Bringing out the Bumbo

I remember when Katelynn was little and the bumbos were a big deal. Before she was old enough for one, I used to think they were such a waste of money- 40 bucks for a chair?!! I soon realized how nice it would be to have one and went out and got her one (in pink of course). We used that bumbo so much, even for things like a traveling highchair. She loved sitting in it and it helped to have something so portable. We have actually kept hers and she still sits in it for fun when I'm doing laundry in the basement. (We'll get rid of it once Justin outgrows his but we figure she may want to sit in it when he is in his.) My mom brought Justin a blue one when she came this weekend and it already has been very useful. Justin hasn't already outgrown the newborn phase of just laying around. When we're outside, he wants to be able to see everything that is going on. It was nice to be able to plop him in the grass and have him be able to take in all the play his sister was engaging in. I think we'll be using this a lot for our park playdates!

We're still here!

I just wanted to send a quick update since it's been almost a week since I have posted. My mom is visiting from GA so we have been busy spending time with Grandma and enjoying her while she has been here. She leaves today... her visits are never long enough!! I have a bunch of pictures so hopefully I'll get those posted tonight or tomorrow. We do have some friends coming on Thursday for a visit for the weekend so I may not be posting again this weekend, but I promise to jump back into posting almost daily starting next week!!

Out to the Ballgame!

A great childhood memory for me was attending the Detroit Tigers games. I was one of their die hard fans when they weren't a very good team at all. My mom would take my brother and I.. and a lot of times some friends to the Tigers game every season, and I always had so much fun. Other than maybe one Braves game, I haven't been since junior high. North Carolina doesn't have a professional baseball team, but the Carolinas have a minor league team called the Knights. We went today with another friend from playgroup and had a really good time. There were 6,000 people in attendance, but it still wasn't very crowded and we got to be within the first few rows of the front at 3rd base. I have never been so close to the game before. It was great! This was Katelynn's (and Justin's for that matter) first game and it took her a bit to understand what was going on. She doesn't have it all down pat yet, but when we got home, she wanted to play baseball, and I was shocked at how much she had took in of the players holding their bat. She already had her very own stance down, much like she had watched today. At bedtime tonight she requested that we play baseball again tomorrow. I'll have a baseball fan in no time! :)

Goodnight!

Katelynn's Grandma and Grandpa Miller bought her some princess jammies and slippers that she had to make sure to wear to bed tonight. Here she is posing before going night-night.

Just thought I would share one of my favorite pictures of Justin asleep on his daddy a few nights ago too!

Happy Easter!

We had a great Easter! The Easter bunny came and left the kids lots of goodies and hid eggs. Katelynn was so excited about all the stuff in her basket that it was a bit of work reminding her to find the eggs. She would find one egg and say, "I got them all!" We would have to point her in the direction of another and then she would repeat herself. 40 eggs later, she HAD found them all. Since we're not huge on candy around here (well, we do love it, but we try to limit it), the Easter Bunny filled the eggs with money for K's piggy bank, stickers, little farm animals, and little squishy bugs.

I had Easter outfits for the kids, but we didn't even venture out past the back yard today so I never put them in their easter best. Oh well.. I guess at least they were a little dressed up for their visit with the Easter Bunny a few weeks ago.

Loot from the Easter Bunny

Katelynn's new swim goggles that she decided she had to wear for breakfast. Everything about this picture cracks me up. She had hair inside her goggles covering her right eye and her face was covered with candy coating from her candy necklace.

A fun-filled day!

Today was a busy and fun day! We started out by attending an Easter egg hunt at a nearby church. They had games outdoors, face painting, and a balloon animals. The hunt for Katelynn's age group was held indoors since it had rained the night before and was still pretty wet. They didn't want the kids to fall and get wet... well, leave it to Katelynn to still manage to slip and fall in a puddle BEFORE the egg hunt. I almost had her attend the older age group hunt since she was already wet, but I wanted her to have a good chance at getting a bunch of eggs.

Here's a picture of her wet butt after her run in with a very big mud puddle.
Mommy and the kids (One day mommy will have enough time to get herself ready so that she can wear makeup and not look awful in pictures.)

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After lunch, we went to Katelynn's friend Tanner's 2nd birthday party at a gymnastics center. It was super fun.. even for mommy who did a little trampoline jumping myself. There were lots of activities to do there, but Katelynn prefered to just hang out on the trampoline most of the time!

Daddy tossing Katelynn into the foam pit.

Let's dye some eggs!

That's exactly what we did tonight... well, we dyed easter eggs and we just might have had a bit

of a catastrophe and dyed our brand new tiled counter top pink too. Daddy is NOT happy with us for that one. I have tried about every cleaner in this house and there is still a pink tint in the grout. Oopsie. Anyone have a miracle cleaner that will take pink dye out of tan grout??

We had a blast coloring the easter eggs though! Katelynn mainly liked just dropping the eggs in and out of the different cups and making splashes. When all two dozen eggs I had boiled were done, she still wanted to dye more so I just let her keep dunking the same ones that were already done. We finally had to call it quits for bedtime though!

Justin even had a mild interest in the eggs as he was reaching to grab them while posing for a picture. He must have figured they were pretty neat since his big sister couldn't stop shoving egg after egg that she had dyed in his face!

Katelynn was so excited when she figured out how to pull the eggs out of the dye with the holder. She thought it was the coolest thing ever!