Baptism Reception

Maw-Maw and RC enjoying the beautiful weather outside.

Our little newly baptized little girl checking out all of her visitors.

Little M being helped up by her mom, sporting her cute new outfit.

R and his buddies, S and N.

R's Baptism

RC's baptism went really well. It was a beautiful day.

Nanny rubbing oil on her head as part of the ceremony.

RS getting bored and wondering off.

Family pic with Nanny, Paran, Fr. TJ and Maw-Maw.

Easter Braves game

After the egg hunt, RS took a short nap, then we were off to watch the Braves with our buddies M and J. It was a beautiful Easter Sunday and the weather could not have been more perfect. RS and Daddy smiling for the camera.

Nanny and RC.

RC snoozing in her sling. Whew, this game was wearing her out.

Easter egg hunt at home

Come on, Dad, we have more eggs to find.

Here is another one. . .

His basket full of eggs. Dad having fun on R's swing and R just laughing at him in a little tiny swing.

Bumbo day

RC sitting by herself now with the help of her Bumbo chair.

RS giving her a hug and RC loving the attention.

RS redirecting the camera to focus on him. After I finished taking pics of RC in her chair, RS brought it over to the next room and sat in it and asked me to take pics of him sitting in the chair as well ;0)

Easter Egg hunt at the Library

Today after story time, there was an Easter Egg hunt at the Library. It was so great and drew a HUGE crowd.

The kids were lined up around the tape eager to run out to collect their eggs. R met a new friend who taught him how to open the eggs to get to the candy!

The hunt was started by a blow of the whistle by our very own Easter bunny.

This is the lady who tells the stories every Wednesday. She is so great and animated that she keeps the attention of even the young children.

Easter Eggs

Yesterday, we dyed Easter eggs--oh the mess! We had four little cups filled with blue, purple, green and yellow dye for the eggs. He wasn't in a great mood when we started, but after I showed him how to pull the egg out of the pot then put it into the dye, he decided he loved it!

He put one egg in each color then continued to get more eggs out of the pot and add multiple eggs to the bowls of dye. Whoops, I didn't exactly plan for that. The dye was overflowing my much-too-small-bowls and going all over the counter, but he just said "oh, oh" and persevered. After they were in the dye a while, I took one out and showed him how they are colored and told him that he could take out the rest.

"Whoa!" he was amazed! He took out another one, "whoa!"

I could just see the wheels turning in his head. . . well, what if I dipped an already colored egg into this other color?

This process continued until several of the eggs were a brownish color. They did come out really pretty because of the way the color resisted some areas and was drawn to others. And since he hasn't really mastered "gentle," most of the eggs were cracked, but still a huge improvement on last year when Grandma dyed eggs with him.

He even enjoyed the clean-up process. He would soak up the dye with a paper towel, then

squeeze it out--he got a kick out of this little trick several times!

Though this process lasted for more than an hour, he still wanted more. We decided to have an egg knocking contest right there in our kitchen. It didn't take him very long to decide that this was the best game in the world. I held an egg in my hand and he knocked his egg onto mine until one of ours broke.

Yay, his went first! Is it wrong to win an egg knocking contest played with my 22 month old son? Hey--blame it on the egg.

RC rolled over today!

Today while playing on her mat, RC rolled onto her side and was laughing at herself in the little mirror on the mat. I tried to take a pic of her, but my battery was dead and I can't find the charger--whoops! A couple of seconds later, she was on her tummy. She didn't like being on her tummy for very long. But on her 3 month birthday, our sweet baby girl just rolled over for the first time ever--yay!

Atlanta Children's Museum

RS on the John Deer with Granpa and Granma in the background.

R is probably the 300th kid that day who tried eating the plastic corn.

R and another little girl who were building things together.

Playing in the moon sand--this stuff is really cool. I will have to try to learn how to make it.

H's birthday

RS's favorite friend had his 2nd birthday a few weeks ago. It was a really cute froggy themed party. Here is H blowing out his candle--it was so cute!

R and H playing with his train set. Always a popular room when visiting at H's.

RC enjoying herself at the party!

Mommy helping H open presents.

Planting peppers and flowers

We planted our first peppers and flowers of the season about a month or so ago and started with the little starter kits and seeds. We first added water to the soil then added seeds and more water.

Misting the container after planting. Oh, the joy!

Getting the seeds out of the bag while H plays with Mardi Gras beads in the background.

The plants are grown now and I have transferred most of them from starter pots to beds in the yard. More pics to come. . .