Easter

We had a very nice Easter with Grammy and Papa and the cousins. That crazy rabbit left chocolate eggs all over the floor. I lost count of how many of those chocolate eggs I dug out of Addy's mouth before the foil wrapper was removed (ouch!)

Snow Drifts

As warm as it was last week, there are still drifts in Dan & Mary's yard. Of course if you have a Gator and see a drift, you have to try to get OVER the drift. I was a little slow snapping pictures though. This was taken about the time they gave up on trying to get over the drift. It was pretty funny to watch the 4 kids problem solve how they'd get over that drift. (Including Sydney with her broken collar bone trying to push and pull the Gator over it.)

Addy and Hayley's "Blankie"

Hayley left "Blankie" alone for a few minutes and Addy latched on to it. I am NOT going to be encouraging her to love up on that poor ratty thing.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

The naughty leprechaun came to visit our house this morning and caused some trouble. First he dyed the water in our toilets green (yes this is a picture of my toilet- nice huh!)

Then he dyed our MILK green too!

(Hayley's shirt says, "Green is SO last year!"

Easter Eggs

How is it that this is the FIRST time we've ever colored Easter Eggs? I guess it has been mommy's own concern about the mess they could make (which cleaned up- amazing!!!). The girls had so much fun. Now I'll have LOTS of eggs for egg salad!!!

Geese

All last week we had hundreds of thousands of geese migrating over our town. No matter where you looked you would see them and hear them. Here is one SHORT movie of them.

Timid, Quiet Hayley

Wow, she's really coming OUT of her shell.

Addy Singing

Addy's favorite song right now is "Black Horse and a Cherry Tree" by KT Tunstull. Here she is singing the chorus.

First Years

I am really enjoying digital scrapbooking. I never was able to convince myself to start actually scrapbooking with paper because of all that was involved with it. But digital scrapbooking is SO not messy and if you don't like something you just delete it!

So, here are 3 layouts I did of the girls' first years.

Things you learn from a 1st Grader

At Sydney's recent parent teacher conferences her teacher was very complementary of Sydney's ability to learn. She's VERY good about spitting random facts out. Recently they studied a section on butterflies and moths. And once again, I was sent to the internet to research some of Sydney's "facts" I wasn't sure were true... and of course they ARE!

Fact #1- How do you tell the difference between a moth and a butterfly? According to Sydney a moth rests with it's wings together and and butterflies rest with their wings spread. And wouldn't you know it SHE IS RIGHT!!! Here are some other facts about the differences between moths and butterflies:
http://www.sciencebob.com/lab/q-moth-btrfly.html

Fact #2- Did you know that a caterpillar only has 6 legs? NO WAY! They have lots more than that, right??? Well, I guess not... Sydney was right again... http://www.backyardnature.net/caterpil.htm

Insects have six legs, right? But how many legs does this caterpillar seem
to have? In the picture, the caterpillar's head is on the right. The
yellow-framed inset shows a close-up from below of the head and to the left of
the head are six black jointed legs. However, in the larger picture notice that
midway the body there appear to be eight more legs. Those stubby, mid-body legs
are not real, jointed legs -- they're not the legs we refer to when we talk
about an insect's six legs. They are called prolegs and they function very well
as legs but they're not to be counted among those six legs... Finally, at the
rear end there's a very special pair of prolegs, called the anal prolegs, and
they make pretty good legs, too, but also they are not to be counted as "real
legs."

I wonder if she will be an entomologist?