Logan's new naptime routine

We moved Logan into his big boy bed a couple of weeks ago. Cameron convinced him one night that he wanted to sleep in his big boy bed. That was all it took. Logan decided at that moment
that there was no going back to the crib. Until the next morning...
I decided that I was not done with his naps and so he slept in the
crib for his naps for nearly two weeks. Then one day Cameron
suggested to his brother that he take a nap in his big boy bed.
Darn kid! Logan agreed with his brother and refused (screaming
hysterically at me when I tried to put him in the crib). When I
could understand him, he was shouting, "big boy bed! big boy bed!"
What do you do then?! We told him he is a big boy and now he wants to be one! So for a few days he just did not take naps.
By about 3:30 every afternoon, he reached his point of expiration. But instead of falling asleep, he just turned into a bear. So the next day we tried a new trick. I gave him his passifier and his blanket and put him up on my bed to watch the movie he can't live without (Go, Diego, Go when Diego saves the elephants from an evil magician-Logan has this thing for elephants). After a record setting 3 minutes, he was passed out (he literally fell over when he could no longer hold his eyelids open!) I thought this certainly had to be a fluke, but tried it the next day. Amazingly, I got the same results! So we now have a new nap time routine!

movie night

Andy was camping this weekend with the youth, so we had a movie night. This was such a special night for the kids that I decided to take some pictures. I just thought this picture of Briley is hilarious. She is so intent on the preview for the movie Spiderwick. The preview was really scary for the kids. Logan even stopped shoving popcorn in his mouth! Cameron was terrified and so he was covering his eyes, but still curious enough to peek!

Easter

I couldn't help taking a few pictures of the kids all cute and dressed. Ok, so I took over 50 pictures in about a minute and half! But I got a cute one and I didn't have to do anything in photoshop! My dad sent the little wind up rabbit Briley is holding. She felt it was an important addition to their little portrait!







The kids had a great time with their Easter egg hunt this afternoon. They found jellybeans and Rolos in most of their eggs. Logan only picked up about three eggs. He was really in it for the candy. As soon as he found an egg, he opened it, ate the candy, bailed on the egg and moved on!




Briley had a great time chasing after eggs. She is getting so big so fast. But she certainly still enjoys running around the backyard picking up eggs!
Emma was so great at sharing her eggs. When she saw that she had more than Cameron, she gave them to him as she found them. Or she pointed them out to the boys so they could pick up their own eggs.


Cameron really got into finding eggs. Most of his pictures were blurry because he was so fast and paused long enough to toss the egg in his basket and move on!

A new Easter tradition

We started a new Easter tradition this year. I hate coloring Easter eggs and then, what do you do with them all? The kids were grossed out by the dye that bleeds through the shell and so no one eats them. It seemed so wasteful. So we decided to do Easter cookies this year.


I don't know why I thought it was a good idea to give Logan his own bowl of frosting and spreader. The only reason that frosting made it to these cookies is because I put it on!



He really got into decorating his cookies. Ok, so he just ate some of everything rather than decorate!!
This was his plate of cookies when he was all done.



Cameron had a great time decorating his cookies. He had his own little bowl of frosting and after two cookies told me he needed more frosting. Those two cookies had about an inch of frosting each. So he had to take some off for his other cookies and then Briley gave him her extra frosting.Cameron actually went to bed with tummy ache later that afternoon. I kept telling him to quit eating so much or his tummy would hurt later. Does that make me a bad mom that I still let him do it?!

You can tell from this picture a little bit just how thick the frosting was.



Needless to say, they both had to go in the tub when finished!




Emma decided that the spreader wasn't necessary. Her fingers did the trick!

Here is her plate of cookies-a little less frosting than Cameron's, but not much!




Briley did great with hers-perfectly frosted and sprinkled!




And here is the mess left behind...
They decorated and bailed on the cleanup. I guess that makes them smarter than me!

My favorite hobby, revisted

In case you have been wondering where I have been and why there hasn't been any updates for a while, I have found a new hobby! I have been scrapbooking for a number of years now, but I have branched out into digital scrapbooking. I love it!!! It is so much faster (once I figured out a few tricks-some on my own and some from a friend who braved the waters first). This is just one layout, but I have done several others. The files are large so they take a long time to upload. So there is only one sample for now. I will share others in future posts.