Gymnastics

Is it time to sign the boys up for gymnastics? They were having a blast burning off some extra, crazy energy tonight. Check out the video!

Easter 2011

This year for Easter, we split the fun into two days. On Saturday, we went to Decatur to Grandma & Grandpa's house. I filled some plastic eggs with gold fish and other goodies and we had a small "hunt" in the front yard. Brandon and Matt stopped by to help. The boys would find an egg, stop, open it, eat the goodie and then put the egg in their bucket. It made for a very slow going hunt! We finally talked Nick into getting more than one at a time and then taking the stash back to eat. The other two couldn't be convinced!

Grandma boiled some eggs for us to color. I wasn't too sure about dying the eggs with the boys. So in honor of Grandma Williams, we had the boys color the eggs with crayons! It is a good thing the eggs were cooked! At the end, I don't think there was one egg that wasn't cracked. A few of them dropped off the counter and rolled across the floor. In all honesty, Grandma colored most of them. The boys tried with a few but then they saw the cool faces she was drawing and began asking her to draw one for them. They also had a few plastic eggs left over from the hunt so they put the real eggs in the plastic ones, like carriers... and then shook the plastic eggs. Again, it's a good thing they were hard boiled!

On Sunday, we packed up the re-filled plastic eggs and headed to Minonk for lunch and another egg hunt in the country. Unfortunately, after being up there for a little over an hour, we had to pack up and head home. Nick's allergies were acting up and the poor guy looked miserable! We're not sure what caused it, but he complained of a headache, had a constant runny nose and the clincher was when his eyes started swelling up. After coming home (taking some allergy meds) and naps (for the whole family - bonus!), he was all better. Although we had a great lunch with the family before we had to leave, we didn't get much time to visit or have an egg hunt. Thankfully, everyone was able to come over to our house after naps and we did the egg "hunt" here! We tried it out in the front yard since the back yard was still very swampy. And once again, they found an egg, opened it, ate the contents, put it in the basket, repeat. I think Grandma Judy and I ended up picking up the remaining eggs and just giving them the buckets full of treats to eat.

Maybe next year I'll be brave enough to take them to the mall to meet the Easter Bunny in person or to a real egg hunt...

Here is a slide show of more pictures from Easter weekend (If viewing this from your email, you may need to visit the blog site):

Fishing

We let the boys fish for the first time this weekend... and they loved it!

Okay, so it wasn't really fishing, but the game Let's Go Fishin'! The Easter Bunny brought it for them last weekend and they looked at it on the mantel all week (in the wrapping until I had a chance to validate the age appropriateness). Once it was opened, they were obsessed for the next few days. It is slowly starting to wear off, but they still go back to it frequently throughout the day.

Nick ~ Proud of his catch!

Alex ~ Is this big enough to keep or throw back?

We talked a little bit about one day when they go fishing for real with dad and grandpa and get to use worms and hooks. They seemed to be interested, but then again, the fish were going around and around on the table, so I'm not sure they were really paying attention to me!

Puddles!

The boys and I took a walk yesterday and found some fun puddles to run through. Thank goodness for rubber boots! We did have to strip off their boots, pants, socks and jackets before we went in the house... they were soaked!!! Here's a short video...