One word: TRAINS!

I bought my Easter Dress. IT'S AN 8!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is bigger than AJ climbing the ladder.

We finally got to go play in the sand at the park, too. AJ has been asking to go for so long...

He was real excited to head over to the park and play. On the way we counted birds, houses, squirrels and other random items. AJ has been very talkative as of late. If you know AJ, you know that this is yet another piece of big news.

I have accepted the fact that I am a complete failure at potty training. I have tried everything and he is DEAD SET against even trying. I have read books, blogs, magazines, asked friends, watched other moms, asked other kids to talk to him about it, made Mike pee on Cheerios, and bought him cute stuff. He still gets very upset and scared at even the mention of going on the potty. The other day, however, he told me he wanted to wear his Thomas underwear. But he got real touchy when I suggested he not wear his diaper. So the compromise was to wear the Thomas underwear OVER the diaper. I did not get a picture of this and I am disappointed because as you can imagine, it had a high hilarity factor. Add that I bought the stupid underpants so long ago that they are now too small and he looked like he was wearing a red Speedo. Classic.

Easter Decorations- The Finished Products and Various Other Delicious Doings

AJ and I are home today on this rainy and cold Good Friday. Melba's Daycare is closed even though school is not- grumble grumble- so I decided to take a personal day and have at it.

We have may things we started a few days (weeks?) ago and now after a whirlwind morning of projects, we are done. All I have left is cleaning.

Pink Lemonade Cupcakes

Easter Egg Garland with Paint Sample Cards

Glitter Eggs a la Martha Stewart and Quail Eggs a la Lola and Lolo

AJ brushed glue on each egg and then rolled it in the glitter LIKE A BOSS!

We used Icing Colors to do these...

Tonight I plan on church, then an early bedtime. Tomorrow after an early workout, I clean. Anyone want to join me?

No Question...

He is

my

favorite

little Porkchop.

Hopping Down the Bunny Trail

AJ and I will be doing some crafting in the coming weeks. I saw some great ideas on some blogs I forgot to bookmark, so sadly I cannot post pictures of the original ideas- but one is a paint sample egg garland. Google it and I am sure one of the many instruction pages I saw will pop up. We went to Lowe's and I raided the sample thingy and spread them out on color order. I printed an egg template and cut out the eggs to include all three colors on the sample, but not the words on them.

I will next punch holes and string them on the garland. But that is next time...I will post finished products later.

We will also be making glitter eggs. I may be embarking on this adventure while AJ is taking a nap.

While our friends Hannah and Rachel are here, we want to dye eggs with icing paste. They come out the BEST colors!

I am excited for Easter decorations, springtime cheer and the countdown to SUMMER VACATION! 50 some odd days left and I can feel each one stretching out before me like a long unendurable journey fraught with danger and uncertainty. (I just read a very dramatic book, so I'm feeling literary. Beg Pardon...)

Passing Time at the Henry's

So fun.