Fun with shoes!

Bella thinking she's so big...

Lately Bella refuses to let us do things for her that she THINKS she can do for herself. Example A: She doesn't want us to put on her clothes for her. She sees Elias dress himself, and she's quite certain she can do it too. So, she has a gynormous fit and refuses to let us do it for her. However, her motor skills aren't quite in agreement, and she still struggles to get things where they're supposed to go...

"The shirt goes on the legs Mommy..."

"See? I can do it."

"Then- you put the pants over the head, and you're good to go!"

Elias at the zoo with Mamá

I have signed Elias up for 3 different zoo classes so far, and he's loved them! Each class for 3 and 4-year-olds has a theme. The first one was about what the zoo animals eat. The second one was about farm animals and the third was about animals that hop. Each class has a classroom activity then field trips within the zoo. He's gotten to feed the meerkats, brush the pony, and feed the wallabies! This time he rode the pony before class which was very exciting. During the "hoppity hop" class, he got to find eggs which had pictures of animals inside of them. He had to take them out, and decide which animals hopped. Since his eggs had the most of anyone, he won a prize which (since it was chocolate) he had to share with Mamá.

Dyeing Easter eggs at Nona's

This was the first time that Bella got to try her hand at dyeing Easter eggs. Not only did she try her hand, she completely dyed her hand- bright green. But here she is before all that happened...

Elias has mastered egg dyeing- he even tried the 2-toned look!

Not bad if I do say so myself!

I'll punish myself for you...

These pictures are funny. Elias got sent to "time out" for misbehaving. However, Bella likes to keep him company, even if she's not in time out. He starts off mad at having to be there...

but quickly realizes it's fun now that sis has come to join him.

Look at me- I won the "sister of the day" award!

The Egg Hunt with REAL eggs

Elias really enjoyed hiding the eggs this year, and preferred to hide them than to find them. He hid them with Nona and then with Papá

Bella got the hang of finding them really quickly. She would find 2 eggs and then experiment with the sound of banging them together... which resulted in egg salad for lunch.

Time spent at Nona and Granddaddy's house is always so much fun... and very relaxing for Mamá and Papá!

Easter pix!

At Grace UMC in front of the flowering cross.
Papá was participating in the service at Our Saviour Lutheran, so we missed him!

The 3 cousins cooperating as usual for a group photo. Here we are at Granny Weaver's annual Easter luncheon with all of Grandma Catherine's family. Always a large crowd and LOTS of food and fun!