The Easter Pinata

In addition to the traditional egg hunt and Easter ham, this year we introduced the Easter pinata. Actually, it was left over from Danielle's 18th birthday party, and it was a big hit (so to speak.)

Miles - contemplating it's weak spot

Giving it her wildest shot. Notice the distance everyone gave her.

Dave was in charge of swinging it around to confuse the older participants...

...like Dani

Eli finally put the poor thing out of it's misery.

I now have all of my candy ready to pass out at Halloween. If you think that's gross, then avoid our house.

Eli the Court Jester and Brandon

There was also some serious bubble blowing going on

Sarah and my cousin Michael are getting married on the 25th

Happy Easter (last week) from the Tardy Poster and Family

Resurrection Sunday

Check It

Amalah was really funny today - mostly because I have a child who speaks Toddlerese myself...

The Toddlerese Phrasebook

Enjoy!

ps - Easter pictures are coming, but why would I post them so soon? Really, people.

Asian Bunco

Jen hosted this month and we feasted on orange chicken, oriental chicken salad and yummy eggrolls. The green tea and mango ice cream was a personal favorite of mine.

Gaynor and Kelley - Gaynor came as a tourist. Ha!

Robyn and Nicole - she managed to borrow this fabulous Korean dress from Kelly.

The tables were beautiful - she apparently went covert and clipped some of the flowers from her neighbor's tree. It was totally worth it.

There were Chinese lanterns hung from the ceiling

My winnings

It's a good thing we're all adults about it.

I'm Pretty Sure That Pluto Made Me A Bad Mom... Or It Could Be All Of The Blameshifting

Pluto, the planet (or star) not the dog. Kate had a project due for school and the subject was planets. Now, I brought this on myself, people. A few months back, her teacher asked them to draw and write about what they wanted to learn in the spring. Well, "what do you want to learn about?" is a difficult question to ask a 4 year old and I think she said, "scorpions" at first and that was just because we were talking about scorpions right then and please don't ask why - I don't remember - so then I had her draw "something" and she finally drew a sun and I jumped on PLANETS! THAT'S A GREAT IDEA and it will look good to Mrs. Deb. Sooooo, it's my fault.

Josh found a website on planets and lo and behold - here comes the Big Debate On Whether Pluto Is Now A Star Or Still A Planet. The internet apparently is split on this issue and we had to come up with 5 facts which one of them SHOULD be how many there are. Dang.

In the end, we wrote 8 - with Pluto being a star. I thought it was funny that I probably screwed it up and apologized to Deb just in case I was wrong. Oh, and a lady in Miles' planes and trains class gave me a whole mean-voiced lecture on how it was a DWARF PLANET and how dare I be so stupid.

Here's the project - do you like the ring around Saturn? She did a great job.

I'm not sure what the final preschool verdict on the number of planets was - all I know is that next time, we're picking scorpions.

Spring Cleaning

I've never really done the "wild spring break" thing. Once, I went to Rocky Point... with my mom... and two consecutive years were spent in surgery - one being wisdom teeth. Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure that I spent most - if not all- spring breaks with her. I guess that's a surefire way to keep some of those chicks off Girls Gone Wild...

This was Kate's first spring break, so Josh and I decided to send the kids up north to get some quality time with Grandma Cheryl while we stayed here and got the house under control. My mom came over to help, so I figured, in a way, we were keeping with tradition.

My Master List - I adore checking things off just about as much as filling out forms. And yes, it was color coded.

Everything looked so clean and organized, so I thought that I'd better take pictures to prove it before the crazies came home.

Garage

Our closet

Kate's room

Anybody remember the drama concerning the wall stripes???

My mom has been giving me Precious Moments ever since I can remember and we had fun remembering what each one symbolized. I'm not a collector by nature, but now we've been buying them for Kate as well and I hope she'll want to pass them down to her daughter someday.

Miles' room - I borrowed an idea from a fancy schmancy baby boutique and made my own letters.

They're both safely home and in their beds. Next year... Cabo... with my mom.

Can You Hear Me Now?

Since Jen and I love all things gross, Heather's mom appeased us by helping us do something that we've dreamed of for a while... getting our ears candled. It's so weird...

The candles are actually made of rolled muslin dipped in paraffin wax. You stick one side in your ear and light it. The vacuum effect sucks out the melted ear wax and it dries inside the candle. I know, I know... you hate me right now.

The pie pans were to ensure that our hair didn't catch on fire.

Sick. Yet I'm strangly fascinated.

Jen took hers home in a baggie to show Sean. Seriously.

After that we Biore'd our noses - Heather at least participated in that one. I should have taken my leftover Epil-Stop hair removal stuff over there. Dang.


Hey, Dad? Mom says you're next - on account that you can't hear nothin'.

Go Suns!

Josh took Kate on a date to see the Suns. He had been waiting to take her since the moment she was born...

What game wouldn't be complete without a huge bag of cotton candy?

This picture is for Heather.

She was prepared - she knew that Shawn Marion is now playing "for another Suns team."

I hope this was Kate's idea. Seriously, she has high expectations for a career in cheering. She'll be wearing a turtleneck under her outfit though.

Kate also tracked down the "girl who sang for her country," aka - the lady who sang the National Anthem.

New friends

And now, for your enjoyment....