I have mentioned how J is obsessed with hot & cold? Well whenever he sees a mug he raises his hand in the ‘stop’ gesture. He does this all the time, multiple times. Daddy taught him about cold. As i was icing my knee he came over and touched the ice pack, said ‘cold’ (sounded like gold) and shook his head like we did when we immitated shivering. Too cute.

I had a lovely snuggle session with my kids on the couch today. I was lying down, J was on me, and R was snuggled beside me, with my head in her lap. We had some good giggles.

Here J is wearing the ‘hardware’ pants I made him, and in the picture above he is making his famous ‘piggy lips’.

What’s with these words?? J’s new words. He is fascinated with birds, and likes to point them out. Today he climbed towards a friend with a panda on her shirt, and told her “bear”. He also L-O-V-E-S to touch cups. He makes the ‘stop’ sign for hot, and knows he isn’t supposed to touch hot things, and recently learned ‘cold’, in relation to cold cups he likes to touch….He’s also very very wiggly. I stopped by the library today, thinking i could take a few minutes to pick out some books for me, well litte J man had other ideas. He “lodle-lodle-lodled” with increasing volume. I kept trying to shush him, but a librarian came over and told me she enjoyed hearing it! Anyways, near the paperbacks he got even louder, and it wasn’t so cute. I have to grab books and run…

Oh, in the pic R is feeding J noodles from a thermos. Sweeties.

Aren’t my kids just the cutest? You have to understand I only got pics of J smiling because R was climbing around on my back at the time being extremely silly.

Here he is signaling ‘More, more” as in more of R’s goofiness.

R is always up for posing for the camera, especially when I let her do what she will and I just snap away.

Oh, how gorgeous is she?

Here is my last easter picture. I’m so happy with the way they turned out.

This will go down as one of those things that I will never, ever do it again. I sewed this bathrobe for R. I was suckered in with the beautiful fabric. It’s called Minky, and boy is it every soft and cuddly. When she was around 3 I bought her a bathrobe in a size 5. Granted, she wore it until this year, but I knew its time was running out. I was lured in with the fabric, and hooked for good with a ‘simple’ bathrobe pattern. The thing that was so awful was that for every cut I made, the fabric gave off fluff. And I mean serious fluff, hot pink fluff. I realized the problem after the first cut, but then I was already committed. So on I went. Every time I sewed, I had to break out the vaccum. It’s been a nasty week of sewing, but I’m finally done…and I’m happy to report I’ve finally gotten to put the vaccum away. 🙂

Today was a mixed bag of weather. The morning was rainy, but the sun managed to come through by afternoon. R needed new runners, so we went to the mall together. She decided she wanted runners that had laces. I was pushing the velcro ones, but she was determined. I must say I was quite amazed at how quickly she can tie her own laces. She looked so grow up with lace up runners!
In the afternoon family came over and we had a little egg hunt with the kids. Here are the pictures.

R in hunting egg mode…

Cousin Z hunting for eggs

Small boy collecting eggs

Uncle B and Z counting eggs to see if any got missed

R and J counting eggs

3 cuties after the egg hunt

Today was Palm Sunday. Our church had the same procession of children waving palm branches as we do every year. Every year I find it just as sweet.