Easter

Easter was a blast this year! Emme is now old enough to enjoy Easter Egg hunts and all that comes along with it, she had so much fun! Brian and I always say how we love watching Emme having fun and she sure had her fill of fun. We did a pre Easter Egg hunt at our house on Saturday to get her used to the idea and then she had two more on Sunday. She was a pro by the second one, she knew exactly what to look for and was running around grabbing as many eggs as she could. Her favorite were the ones with M&Ms in them of course. I think Easter was like Christmas for her, she got so many nice things from us, Nanny and Papa, and Heidi's parents as well. Stella got a basket too but Emme opened it for her of course. Next year will really be great with both of them running around!


We went to a Easter Parade on Friday with our friends Marie, Alex, and Gavin. Emme and Gavin had such a good time watching the parade and dancing to the music. She was clapping the whole time and would break out into spontaneous dancing whenever she heard music. After the parade, we went to the carnival they had at the community center by our house and she got to jump in the bouncy houses, ride on the rides, and watch our friend's little girl dance.

The Easter Bunny

I had an idea of how the Easter Bunny visit was going to go this year, and I didn't think it would turn out well. Santa Claus was in a word traumatizing this past Christmas to Emme when she got her picture taken with him so I figured the Easter Bunny would go down the same way. To my pleasant surprise, it actually turned out great! We brought both the girls to get their picture taken with him at the mall and no one was there when we went luckily so we had a few minutes to gradually introduce him to Emme and make her feel my comfortable. I put Stella on his lap first, and then I had Emme sit down. I could tell she was kind of weirded out by him which I really can't blame her but she didn't scream or cry, she just gave a blank stare for the most part which was fine by me as long as their wasn't a meltdown. Stella would have been smiling because she always smiles for everything but she was just sleeping before I plopped her down. I feel good we are making progress since Christmas and the funny thing is that now, Emme gets super excited whenever she sees the picture of the bunny and her on his lap, she smiles and points at it and seems really thrilled with him. Easter = success this year!

Nanny, Papa, and Auntie Mo Visit!

Brian's family just left from visiting this past week and how sad we were to see them go. Especially on my part I think, I have a hard time after family leaves. We don't have any family in town and it's always hard to say goodbye after a nice visit with either my family or Brian's. I love having a full house where I can cook nice meals for people everyday, and most of all, I just love having the company and hearing a house full of people. Brian works 1 to 11 pm so for me, it was great having the company since I'm usually by myself a good portion of the day and all night.

We had so much fun with Brian's mom and dad, Jerry and Maureen and we even got Auntie Monica in town for the weekend which was great too. Emme had the best time ever with everyone, she loves company too. I think she gets sick of boring old Mom at times so she loves having people to play with and be silly with. Auntie Mo is just the silly person she needs sometimes I think! Most of the visit we just relaxed and enjoyed each other's company. We did do a few things like go to the park and take Brian's parents up North to look at the area we eventually wanna buy a house around. It was just perfect weather when everyone was here as well which is a definate bonus, we spent most of our time outside relaxing and having our meals. I love this time of year! Now we will be counting down the days until we see everyone again in September for our next visit.

Spring Training 2010

This year was great for spring training baseball. Brian had work off and we took the girls to a Cubs game. Emme loved it this year because she is of course so much older now and could run around up and down the hill on the grass and play around while we watched the game, or tried to watch the game I should say, in between chasing after a toddler and taking care of a baby. Stella did really well too. I just love getting them outdoors to do something fun. We always go every year with my friends Heidi and Robin and their kids who are the same age as Emme and Stella. It's definately alittle busier now adays taking two kids as opposed to a few years ago where it was just us who would go and relax, how times have changed!