this little piggie...

easter weekend

easter bunny, meet the tooth fairy

The Saturday night before Easter was a big night for R...


After weeks and weeks of wiggling it, he finally lost his first tooth! We were in the car on our way to pick up his friend C, to take him to see the Harlem Globetrotters with us, and R yanked that tooth out. So by the time we got to C's front door, R was sporting a gap {and a teeny bit of blood} and a big grin because he had finally lost his first tooth. He was looking forward to going back to school after the long weekend so that his teacher could put his name on the tooth chart.

But he was even more excited that not only would the Tooth Fairy be visiting our house that night, but that maybe she would run into the Easter Bunny while he was hiding our eggs!

{It must have been in the very wee hours of the morning if they did meet because after dropping C off at his house we ended up on C's patio drinking wine with his parents and getting to know them better, while R and C played hockey on his driveway until waaaayyyy past their bedtime. And then when we got home, Miss S who had been sound asleep for hours since Grandma put her to bed, woke up and stayed up until 2am. So the Easter Bunny must have had to stay up realllllly late to surprise our kiddies in the morning...yawn...and then those darn excited kids got up soooo early to look for eggs}

it was a good friday

The kiddies and I spent this exceptionally warm Good Friday with friends, exploring the Jack Pine Trail in Stony Swamp. We met up with Christine, Monique, Jen and Jill and their families at the start of the trail in the Greenbelt. Everyone enjoyed the hike that took us just under two hours with just enough stops so that the kiddies could explore every inch of the trail...

We brought bird seed to feed the chickadees, and binoculars so that Miss S could look for "tarantulas"...she swears she saw one "on a flower" from the car window as we were driving to get to the trail.

It was at about this part of the day where I realized that Miss S had her pants on backwards. She has been very excited about getting herself dressed in the mornings lately {and today she did pretty good with the matching} so who notices details like the pants being on backwards...

The kiddies really loved the boardwalk areas...

We discovered the best tree for climbing ever. It was just like a ladder...

After our hike, we all headed over to Christine's for a picnic lunch and some play time in their back yard.

K spent the day at home installing flooring in our basement {we are developing it into a TV/play room}. He finished up in time to play street hockey outside with R before dinner, while Miss S went in the kiddie pool with some of the neighborhood girls. Can you believe swimming outside in April? I cannot get over how hot it was already today - it is going to be a long, hot summer!

eggs

Or 'aggs' as Miss S calls them. Sometimes I think Miss S is really from Boston, she talks with an accent that is hard to place. New York maybe?

Anyway, yesterday she wore her rain boots raan boots and we decorated eggs aggs. We also boiled an extra agg to take to pwe school.

{Note to self: video tape Miss S talking before she learns how to pronounce all these words correctly...she is too cute. I could listen to her talk all day. And sometimes I do}

R decorated eggs too. He just doesn't talk as cute. He talks like he is a teenager already. Mu-ummmm! Whatever. I know how to spell 'poo' {why is spelling potty words so fun for a 5 year old}?

Just take the picture already.

the chicken and the egg

Today the kiddies and I baked some Easter treats.

Guess which ones came first.

The chickens...

or the eggs?

{And the answer is: Who cares...we are eating them all!}