Coloring Easter Eggs

FYI, that's a plastic egg filling my child's face.

I think these photos are pretty self-explanatory.  One thing, though...the Ikea kids bowls are PERFECT for coloring eggs.  They come in all the same colors that egg dye comes in, and they hold about a cup of liquid. 

I found this letter from Chayce, waiting for 2011's holiday season.  I can see that at first she thought she'd appeal to the powers that actually deliver, but after deliberation, decided to go with a bit more faith.  If you can't read the image, it says:

Dear Mailman Santa,

I'd like a package of My Little Pony Christmas Set.

You have to love those kids!

New Kitchen?

So, uh, if you haven't heard, we're moving again!  Not the blog...the people.  We're packing up to be closer to our relatives, because we want our children to know them and love them as much as we do.  I know you can't force relationships, but if you met our families, you'd love them, too!  I've decided that once I get to where I'm going (and I've started unpacking, since I'm packing now...kind of...sort of...OK, not really) I would like to have this little fella hanging in my kitchen, right above my new best friend:

 

Muahaha!  Just think of the possibilities.  And though we don't get a lot of snow here in the Carolinas, we do get lots of snow where we're moving to.  My mother-in-law informed me that mixing snow with table salt and using it to pack around the machine makes it super cold, and is a wonderful way to make ice cream that is smooth and yummy.  Sigh.  We might have to have a flavor of the week post over on Searching For Simple!  Giddy.  Very Giddy.  By the way, I've already made mint ice cream without chips in it (I don't like my chocolate to get frozen), served with homemade fudge, and I've made some blueberry/strawberry mixed.  We're on a roll!

Paygisms

Playing with Payge today, I pretended to be a large carnivore: "roar!!!"

"Daddy, you not a rawr, you a piggy!"

More Spring Break! The Zoo.

Riding the "plane" to Africa.  The kids pretended the tram from the parking lot to the Africa exhibit was a flight.

Yes, mother...

Look!  Giraffes!  But we took photos of the cuter specimen.  You can see giraffes anytime, these kids are growing like weeds.

Elephant tracking helicopter on display.

Life-sized board game.  My darling pea-cess.

Friends.  :)

If only this really were how our children came into the world.

Hatched.

Spring Break!!

Watching ANNIE! while the Mommies went running.

Hanging out in front of the Fort Fisher Aquarium.  They hadn't gone in yet, so they were waiting, uh, patiently.

Zac, spying on the white (albino) alligator, Luna.

Check out the huge frog!!

Ohhhh, poison dart frogs!

One of my favorite photos that Nadine took of Megan.

Zac & Zoë learning about sea animals from the marine biologist.

Helping the littles reach the starfish.

I love this photo.  Chayce trying to get Zac to look at the camera so I'd put it away.

Then we attempted a group photo again...attempted.

Searching for shells!

Found some!

They were "building" a "fire" on the mussels.  With red dirt. 

Mommy and Chayce in front of the Atlantic Ocean.  Sigh.  It was sooo beautiful.

Throwing sand into the vast sea.

Zoë's favorite past time...

See?  She did it again!

Lounging!

Snuggling!

The toddlers, laying in the sand.

He WAS covered in sand...until Megan got to him.

Zac, after Zoë buried him, and Megan dumped water on him.

She laughed and laughed after getting him wet.  So did I.  ;)

More to come...

Three Cuties

Sigh.  I wanted a good photo of the kids, as the girls had a desire to have their hair "match" this morning.  Payge has ponies in too, but she wouldn't sit up and smile for me.  I think she's going to be one of those kids that gets all flustered when we tell her she's cute when she's angry.  :)