First Easter Celebration!

We celebrated Easter with my mom's side of the family on Saturday. It was so much fun...just too much wind. We ate and ate. Most of my cousins and their kids came. There were 14 kids at my grandmas. It was so much fun. They hunted easter eggs and played outside and

inside and had a blast. My grandma always buys them kites for easter but it was way too windy. Just getting a picture was a major task.

Here they are all lined up at a nearby park. The guys hid over 200 eggs! Kuper couldn't wait and he got a head start!

Dalton found one!

Samara chillin in the stroller. She didn't mind though, plastic eggs are so much fun to suck on!

Lyric and Kuper played in Grammy's fountain. They were soaked!

Samara had her first Peep. I didn't do it, Mamaw did! It didn't last long, Samara devoured it.

We ended the day by relaxing and playing cards. It was a great day! We are looking forward to celebrating more this week!

Ice Bunnies

Like everyone else in this area we have been staying home and enduring the cold weather. To say the least we all have had a little cabin fever and I think the kids were even a little disappointed when they found out tonight that there is still no school tomorrow. Here is a few pics of the kids when they ventured out on Tuesday. It was pouring sleet and they did not stay out very long because of how cold it was. Dalton and Lyric were a little disappointed that they could not make a snowman because it was mostly ice. Although they did enjoy sliding down the slide that had a solid sheet of ice on it. That is until Dalton landed the wrong way and got ice burn. Owwwwww!

Today while I was feeding Samara some sweet potatoes she fell asleep! I couldn't resist taking a picture.

Halloween Fun!

We had a great time taking the kids trick or treating last night. We also stopped by the Baptist church and had hotdogs and let the kids play a few games. They had a blast. I don't know if they had more fun trick or treating or giving candy to the trick or treaters that came to our door. The kids ended the night on a sugar high playing with glow sticks that I had bought them.

Feisty Leopard


Mr. Incredible

Baby Leopard

My cute kids!

Samara & Ava ditched their costumes because it was to hot. Samara was tired and cranky by this point but Ava was all smiles! She was excited about her first Halloween!

Pumpkin Painting

I decided that I would let the kids paint their pumpkins this year instead of carving them. Less mess and less work!!! They had a great time and I took a few pictures during the process.

Dalton's pumkin

Lyric's pumkin.

I painted Samara's for her!

I hope everyone has a safe and happy Halloween!

Sleep

Sleep is a big topic at our house right now for several reasons.

Lyric is just a little over 4 years old and has decided that she no longer needs a nap. This is way different from Dalton. I think he would still take an afternoon nap if he could! So I have changed nap time to quiet time here lately. The only problem with that is who has ever known Lyric to do anything quietly. So I am constantly telling her to be quiet during quiet time. The upside to this is that she is more than ready for bed by 8:00 each night and sometimes even earlier.

Samara turned 3 months a few weeks ago and went from sleeping from 9:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. to waking up every couple of hours. I thought that it was just a growth spurt but this getting up several times during the night is continuing. She also has started taking little cat naps in the afternoon instead of a nap for an hour or two. At times I try to let her fall asleep on her own but she usually will fall asleep after crying and then wake up 15 to 20 minutes later. This is frustrating to me. I did not think that her crying would bother me but it does so I usually just pick her up and console her which means I am not getting much rest day or night between Samara's sporadic sleeping and Lyric's "not so quiet" time. My mom thinks it is probably time that I move Samara into her own room and that we would sleep better but I am struggling with that so for right now I will just continue to be a little sleep deprived. They are only this little once! My goal is to have her sleeping in her own room by the time I go back to work in January which is getting closer and closer.