Easter and Eli's birthday!

We had a very busy Easter that started off by with the kids finding their buckets from the Easter Bunny.  They each received a pair of pajamas, a pinwheel, and a chocolate bunny.  They were very excited. 

 As soon as they noticed an egg close to their buckets, they were off hunting the mass of eggs.  They each had three larger eggs that had a few jelly beans and two Reese eggs.  The rest of the eggs were full of fruity cheerios (which they aren't that into eating ironically they would rather have regular Cheerios). 

 After brunch with Remillards and rest time, it was off to the Arnolds for Easter dinner and Eli's birthday!  Can't believe this "little" man is three!  Where does the time go? 

 He was very good about waiting to blow out his candles until everyone was together and ready to sing.  Mason really wanted to eat his cupcake but thankfully he waited too! 

Make a wish Eli!  Happy 3rd Birthday!

Getting ready for the Easter bunny!

Today we enjoyed the beautiful weather and colored our eggs outside to make sure they are ready for the Easter bunny tomorrow.  They really enjoyed it and the boys were very curious about it since they don't remember doing it before. 

Olivier enjoyed transferring his eggs from one color to the other and making more of a mess in the process, although that isn't a surprise! 

 Anna was very hesitant to move her eggs around too much and really wanted to make sure they were fully covered. 

 Mason enjoyed seeing his finished product and guessing what color they would be after they were done. 

 Great spot for the mess!  :-)

And the finished product, Anna is the top row, Olivier is the middle row, and Mason is the bottom row. 

We hope everyone has a wonderful Easter! 

Things the kids say

We get a lot of laughs listening to the various things the kids say.  We usually don't capture them on video but since Olivier was being particularly talkative I decided to take a video clip of him.  Here are a couple of short segments from the Olivier show!  :-)

He has lots of energy in his tummy!

Olivier working on his counting. 

We know they are growing...

But looking at them in their shirts from Eli's 2nd birthday party last year versus this year, they are at least growing in proportion with each other!

Here is this years photo:

 And last years photos:

And we went to my parents house for my dad's birthday, of course they asked him to read a book.  It is wonderful how much they love books! 

Anna's 5 year old checkup

On March 1st Anna went for her 5 year old checkup.  It is exciting to watch her grow and reaching the age of 5 seems like a huge milestone, getting ready for kindergarten! 

She is 42.25 inches tall (45th percentile)
She is 36.5 pounds (25th percentile)
She has 20-25 vision
She has perfect hearing
And her blood pressure was 92/54

She got three shot and was very brave.  We had talked about it ahead of time and after such a busy appointment, she got a special treat, frozen yogurt!  :-)  She chose strawberry lemonade with mini M&M's, gummy bears, gummy worms, skittles, and an ice cream cone.  

Visitor in our yard

A couple of weeks ago we had this visitor in our yard, yikes!  (Sorry for the blurry photo, it was taken quickly with my phone and this is zoomed in so you can see.)

Happy Birthday Gus!

On February 28th our nephew Gus turned 1!  Wow!  Can't believe it has already been a year.  We had a great time at his party and he sure enjoyed his cake!  :-)