Sunday, April 25, 2010

April means...

Time for the Spring football game, Doc's Birthday, trips to the park, field day, and lots of birthday parties. As usual, the month has flown by. Both girls are doing great. Hadleigh's social calendar has kept us busy. She has had several princess parties this month, which she LOVES, and has finally decided she loves the big inflatable bouncy things. It's near impossible to drag her away at the end of the party! Her school had a Family Fitness Day, which was essentially a field day for toddlers. She showed off her long jump, relay, and hula hoop skills and got to play in a real police car. The kids all had a blast and even Harper loved cheering them on. Harper has had a rough month, first with a ruptured ear drum and then a double ear infection. She is on the mend though and hopefully we can keep those ears healthy from now on. She is crawling all over the place now, pulling up a little, and has been eating lots of table food with her 4 teeth. She has played in the toy kitchen more in the past week than Hadleigh ever has. She loves taking the food out of the baskets and putting them back in again. She is definitely an organizer. Baskets and containers can keep her occupied for a while! Her sleeping patterns are still unpredictable and she frequently ends up sleeping in our bed. She's a great sleeper once she's cuddling with me, which I really don't mind:) Maybe once her ears are all healthy again, we can get some more long, peaceful, sleep-full nights.

Football time...


Maddie and Hadleigh enjoyed exploring the Discovery Museum in Little Rock together.
Doc's birthday bash...


Fitness Day...



Party time...


Park time...






Thursday, April 8, 2010

Easter

We had a wonderful Easter at home this year enjoying the beautiful weather, a great church service, fantastic friends, and lots of yummy goodies. We haven't put much emphasis on the Easter Bunny yet, so Hadleigh really didn't have any expectations for the day except that she kept shouting "Jesus is alive!". She did love hunting for eggs, though she wasn't in any hurry to collect them. She opened each one before moving on to the next. Between doing this and the fierce wind blowing her basket over several times, it took her quite a while to fill her basket! Harper loved gnawing on all the eggs (and her first piece of ham) and watching the kids run all over the yard. She's been working on her top teeth so has been a bit on the cranky side, but nothing that a little cuddling won't cure!
Here she is sneaking into Hadleigh's basket looking for something she can fit into her mouth!

My attempts at Easter pictures after church...



The perfect picture--minus the raised hand. She never raises her hand for anything, why now?!?!

Swinging while watching the ongoing egg hunt.
Do you think she can make it down the slide with all her eggs? Um...not even close!


Fighting the wind

Before you judge our hideous yard, the weeds provided the perfect hiding spot for eggs!

Marlee and Hadleigh looking for any forgotten eggs.

Good Buddies!

Another successful year of Easter egg dying