Eastery Goodness at Home

Easter morning began about 5:30 a.m. Mommy woke up first because I HAD to see if the hippity hop came. I made coffee (in the dark) , took my medicine (quietly) and then waited patiently to see how long before my little Easter bunnies would wake up! It didn't take you long; by 5:50 I had you both bouncing out of the bedroom! Daddy crawled out of bed and very groggy (he had a fire call in the middle of the night) he video taped you looking through your baskets that the Edgar E. Bunny filled!You ransacked the baskets and found those eggies in no time flat! It's so much fun to watch your faces as you look through your things and finding those eggs! There were 94 eggs in all! That's A LOT of eggs for 2 lil hoolies to find!

 

 

 

 

 

After finding the bazillion eggs... opening them up and enjoying some Eastery fantastic candy. As per Holiday tradition; you ate all the candy you wanted, ALL day! OH MY MY. Shortly after chocolate kisses, sleep smiles and bellies full of cinnamon rolls we started getting dressed into our Easter best! You both looked SO sweet in your sparkly butterfly dresses. I love any reason to get you dressed up and do your hair!

We went to church at St. Francis for Easter celebration of Jesus has Risen at 8 a.m. It was a beautiful mass, the church was FULL! You both were VERY well behaved and I am so impressed with your knowledge of and thoughts about the Priest's Homily.  Kailee caught that the Priest addressed that even the Priests are sinners. That sparked some wild conversation...that can be summed up with; we are all human and while Priests are supposed to act on the behalf of God; they are not God and the are human. Humans make mistakes. One day we can discuss that further but for now; I think that's enough for your little beings to think about.

After celebrating the Rising of Christ we made our way over to see Gramma Deb, Grampa Lou, Abby, Jordy, Auntie Angela, & Uncle Josh!! We even ended up seeing Uncle Lou and Mona on Wii U chat too! We ate a delicious Easter lunch! You found all the eggs the bunny hid at Gramma & Grampas AND you opened your Easter baskets they so nicely made especially for the each of you. (Pictures to come in a different Easter post)

After lots of visiting we finished out our day at Grandma Sandee & Grandpa Bob's! Aunt Stacey, Aunt Gina, Soon-to-be Uncle Ben and Makenna were there. (Auntie Faith was vacationing with her friend in a different state.) We went and had a bit of dinner, then you had some Bunny Cake that Auntie Stacey made! You played with the bunny ball poppers that were in your baskets and then you were ready to come home and get your cozies on.
(Pictures to come in a different Easter post)

April is Autism Awareness Month

Week 13: Eastery Good Fun!

March 27: We received an envelope from Lainey Bowers today! Inside was Flat Stanley! We have been having all kinds of fun with that little paper guy. Poor Gg has been home with a fever since Monday. The fever broke in the night last night and she's back to her perky, peppy, I wanna go to school self!

 March 28: It's finally movie day at school! You were able to go watch the movie, "The Croods" and you both found it entertaining, hilarious and you cannot wait until it comes out on video so we can watch it as a family. You both had a nice relaxed day in the afternoon at school; no rushed timed tests, no pop spelling quizzes, just a day filled with fun!

March 29: Happy Good Friday! We got up "earlyish" and went grocery shopping today! 8:30-10 a.m. we were in Meijer. You cannot believe how many people were there getting the shopping out of the way today too. After that we spent the afternoon putting away groceries. Yes it took us all afternoon to do this. Then we made crosses for the grandparents.

March 30: It's Holy Saturday! We got up early again because daddy had to go to work at the Fire School so we ran to Walmart to find some Eastery gifts for family. Then we went over to Grandma Sandee & Grandpa Bob's this morning to visit with them and Auntie Stacey who was home babysitting Makenna for Auntie Gina & (your soon to be) Uncle Ben. We better get use to saying it because he will officially be your "Uncle" now that he asked Auntie Gina to be his wife. Then we went over to Gramma Deb & Grampa Lou's to help Gramma make salads for tomorrow. It was really sweet because Gg snuggled Grampa the whole time. You're still babies at heart and I love that. We were pretty tired because of being up early again. After that we went over to the fire hall and we watched the students work with the fire hoses (daddy operated the pump) and then we watched them light the propane Christmas tree. It was cool to watch them push the fire back with the water. After this we came home and relaxed a bit. Then we went to dinner at Vivio's in Indian River to celebrate the engagement of Auntie Gina & Uncle Ben.

March 31: Happy Easter!! Guess who hopped on down the Bunny Trail? Yep, Edgar E. Bunny made his way to our home last night! He hid eggs, he filled baskets and he even at your carrots and left a a note.

 

 
April 1st:

April Fools!! 

Yep, it's a snow storm. Lucky us.

Dye Tieing Eggs

The dye tieing of eggs... in Gg's words.

Gg's favorite dye tied egg.

Kk's favorite dye tied egg.

Week 12: Spring Break is coming!

March 20: Happy 1st Day of Spring! What a way to kick off Spring... with a SNOW DAY! Yes it was blizzardy, icy type weather today. So, the school found it in your best interest to close. So agreed! While I am pleased that you had another day home with me (Again Grandpa Lou thinks I made up the snow day just to keep you home so I'm not by myself), I am not so loving the idea of our school year extending into the Summer. We are crossing our fingers something can be done so we won't have to make up these snow days. So, we spent the morning being cozy together reading books. Then we switched up gears and played Fancy Nancy Game. After that we had a had a great lunch and then you went out to play in the freshly fallen snow. It was so much fun to watch you from the window making snow angels, sledding down the hill and then building a "snow fort" out of the snow pile by Kk's tree that is bigger than G now!  Then we did Karoke! What a great way to spend some fun time!

It's the second day in a new week... it's hard to believe that in little more than week Spring Break will be upon us (mostly because last year during Spring Break it was warm and there was no snow)! Though there is very little planned... it's the relaxing with you that I'm most excited about. I miss you so much when you're gone. It gets really lonely at home all day by myself. I live each waking moment in suspense to hear how your day was, what your favorites from the day were, and who you played with.

March 21: The snow keeps falling... but today you had school! It turns out there is lots of fun to be had when the snow is fresh! All kinds of happy sweet laughter. I love it when I can listen to you both play so sweetly from outside. I hear joyous, momentous screeches of delight! Watching you from the window fills my heart with so much love. So much pride.


March 22:Finally it's Friday! This morning G woke up and said, "Ah, it's Friday!" We love Fridays... because we know the two "S" days follow. Those days allow us to have some fun, be cozy and play later than usual. We woke up a little late this morning (daddy turned off his alarm clock) so your morning routine was a condensed version. It was a quick, hurried version and no one really likes those mornings. So, after school we had to get in our "snuggle time".

As soon as Daddy came home from work we colored Eggs for the Edgar E. Bunny! It was so much fun. I love the creativity of "Dye Tieing" Easter Eggs. You really got creative this year.

Then we started packing clothes because tomorrow you are staying at Gramma Deb & Grampa Lou's with Abby and Jordy. It was going to be an earlier than normal "S" day morning so we were all in bed by 8 p.m.

March 23: Then you both were up at 6 a.m.! Like clock work, I mean really it doesn't matter what time you go to bed, you still end up awake at 6 a.m. since you were toddlers. Talk about a bewitching hour... that seems to be yours. We got up and ate then headed over to Gramma Deb's. Where hopped into Gramma's car and left daddy and Grampa then we were on our way to see Auntie Angela & family. We went to their house and played briefly before we went shopping! Mommy hadn't been shopping in forever... I mean the fun shopping where we just browse and take our time. We ended up having lunch at Big Boy and then we went in search of your "crazy hat" for crazy hat day. We went to Kmart and you each found a visor that you had envisioned turning into your own version of a "crazy hat".  Then we hit Hobby Lobby and Meijer. We browsed through the Easter fun and looked at every square inch of the stores.

After shopping and goodbyes to Auntie Angela & Uncle Josh, we made our way back to Gramma Deb's where daddy & Grampa awaited us with giant smiles. Mommy and daddy didn't stay long, because we had a little shopping to do, so we left you for the evening to make memories with your cousins & Gramma & Grampa. 

March 24: I woke up at 7:30 and realized I didn't hear giggling. I don't like waking up to a quiet house. I love my mornings to start with you both in the living room whispering under your blankets while you play with your toys or watch tv cozied up together on the couch. I sent daddy at 9:30 to bring you home. I was ready for you to come hom, (my leg was super sore from all of the walking yesterday), but after daddy left he informed me he was taking you to the store to go mama birthday shopping. So I was without you for even longer!

When you finally waltzed through the door, I kissed your cheeks red! I couldn't get enough snuggles and guess what you wanted to do?! You wanted to go play with your toys and leave me empty lapped. You're growing up. This I have a hard time with. But, hearing you in the next room having fun eases my troubled heart. Though, after about an hour of playing you both were sick of each other and ready to be separated.

That's when we decided it was time to work on those crazy hats! Which turned out great!

March 25: Oh Mondays... how I loathe you! Poor Gg woke up at 11 p.m. last night throwing up. It was terrible. She was pale and just felt awful. Mommy made up the couch and then daddy brought up the mattress from the basement so I could sleep in the living room with you. It was a good thing I did because you had a rough night; puked twice more and then lots of head stroking was needed along with some mama snuggles. Poor baby. (There's nothing worse than a mama's baby being sick.)

So Gg stayed home with mommy and we snuggled all day. Then about 11 a.m. the fever started! Blasted fever! We have no luck when it comes to puking or fevers! The two go hand in hand in this house. So, I let Gg's lil tiny body fight it off, she took a 2 1/2 hour nap and then was still in bed by 7 and fast asleep by 7:30!
Kk had a great day at school. She wore her crazy hat and crazy socks! I love my "crazy lovin" girl! Poor G was so upset about missing the fun at school. It was terrible. But Kk thought of her and brought her home a sucker from the bus for helping keep it clean. I thought that was super thoughtful and very compassionate.

March 26: BEACH DAY! Okay it's not really a beach day but it is at school! G woke up fever free and clothing free too... said she got super hot this morning (which is probably when her fever broke)! Well, daddy came home from work to stay with G while mommy and K went to an appointment. We went to see this nice lady, Miss Natalie, about figuring out ways to help us as a family help K with working through frustration and to work on social skills. After our appointment K was excited to go to school and take on Beach Day! When she came home from school full of smiles and said that Beach Day rocked, poor G started to cry because she was missing out. I felt terrible... because she took a "beach day" bath only to have it bring on her fever again.

So, that means no school tomorrow. :( Kk played outside after school for about an hour, soaking in the sunshine... while poor G watched her eagerly from the window.
We received a large envelope from Lainey Bowers today. It was "Flat Stanley"! He's come to visit us for a couple days! We had to make him winter wear though because he was freezing! He's got thin blood from living in the South, where it's warmer.