Spring Break

It's spring break and Ray took the whole week off. So what are we doing with our large chunk of time together? Nothing, and it's AWESOME. No trip (no packing, driving, parking, flying, jet-lag, or $1200 worth of plane tickets). No home improvement project. No massive landscaping event. We're just hanging out! I took the older kids to a movie yesterday (Monsters vs. Aliens - cute, but has some of the same cruder humor that the Shrek movies have). We've started reading Harry Potter all together in the evenings.

Henry the Tidy: Probably the least well-known of the kings by that name, Henry the Tidy likes to keep a damp wash cloth on his high chair tray during meals so he can wipe his hands and face often.

All that tidiness (and a double ear infection, snotty cold, two teeth cutting, and a grimy cough) wears Henry out, and he has to crash now and again.

Our cute little guy saw Daddy wearing this camo hat today, and got all excited and started telling us (in Henry-ese) that Daddy was wearing "Papa hat! Papa hat!" Then HENRY wanted to wear the "papa hat".

Wiiiiiii! We're having so much fun! Spring break has included a fair bit of Wii play time. Happily (as we only have one nunchuck controller so far) the kids think it's lots of fun to watch each other play Wii Sports. And cute little "Me Too" sat up there and drummed while Lily played Guitar Hero.





And, because we had so much time... we did some pretty labor-intensive Easter eggs! During the boys' afternoon naps today, Lily and I made an absurdly large pile of stickers out of blue painter's tape and freezer paper. Then this evening, we stuck those painter's tape shapes onto hard-boiled eggs before dyeing them. The tape "mostly" kept the dye from getting on the eggs, so we "sort of" had white shapes where the stickers had been. There was some bleed-through at the edges, but the eggs still turned out bright and cheery! Gregory could not resist making a goofy face for the picture on the left. We tried. And on the right you can see Lily applying some of our tape stickers to one of her eggs. This really was a very fun project and great for the kids. And look what a fun, happy Easter egg collection we have now. Doesn't it make you want to come over to our house and have an Easter egg hunt?