EASTER!!!

I Love Easter! Everything about it is great. The bunnies, the chocolate, the crafts, the chocolate, the egg dying, the chocolate, having regan home all week, and did I mention the CHOCOLATE?? yes my name is Jennie and I am a chocaholic. 

Chloe didn't really get Easter last year so we didn't do much. I don't even think we dyed eggs. But I got her the Little Critters easter book and she was SO excited when we did all the things that were in the book. we now have to read it a hundred times a day so she can tell me what she did. good times. 

Chloe was having a blast doing her very first Easter crafts....paper plate, glue, cotton balls. easiest craft ever. 

Ash was enjoying it too....I think she was yelling in approval. 

and VOILA add on some paper ears and you have a fluffy bunny. Your kids will LOVE to make one...or 3. Chloe wanted to use the whole pile of paper plates. thank heavens we ran out of cotton balls. 

Then she wanted to keep being creative so I cut a big egg out of a diaper box and we modge podged scraps of fabric all over it. I didn't take a picture of the finished product...but you get the idea. It was cute. 

We were Lucky enough to have a couple of Nice days on our Easter break so we hit the park. 

Yup thats me. Bet you didn't know I am an expert princess kite flyer. 

 My girls LOVE the swings....I couldn't pick my favorites. sorry this post has a zillion pictures. 

Best $2 I ever spent. Living on the westside 99.9% of the days are windy. 

Kites are a must! and it's Chloe who wants to take the kite out, not me i swear! ok maybe its me, I forgot how much fun they are! :)

Ash just loves to be outside, I am excited for summer....but i am really hoping she figures out how to walk!! 

 Then we went home to dye Eggs. Chloe loved it. I just wanted ONE picture with me and Ash in it. 

And if you noticed the arrow in the picture you can see the millisecond move that dyed my jeans yellow. 

So then we Let ash go stare out the window while Chloe made some Eggs. 

She pulls out my food coloring daily to try and dye more eggs. I hope this stops soon, I am so worried she is going to try and open the food coloring while i am in the shower or something! 

Then The EASTER BUNNY stopped by. 

The girls were excited about all the goodies in there baskets. 

Ok maybe Ash was holding in her excitement a little bit. 

These straws and the stickers were the best presents Chloe could have ever asked for. (much MUCH better than the present i spent 4 hours making her....but I am not bitter)

My favorite bunnies!! 

 So after they played with there baskets for a few minutes I had to show chloe that there were eggs hidden all over that were filled with Candy. I thought she would have SO much fun finding them....

 But I would be wrong again. Here she is just nonchalantly walking around picking up the eggs we are pointing out to her, cause she is too lazy to actually LOOK for them. 

Then the girls each got one big present from us. We always got a big chocolate bunny growing up, but i figured she had enough candy already so we got them some books about Jesus. 

And then I had ordered this Rapunzel dress online because Chloe is OBSESSED with Tangled. Every time she watches it she tells me she needs "yong hair"....yes chloe yes you do. So being the nice mom I am I just whipped her up this rapunzel wig/headband thing (that took me 4 hours) and well, She couldn't have cared less. MAN that kid. I was SO excited to give it to her too! oh well, she really like the stickers she got. sigh. 

I did finally convince her to try it on. and she did like it for the 2 minutes it stayed on. 

I am almost done I Promise!! (It's Pam's fault for teaching me how to upload a ton of pictures at the same time....I coulnd't help myself)

 Here are the Girls on Easter Sunday in the Easter Dresses!! 

Not the best picture but i took this one and on other one before my camera died...sooo that was the best i got. but i had to remember their cute dresses!

These were their other Easter outfits that they wore the next day...so cute right? And i was SUPER excited that i could fit Chloes hair into REAL pigtails!! It was a good day. 

ANd I was just loving Ash swinging her chubby little legs back and forth on the steps.

 Man i love that baby. 

Beautiful day in the neighborhood

OH what do you do in the Sprinnnng time, when all the world is white?

Well it has just been oh so gorgeous this spring, we have been so lucky. Spring is my favorite time of year with the sun always shining the green grass, birds, just being able to go outside to run and play. what? whats that you say? it has been snowing all month? oh riiiiight. I forgot for a minute there. But when spring gives you snow you must make snowmanade. (hardy har)

So If Spring refuses to come play we will play without him.

We love it when the cousins come to play.

Even tho they fight like brother and sister they love each other like cousins should!

And then some of us have to just wish we were big enough to play with the big kids.

And while waiting for spring to come, we will learn how to stand up by ourselves.

And get into the flour just cause there is nothing else to do.

We will play in sheet forts

And have countless hours of peek a boo

With two very cute little girls.

So I guess we will just snuggle up with our favorite blankie.....

And Patiently wait for Spring to come.

Smash

So my baby is going to be one in a couple of weeks so i thought she deserved her own little post. Or maybe I only had new pictures of her when I uploaded my camera....either or.

I don't know why these are all blurry....oh wait I do. A certain big sister was probably jumping on my back screaming for me to give her the camera the whole time I was attempting to take these. Oh well they are still cute. She loves her jolly jumper, as long as someone is in viewing range.

AH her pony tail gets me every time i look at her. I now know what its like to have a baby with hair! feels good.

She loves to sleep. She usually sleeps from 8:30-7 and then naps for 3-4 hours during the day. She still sucks on her fleecy blanket with the tags....gag me. I can't imagine wanting to suck on something fuzzy, but she loves it. she is always trying to lick the pages of her touchy feely books. She does NOT like to sleep being held, which makes 1:00 church veeeery difficult. And now that she is such a big girl she has decided she wants to follow in her sisters footsteps and be very LOUD. Not as in a cranky sad baby loud, still very happy, just loud. she makes this growling/yelling sound when she is happy and it is SO loud. She is a funny girl, she looks dainty but then this GROWL comes out and everyone looks twice. She is also talking alot, you know the baba, mama, gaga sounds all the time. I love the babble, i thought she was going to be oh so quiet forever, such is not the case!

Ash loves her walker. (video down below) I love her little toddle as she cruises around the kitchen. She is alot faster now than in the video resulting in one too many bruises on my heels. SO annoying, especially when I am trying to cook she is ALWAYS under my feet. she LOVES being chased around the island and jumping out at her brings squeals and giggles for hours. Peek-a-boo is definitely her favorite game. along with patty cake, itsy bitsy spider and popcorn popping. She loves to play with my phone or the ipad. We have a game on there thats just for babies when you touch the screen a letter or shape pops up and you can bounce them around the screen, i know riveting right? well you would think it was gold by the way she freaks out if I take it away from her! Oh we also just got this book for the ipad,if you have one, and a toddler, get the bedtime book, by Sandra boynton. SO cute!!

What the red eye?? can you tell i forgot to edit these pictures first? meh.

And today she took 2 steps all by her self! maybe she will be walking sooner than i thought! she wants to SO bad. and while she still doesn't want to crawl the last couple of days she has been pushing herself up onto her knees and rocking back and forth....i know she is slow....but its a start right?

She even holds her own sippy cup...sometimes. she won't drink anything but milk, we are working on it

She is SUCH a good eater. She will pretty much eat anything you put in front of her. Regan calls her our little garburator. Her favorites are probably pears, strawberries and PB&J, or bread of any kind (she is definitley mine!) I usually feed her some oatmeal with either veggies or fruit in it and then some of whatever we are eating. She always eats EVERYTHING we giver her. thats why her double chin is so nice and lovely.

This girl loves her rice a roni!

Chloe and ash were playing so good this morning with this sheet. they played peek a boo for over an hour, giggling like crazy. It was hilarious!

Here we have some expert peek a boo from smash, she just started doing this today, hilarious!

We have the single ladies video on our apple tv and Ashley absolutely LOVES it!! without fail every time we turn it on she gets so excited, she laughs and claps her hands and kicks her feet its soooo funny. I haven't gotten the reaction on video yet, she is camera shy. but this is the girls dancing to it. Chloe loves to shake her bum like beyonce, and ash will watch the entire thing start to finish if chloe would let her!

Some walker action. This was the first day she started going forward in it, she has long surpassed this and is running around like crazy in it now. You also get to hear some of the yelling in this one...lucky you.