Easter

The first two pictures are the morning of Easter at home. I made the kids get dressed fast so they could find their eggs before we went to 9am mass. The other four pictures are at my grandparents house. They each had a color of egg to find and they loved it. Every time Ethan saw an egg he said, "Ah Ha!". Then he would make a comment about the egg having dirt on it. The day before Easter we went to my dad's and the kids were able to hunt for eggs there too. In the end, I think they enjoyed the egg hunting more than the candy inside. Easter was a good time and we enjoyed getting together with our families. We are so blessed!

Coloring Eggs

As I said I would get back to Easter. We colored eggs two days before Easter. The kids had fun and wished we had more to do. We ended up with some really neat looking eggs. I got in on the fun and dyed some non-hardboiled eggs.

First Soccer Game

Haircut

April Fool's Day- Madi wasn't joking around. She wanted to cut her hair short. I thought we were going to get a trim and add some layers, but she had other thoughts. I asked her several times to make sure that she wanted it short. She had made up her mind and she likes it! Daddy likes it because it doesn't take as long to comb her hair after bathtime.

Colin's B-day

Swimming Update

Swimming is going so well. Both of the kids are doing great!! Ethan actually asks if it's a swimming day because he's so excited to go.

Madison can do the Back Skull for the whole length of the pool by herself (no kickboard). It's so much fun watching her do the Back Skull because you can tell it's her favorite thing. She's practically beaming, plus she can swim completely straight from one end to the other. At the swim school they have what's called "The Peanut". It helps teach kids how to dive in to the water. Madison is scared of this thing and hasn't wanted to go off of it. The first time she dove off she came out of the water and was almost in tears. So the next few times they didn't make her do it. We then had a few pep talks about having to keep trying things until it's not scary anymore. I told her when it's time to go off the peanut and she's scared to look at me. The next class they ended up using the peanut. Her instructor Tina must have told her she needed to try it again. Anyway, she looked at me and I could tell she was scared. I gave her a thumbs up and a big smile and she went off. She still doesn't love the thing, but at least she'll go off of it!

Ethan's task that we had to pump him up for was jumping off the side into the water. The same day I was giving Madi pep talks about the diving I was working on Ethan with jumping into the water. He looked up at me when it was his turn, grab ONE of Robin's hands and jumped in! Ethan has come so far from that first couple weeks of lessons. He puts his face in the water proabably 5 times each lesson. Now he'll put his face in the water and kick his feet while Robin pulls him so it's like he's swimming. Plus, he LOVES to go down the slide. We couldn't be prouder of them!!!