Fun with Easter

We had a great Easter here in Washington this year. As is becoming somewhat of a tradition, Grandma and Grandpa came out here to share the holiday with all of us. We had a blast!!! Enjoy the pictures....

Getting ready to decorate Easter eggs






Decorating the Easter eggs






Intense Concentration!!!


...and I helped!!!




Ewwww!!!!


All done...




Easter Morning!!!




Finding Easter eggs

The Joy of Birthday Presents

Eily has been having a great time with all the things that she got for her birthday. She locked herself away for 2 hours after Dad put her new castle in her room. Cavan is no longer allowed in her room!!! We played some of the board games that I got her...the first board games she's ever played...our current score on Candyland: Eily 6, Daddy 1. But today she was running around and I just had to take some pictures that show just how fun birthday presents can really be...

Look at me...I'm stylin' now!!




Yup, I'm 5 now...see.




Eily fashions presents her new spring line-up...Bunny glasses in the bracelet style

Eily is 5!!!!

Well another year has come and gone and my Eily has just turned 5. I can't believe it...she's getting so big. In the last few weeks we registered her for kindergarten and now she turns 5..crazyness. The best part was through the wonders of modern technology, grandma and grandpa were able to watch the procedeings on the computer via webcam.

But that's enough of Dad's blather...on to the pictures.

Presents!!!






The joys of wrapping paper




More presents!!!








Now that's a castle!!!






Every castle needs a dragon...this one is as big as Cav!!!


Anyway, Eily would like to thank everyone who sent her cards, presents or wished her well for her birthday

Eily in the Hood

Eily was channeling her inner Detroit ghetto rat today. Pulled out the hoody and started running around with the hood pulled up. It was so comical, I just had to get pictures...luckily she was in a mood to happily oblige the request.

Spring is Coming

The weather is crazy here...while most of you in the midwest and on the east coast have been getting battered by a snow barrage, those of us in the Pacific Northwest have been enjoying a month and a half of spring already. It's been crazy...temperatures in the 50's some days almost 60. Lot's of clear, sunny days (normally a rarity at this time of year)...it's been magnificent. And the capper of it all...the cherry trees are already starting to bloom...almost before they even have leaves!!! No Kidding...look at the pics below.







The kids are doing well. We're dealing with some coughs and colds brought on by the unseasonably strange weather, but other than that they are doing magnificent.

Eilish is learning away, getting ready to start kindergarten this fall! We're going to register her for school on Monday!!! I can't believe it...she's getting so big. We've been working hard on letter/number recognition, phoenetics and listening, listening, listening. Let's just say Eily has a tendency to act before she listens to everything someone is saying to her.

Also coming up in a few short months is her big year end dance recital...Her class is during the day on Friday's, so I don't get to see them practice...but I've been catching her busting out some new dance moves when the music is on at home...can't wait.







Cavan is...well...Cavan. He's 2, he's crazy, he's destructive, he's stubborn and he's strong as an ox. But most of all he is cute and sweet and loving...when you can pin him down long enough. The big surprise with him lately is his cognitive development. I mean you expect all the crazy things (ripping his diaper off in bed, climbing the changing table, trying to tear down the blind, finding him on the kitchen table, etc.) from a 2 year old boy...but his cognitive development astounds me. While he has been happily coloring or working on puzzles and we've been working with his sister on stuff, he has managed to pick up almost the entire alphabet!!! No kidding, show him a letter and he can pretty much tell you what it is. At 27 months old...I'm so proud of him!