Easter Egg Hunts

On Palm Sunday, we ended up having two Easter Egg Hunts. One in the morning at our church, where they divide the kids by ages and rope of areas on the big lawn ...

 

And another Egg Hunt and party for our neighborhood at our neighbors' house across the street ...

We all had a lot of fun spending time with friends and getting ready for Easter.

a pretty great Saturday

Two weekends ago, Miss EB had her final soccer game of the season. We were all thrilled that her Granddaddy could be here to witness her in action ...

After the game, we went out for a celebratory lunch with Granddaddy to McAlister's. The girls were in heaven with all the fun and attention. At the soccer team trophy ceremony this past weekend, the coach called EB the team's "secret weapon" -- that she'd come in with a flurry of small kicks until she got the ball away from the other team and scored a goal. We were so proud of her effort this season.

Our neighbors also commented that Granddaddy earned a million points for driving in to Baton Rouge just for her game and for lunch. She's a lucky little girl.

After Granddaddy left, we made our way to Nicholas's birthday party (and, yes, I gave in to my temptation and bought the girls matching swim suits that morning at Old Navy. This might be the last year they let me do it!)

All in all, it was a pretty great Saturday.

writings and such

buttons and her big girl bed

Lately, Lydia has been obsessed with doing buttons. She was soooo very proud when she was actually successful a few weeks ago. Thought she gets really frustrated and cries out when it doesn't work right away, she just keeps right on going and eventually gets it on her own. She definitely does not want help while she is trying.

We also decided a few weeks ago that it was time to give Lydia her own big-girl bed, since she'd been asking for a few weeks. We've had a matching iron twin bed in the attic all year since Shelley (Caroline and Camille's mom) gifted us her girls old twin beds. We were just waiting for Lydia to be ready. It helped that her "crib bed" is going to her cousin John Winters - she loves that he is going to use it. Here's how the room looked right before we switched things up ...

One last pic in her "crib bed" ...

And the new room!!

It has made my heart happy each night when I check on them before I go to bed. We did use zip ties to connect the beds so that they don't separate during the night or playtime. The girls love to roll across the beds and play "Momma and baby." We also decided it was time to finally get a glider for the girls' room ...

Actually, when I asked Graham about finally getting it, he said, "I love you. If you want to get one, you should. ... ... Plus, I don't want to hear you say when EB goes off to college, 'I just wish I'd had a glider to rock her in." :) His true feelings came out in the end.

So, I've been rocking the girls each night before they go to sleep, and it has been glorious. The first night, EB literally fell asleep in my arms, and I thought, "That's the best money I've every spent." Since then, she just pretends to be asleep but I'll take it! Lydia likes to be rocked a few times but always asks to get in her bed when she's really sleepy.

So, that's the girls' room update. We're loving it.