Early Easter Birds

Easter Timeline

• April 23, 2011, 0830 pm: Connor and Olivia use the clothes they wore to make nests for the Easter Bunny.



• April 23, 2011, 0900 pm: Connor and Olivia falls into a dreamy Easter sleep.



• April 24, 2011, 0500 am: Connor wakes up at the crack of dawn to look for his easter basket.



• April 24, 2001, 0505 am: Dad tells Connor to go back to sleep.



• April 24, 2011, 0700 am: Connor cannot take looking up at the ceiling anymore, he wakes up his sister by reminding her of the Easter Bunny; she jumps out of bed and giggles which is very out of the ordinary.



• April 24, 2011, 0730 am: Connor is frustrated and thinks the bunny forgot him, he continues to search for his basket.



• April 24, 2011, 0735 am: The basket is finally found in the cupboards!



• April 24, 2011, 0800 am: Hard boiled eggs for breakfast.



• April 24, 2011, 0930 am: Getting dolled up for church in Easter Sunday's new clothes.



• April 24, 2011, 1000 am: Take pictures...

Connor and Olivia in their Sunday's best.

Olivia loves how her dress twirls!

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  April 24, 2011, 0330 pm: Go to Aunt Angie and Uncle Chris' house and play with Marin, Evan, Jaxson and Julian.




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  April 24, 2011, 0500 pm: Eat a great Easter Dinner prepared by Angie.




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  April 24, 2011, after dinner: Easter Egg Hunt!

The sun played peek-a-boo and it was a nice day to stop and smell the flowers.
Happy Easter!

Eggy Art Work

Eggcited about decorating Easter eggs!
Eggxactly how she wants it: pink.

Connor decorated his with eggxtra pizazz.

Robin egg blue. . .

Playing "School"

So, I came across a picture today. It's my sister Jolyn and I playing "school." I'm pretty sure I'm wearing a women's blue slip underneath my cute little dress there and how about that turtle neck and sweater? I think I was letting Jolyn come to the front of the room to recite some "Dick and Jane." The piano bench worked great for a desk. Jo and I worked hard at our play and we really used our imaginations. We also played library, garage sale, restaurant, doctor, house, etc.

Dancing Queen!

Tumbling Tot. . .

decked out in her dance clothes

Olivia with a hint of make-up on for her dance pictures.

She was so excited to wear make-up.

I did her mascara and her eye lashes reached up to her eye brows!

She kept on asking me if her lipstick was still on at the studio. . .

so cute!

and we were both impressed that one girl's daddy was putting on her lipstick!

Family Visitors

Olivia checking out Ada.
Sara and Ada

Evan with Uncle John

Olivia holding Evie.

My Cute Kids. . .

Connor and Olivia have been cracking me up lately:

• Olivia loves to play "dance class" and she demands that I be her teacher but I never teach the way she wants me to.


• Connor bathed last night in the candle light, after he read his "Titanic" book in the tub.


• This morning, Connor wore his cleats and said he was ready to go to school (he has his first baseball game tonight!). He got by with at least wearing his baseball shirt to school. (GO CARDINALS!)


• Olivia took the initiative to write numbers in squares and draw the same number of bouncy balls under the squares. (I assumed they were dots, but I was quickly corrected!) I asked her if she learned this in school and she said, "No, I did it myself." (CLEVER!)


• Connor read the newspaper last night, he read the comics and an article about the "Tea Party." I asked about the tea party article and he said that it was about candidates that are talking about how they don't think the government should shut down. (WHAT!?) First of the article was about potential candidates and nothing about government shut down. . . but how does he know about the shut down?


• Lastly, I love, love, love that they fight over who is going to snuggle with me at the end of the day. I find a way to have both of them snuggle and lately, Momma needs some extra snuggling.

Chicago Weekend

I was asked to go to Chicago for my friend Kristi's bachelorette party and I took the chance up in a heart beat! We left on Thursday, shopped on Friday, went to the Cubs game on Saturday and

back home on Sunday. . . . .

Looking up at the John Hancock building on a foggy, rainy day

Shopping in Chicago is F-U-N!

Lots of walking.

Shops that are 5 floors high!

Macy's

Bloomingdale's

Nordstroms I bought two tank tops and found a cute dress to buy on line in the future!

Kristi (the bride-to-be) and me waiting in line for the Cubs game Left Centerfield, front row seats Watching batting practice was exciting, balls were sailing our way!

Tracy and Kristi caught some of the balls. . .

Enjoyed a hotdog at the ballpark. . .AND

Enjoyed watching the Cubs pull out a win in the 8th inning. . . 5 to 3!

Front of Wrigley Field Stadium

Working our way out of the city

Loved the trip!

Loved the atmosphere of the city!

So glad I live in the slow, laid back suburbs of the midwest.