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
- 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
.. 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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