God's gifts from the Easter season


Catching up from our days home since our vacation...

- Abel enjoying his birthday present from Aunt Catherine's family
... and it being especially applicable, since he just started watching Bob the Builder

 - Adrianna and Abel enjoying allergy-free French toast sticks
- Enjoying the puzzle from Aunt Catherine
 - Playing with the train parts from G.G. and Papa
 - Adrianna using our extra pasta dough to make letters, like she remembered from the American Girl story, Addie
 - Easter morning: He is risen!
... And reading about it with the kids
 ... And dressing Abel up





 - Adrianna being ready to cook with me
 - Easter eggs hunt


 - Grandpa making a special event of Adrianna helping him cut the pineapple
 ... And Grandpa and Grandma using delicious fruits as Easter treats



















- Each of us making resurrection bread with our dinner

- Our sewer line getting blocked
... And it being fixed fairly quickly for a reasonable price
- Adrianna's duck drawings
 - Abel's version of flowers (the one on the right :)
 - Bunny's eye needing to be repaired... again
 - Adrianna and Jenny creating a "fairy club"
 - Abel and Jack getting creative with a "bunker" of rocks
- And Abel now being the driver, rather than the passenger




-  Buying supplies to fix up a free bike we got for Abel
... And Abel thanking God for the supplies
 - Adrianna reading to us through dinner so that she could finish up her reading chart to earn another prize
 - "Mommy, look!"
 - Adrianna making Abel a get-well-card over breakfast, when Abel woke up with a tummy ache
 - Preparing the fish that Steve caught and shared with us
- Determined birds making a nest again
- Abel playing in the garage... making a parking lot?
 - Abel joining the girls for a fairy club lunch
 - Abel trying out his new bike... without training wheels

 - Taking the kids on an afternoon bus ride

-  Reading time with Grandma
- Game night with the grandparents
 - Abel so enjoying the tent and tunnel and tractors at Grandma's house
 ... And Adrianna enjoying the doll house



- Date night with my Scott
- Play group with Abel and Emmeline
... And Abel being old enough to really play with Emmeline
- Making straw necklaces during date afternoon with Adrianna
 - Abel asking to share his tractors with the baby I watch: "Mommy, can Matthew play with my tractors?"
- Adrianna using a picture to express her frustrated feelings
- Abel showing growth and improvement in our learning activities
 - Bean dip lunch
 - Adrianna creating "Aggie"month for our street


- Adrianna and Jenny trying to sing and write out the "Star Spangled Banner"
 - Abel using Ruthie as a hurdle
 - Scott playing Adrianna's songs on the piano
- Abel figuring out how to make a leaning tower
- Abel proudly sporting Adrianna's straw necklace
 - Game night with Adrianna and Jenny (Adrianna took the picture)
... And Abel hoping to join us before his bedtime
 - Making a green smoothie for the kids
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.. And their excited response to it

 - Spring time in our yard
 - Adrianna creating a snail shell collection
 - Attempting to make a garden plot
- Adrianna and Abel on the see saw
 - One last girls' night out before my dear friend Jen moves away

 - Family discussion time
 - Adrianna counting her pistachios by twos

- Abel responding, "If you go like this..." every time Adrianna asks him to share something

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