Easter Eggs and Stunts for Dummies

Everyone looks a little sombre here, but we had a great time dying eggs today. Everyone wished there were more eggs because they kept getting ideas for color combos to try, but since I'm the only one who will eat hard boiled eggs around here I only made a dozen.

Kent and Matt constructed a stunt dummy for Matt to practice his ninja skills on. Matt even fooled me into thinking he was in bed asleep tonight, but when I looked a little closer it was his dummy in the bed and Matt was somewhere else!

Waiting for the Icecream Man

Who knows why kids get fixated on certain ideas, but sometimes once they get an idea it's hard for them to let it go. Matt has been fixated on getting ice cream from the ice cream man for a couple of days now. I have tried to explain that the ice cream man won't be coming until it gets hot outside, but such logic is dismissed. This evening he announced that he would sit outside on a rock and wait with his $.82 for the ice cream truck to drive by. He never came, but the kids had fun jumping off the rocks and playing hopscotch anyway.

Saturday St. Patricks Day

St. Patrick's Day is one of our favorite low-key holidays.

The kids made a leprechaun house in Anna's closet. It had all kinds of little furniture made of legos as well as these welcome signs.

They got a little more sophisticated with the leprechaun trap this year. Although they still did not catch him, they found some green footprints and a treat.  Cheers everyone!

Lost on Leap Day

Anna has been wiggling this front tooth and waiting and waiting. Finally on leap day Dad pulled it out. And Finally just a few days ago I took a picture of her!