Springtime

Jon built a sand table for Elijah and Evan to play in. This was a prototype for some sensory tables he is going to be making for the preschool room at church.
Elijah bought, with his own money!, a Diego sand set at a garage sale. He was pretty excited to play with it at home instead of having to wait for the beach.

Elijah was begging to plant some flowers so we planted some flower seeds and some bean seeds. Elijah found rocks to put in the bottom of the pots and then scooped all the dirt into the pots. Then he made all the holes and put the seeds in. Evan helped too. He took all the rocks out of the bottom of a pot and put them on top of the ones with dirt in them. What a helper!

The flowers all have little sprouts, but we are still waiting for the beans to come up.

Meanwhile they both have been enjoying some "outside" time everyday.
Evan is the goofiest kid. He is always coming up with silly things to make us laugh. Recently he put a bucket on his head and walked around the house running into walls.

Elijah is still enjoying the sand table. Here he spent a good deal of time burying all the Diego pieces, only to have Evan come along and mess it up. Brothers!

On another note, for some reason pajamas are a hot commodity around here. I like to buy clothes for the boys in advance so I can get them on clearance before they need them. I can never seem to find clearance pajamas and used ones are usually pretty worn. I just had some luck and found two pairs for Elijah at Once Upon A Child that were cheap and in almost-new condition. Even better, one of the pairs matched a set Evan already had. Since I love matching the boys I had to get a picture:

I resorted to sticking them in the crib to keep Evan from squirming away from the picture.

A goodnight kiss for Evan!

36 1/2 weeks!

Only 3 weeks to go!!!

I thought it was funny that Elijah wanted to take a picture too and he tried to pose like me.

33 Weeks!

Can you believe I only have 6 1/2 weeks to go until this little boy shows up!?! I don't know about everyone else, but this has been the fastest moving pregnancy so far for me. Other than a broken toe and on-going gall bladder attacks (ugh!) this pregnancy has been fairly easy going. I am feeling much better at this stage than I did with the last pregnancy, so far so good. At the beginning of this pregnancy I made a huge to-do list of things I wanted to accomplish before the baby comes. I am excited that I have almost everything done that I can do this far in advance. Hopefully I will be very prepared when the baby is here. Jon and I are also going away for a night to have a final who-rah (sp?) before the baby comes and to celebrate our anniversary a little early. It will probably be awhile before we are able to go away for a night again, so we are living it up!

A Week in Pictures

It is funny how I can go weeks without taking any new pictures and then take 50 in one week! Here are some of the highlights of our Easter week.

The day before Palm Sunday we went to the Shakopee Easter egg hunt. We did the hunt for ages 5 and under and it was a zoo! Here are the boys waiting for the "hunt" to begin.

We were in a fenced in baseball field where there were Easter eggs and candy scattered everywhere.

Once the whistle blew there was a mad rush and it was all over in a matter of minutes. Elijah didn't make out with too much, but he was pretty happy with his loot.

They also had a fire truck to check out. Inside they had games, face painting and free Jimmy John's! We had an impromptu lunch which was quite yummy.

Last Monday night I broke my little toe. I ended up going to urgent care, who then sent me to the ER, just to make sure it wasn't anything more major. Sure enough, the x-ray reviled the bone was broken all the way through. My first break!
I decided to include a picture, even though I am not a fan of feet, especially my own! Pay no attention that my big toe is already smashed up from a previous injury and that my supposedly fixed bunion looks huge!

The day before Easter we dyed some eggs. I think this is the first time Elijah has really participated, since we did not do them last year.

Here he is telling me all the colors while waiting for the tablets to dissolve.

Here are the finished eggs. Elijah is kind of a "less is more" kid. He only wanted to do one color for each egg. After much persuading he let me do one multi-colored egg. I don't think he was too happy with the results though.

We had a good Easter celebrating both on Saturday and Sunday with the two families. We were all tired out by Sunday afternoon! The Easter bunny ended up coming during nap/quiet time, since we had to be at church early in the morning.

Here Elijah is helping Evan find his Easter basket.

Elijah then delivered the basket to the unconcerned Evan.

Elijah's was in a trickier spot, thanks to daddy. After a few hints he discovered the hiding spot.

Here the boys are checking out the goodies (The stuffed animals and monsters were from great-grandma the day before).

Evan got this Peek-a-Zoo toy that I, I mean the Easter bunny, found at Once upon A Child.

Both of the boys loved it and played for quite awhile. Now the little blocks are scattered throughout the living room!

I regret that I did not get a posed picture of the boys in their matching shirts. Evan is always a stinker about sitting still though. Oh well!