My cute pictures from Easter day and a "fun special trip" with the hubs will not download onto my computer, sooo until that happens I will update on some of our other events recently.
Easter Egg Hunt:
First off the day before Easter, we had a fun breakfast at Cortina's "island park" (a small part of our neighborhood that is separated from the rest of us by Rittenhouse) and then an Easter egg hunt for the kids. The kids had Easter baskets in hand and were seriously prepared to find themselves some eggs :)
Robby and his buddy Jude crack me up with this running picture while still holding hands! Robby is such our "friend" kid. He is always on the look-out for a playmate at the park, constantly asks me when he gets to play with our street friends {aka: Jack, Tyler, Matthew and especially Luke}, asks me repeatedly when he gets to have his playgroup with Asa, Peyton and Jude, etc... so of course he was glued to Jude's side during the entire morning. They played Monster Trucks together {and lost yet another of our Monster Trucks}, ran around the playground like Superheroes, and of course ganged up together for the egg hunt.
Maddie on the other hand is such a free-spirited little girl. Although she loves friends as well, she is perfectly content to hang out and do her own thing. She constantly amuses herself with make believe in her mind, imaginary friends, playing gymnastics alone, and coloring pictures and making her own story books. So she was bound and determined to go out on the Easter egg hunt all on her own and conquer as many as possible.
Eli has faithfully remained the baby of the family. He loves being "babied", cuddled, hugged and played with. Faith (one of our neighborhood babysitters) loves him and is always coming over at ward get togethers and adopting him for a brief time. He loves the attention and was happy to let her help him with finding his treats.
{Funny story: the other day Robby was in time out and I was talking to him about his behavior. When I asked him if big boys throw tantrums where they kick and hit, Robby replied that only babies do indeed exhibit these traits. Eli was in the background and immediately piped in with "Mommy, I baby Eli." Took the seriousness to our conversation immediately away and I couldn't help but bust out laughing and reply with "Yes you are." Which begs the question: If your child is old enough to tell you something like that, is he really considered a baby?
Yes I think he still is......
After the kids were done finding there alloted sixteen eggs, or a few more if your name starts with R or M, they started a fun game of egg tosses. Jesse and Br Taylor did pretty darn good with theirs, until the egg broke on J's shoe....gross.
Cortina Fall Festival:
Every year our neighborhood school has a huge carnival complete with snow cones, rides, petting zoo's, bounce houses, you name it. For years I have avoided going, because none of the kids knew anything about it. This year was different. Miss M knew ALL ABOUT the carnival and reminded me the entire week about it. So when Friday night hit, off to the carnival we went. We played on bounce houses, rode the teacups one time (Miss M and Robbs), visited the adorable petting zoo, rode the trackless train (boys), played a few games and of course stopped for snow cones before heading home. We had some tired but very pleased children that night :)
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