Keira's 4th Birthday List

So I sat down with Keira today to make out her birthday list for birthday #4 (how is she that old already?!?) and this is what she came up with. These are all things she came up with on her own. I only helped clarify to write things down. I thought it was hilarious that she wanted dolls when she normally wants nothing to do with them. She is also my technology girl. She asked for her own website and ipad. How many 3 or 4 year olds want their own website? Wow. Enjoy.

Keira's 4th Birthday List

1)My Little Pony House

2)Kid Toolbox with kid tools

3)Restaurant toy

4)Kid computer

5)Princess and the Frog book

6)a website for my kid computer

7)ipad with a cord

8)dollhouse with a door

9)a bigger train set

10)a doll

11)kid board games and puzzles

12)books

13)legos with a doggie and a helicopter

14)candy and toy candy

15)a bed for the baby doll

More Easter Eggs?

How many people are lucky enough to get to do an Easter egg hunt a whole week after Easter? We are! We got invited to Audrey's fifth birthday and she had an Easter egg hunt. My girls were so excited. Keira got right out there and found a ton of eggs but I was really surprised when Elaina figured it out as well. We couldn't get her to find any at home a week ago but apparently she had been fooling us because she sure knew how to find them today. After a week of being stuck at home because I was babysitting, it was the perfect way to get out again. :)

"Mom, I Got a DVD!!!"

That is the first thing I heard Easter morning from the girls. Keira wasn't suppose to go into the living room until a parent was out there but she ran out and found that DVD. She got "The Princess and the Frog" if you can't tell. We are also super excited to put it on the Ipod touch so we can watch it ANYWHERE. So exciting. Keira was really good at finding the Easter eggs. (How many can you see in the 3rd picture down?) Elaina didn't get the whole finding thing but she did figure out that there was chocolate hidden in all of them and had everything in her eggs eaten before we even knew it. That girl can sniff out food anywhere!

We got to go over to Grandma Marcia and Grandpa JR's house (Gama and Gaba to Elaina) and Rick built a skyscraper with Keira. You wouldn't know that we had a ton of legos at our house because that is their favorite thing to do at Grandma's house. Elaina was being a goof so I took a picture. She is always the life of a party!! We had a great Easter. We hope you all did too.

Playdoh and Eggs

Elaina didn't get to color Easter eggs this year (next year when she won't want to eat and drink everything we will try) so I put in a picture of her playing Playdoh for the first time with her sister. Yes, she tried to eat it but I think she decided it wasn't worth it. She was really good at copying everything her sister did with it and had lots of fun.

Keira got to color Easter eggs with her dad. They are both such creative people they just couldn't stick with coloring standard eggs (even though I really only got a picture of the standard eggs, whoops). If you look closely in the picture with Rick you will see he did a spotted egg that was really cool. They had a ton of fun with it and maybe if we can ever convince people in our house to eat the hard boiled eggs when we are done decorating them, we will be able to color more. I think I need to make potato salad this week or something. Anyone have good ideas for using up hard boiled eggs? No one in our house is a fan of eating them plain...

Sunny Days in Washington

It was a beautiful day yesterday (in the low 70's!) so the girls got to go outside and play. Keira used to play outside by herself last summer but this year Elaina is big enough to be her playmate! She was so excited the first time I let Elaina go outside and play with her. Our yard was not in a good enough condition to let Elaina go out and crawl around in it last summer so she rarely went out there. Now she can walk and our grass seed that we planted last fall has filled in a lot of the yard so it is much nicer. It is still a work in progress but we try. Anyway, side walk chalk is our favorite outdoor past time so the girls played with that a lot. I came out to check on them and I found out that Elaina had been doing more artwork on her clothes than on the patio. She was COVERED. Good thing it washes out really easy.

Oh, and notice our poor Jada's back. She had a huge tumor growing on it and we finally took her into the vet and had it removed. This is after two weeks of healing. It was WAY worse when she came home from the vet after surgery. I didn't have enough guts to take a picture of it. It was bad. She has been taking her meds and the incision is healing really nicely. The dr doesn't think that she will have much scaring which is crazy. As for the tumor, it could reoccur but they got all of the bad cells out and she will be on benedryl for the rest of her life to keep it from popping up again. She should be fine though.

How do you Spell "I-pod"?

So by our count, four babies can fit in a single umbrella stroller. Just in case you were wondering. Elaina is so good at taking care of her babies. I am always finding her feeding, burping and rocking her babies. She is going to make a good big sister eventually! (No this is not an announcement.) Oh and strollers can do some really good tricks. I think she learned this from her daddy. I am not taking credit for it.

Keira is getting really good at her letters. She says that is says "ipod touch." Someone obsessed much?

Duets

 

 Yesterday my friend, Dorothy, brought her two youngest kids over to play. They had lots of fun with all of the regular kid toys but they were fascinated with the piano. Julianna is a year older than Elaina but they are pretty much the same size. How cute are they playing a little duet? Max and Keira are just a couple months apart and actually had a lot of fun playing together. I think it helps that Keira is turning into such a tomboy. They both built guns out of the legos and ran around "shooting" each other. Oh boy.