Getting Ready for Easter

Yesterday was the Easter parade at Gabby's school. It was a blustery day but the kids did a great job of singing and marching in their parade. They had a small party yesterday and today is the big Easter egg hunt and party. Gabby took yummy strawberries for the party and was all decked out in pink (with her Easter bunny shirt on). We also took the Country Bunny for her teacher to read.

Lilly likes her birthday suit! We try to let her run around naked more and more now that the weather is warming up but it is hard because she pees everywhere! She LOVES being naked and I am sure will spend a lot of the summer this way. She has taken to the trampoline and after school really enjoys swinging, going for a bike ride, playing in the yard or walking in the street....I know! She loves to be outside and it is nice to all hang out as a family. Monday Lilly moves to a new classroom. She has been there for 2 weeks now but it is official on Monday. She cries when she has to go to the infant room now! She loves to play on the slides and jungle gym at school and gets to go outside 2 times a day. The teacher said they were worried about her because she is petite but then saw that she can hold her own and nobody's worried anymore. In her new class, she sits at a table to eat...so at home, she has now started to scream if we put her in her high chair. She wants to sit at the table next to Gabby, with a plate and eat whatever Gabby or we are eating. She is getting to be such a big girl! But it is too funny to watch her climb on the table (we have a kids picnic table that the 2 girls enjoy eating breakfast together at) and eating like a big kid. Her teeth seem to have grown a lot lately and I think her bottom teeth are past the most painful phase so it is nice that everyone is sleeping a little better - in fact, everyone slept until 6:30 this morning!!! We thought we were on vacation :)

Werdel's Easter Party

This past weekend was the Werdel's annual easter egg hunt. Gabby and I colored and decorated 18 eggs and they sparkled with all the glitter we used! The Werdel's do such a wonderful job with this party. It was the day before St. Patrick's Day so Lilly was our good luck charm while Gabby wanted to dress in a flower easter dress. Lilly got the hang of hunting for eggs and Gabby was determined to find one of the four golden eggs. Two times we were right next to the perso that found them...but we did not. It is a hard lesson and one that we are teaching her - we don't always win. A few tears later, we were back to loving the party. It was amazing how much she understood this year about the golden eggs and how hard she looked for them. Fun to watch the kids grow and change each year. Gabby participated in the egg on a spoon race as well. Lilly just sat in the grass and ate goldfish and went down the slide.

This was the second party of the day since we had an incredible party at the park in the morning. Both girls were partied out - or maybe it was the parents that were!

Tough Week

It may look hard to believe by looking at these pictures....but last week was a TOUGH week. It was one of those weeks that makes us stop and wonder how this will be in a couple of months!?!?  It all started with an ear infection....Lilly had been yanking at her ears for a couple of days so I finally broke down and took her to the pediatrician. She gave me some antibiotics - but a step up from the standard amoxicillin. Well...Lilly immediately developed a yeast infection, diarrhea and threw up everywhere 2 out of the 4 times I gave it to her. So I said no more of that medicine. Called the Dr. and requested the basic amoxicillin. I got the yeast infection cleared up and thought we would be on the road to recovery...boy was I wrong. Lilly's stomach must have been so raw that she could not handle any more medicine because she got the worst case of diaper rash she has ever had and diarrhea that lasted for almost 4 days. When we couldn't keep anything in her, we decided to stop all medicine and went to the health food store and got the Garlic Oil. I believe it really helped - even though she smelled like a clove of garlic! The icing on the cake for poor Lilly is that she has 2 bottom molars breaking through. Her gums are swollen and very red and you can see the teeth breaking skin - she just must be in so much pain! So...needless to say, it was a challenging week with Lilly. Then - the flu started going around Gabby's class and sure enough, she woke up one night and had thrown up in the bathroom sink. We kept her home the next day but she appeared to be feeling well enough for school the next. We sent her and she promptly ate a green cupcake and proceeded to throw it up everywhere! So, Thursday Lilly was sent home from school with diarrhea and Gabby was sent home throwing up. Which meant both girls could not go to school on Friday. Thank goodness the weather has been beautiful. I loaded the girls into the stroller and we walked to the park - just to get out of the house and to enjoy the sun. Something about swings and slides that makes little ones smile :)

Lilly has recovered but has entered the "Mommy" stage. She is also extremely independent and is developing a strong point of view on certain things. For example: she will stand at the refrigerator and tell us she wants food, go to her high chair when she wants to eat, she sits on her bike when she wants to go for a bike ride around the block and let's us know that she wants to read a book. She is starting to talk more and more and has a couple of words - definetly says "duck", "cow", "thank you" (when she hands you something), "Gabby", and "that". Lilly chases her sister around the playground and really enjoys the slides. She has started to only want to eat food that is on our plates so we are adjusting...as it is with kids!

Gabby is back to her self this morning and is a great animal doctor. She LOVES Doc MucStuffins right now and we have seen them all! She walks around doctoring us, her animals and anything she can! It is too cute.