Post Easter Dinner Wii Dance Party

Easter Morning

Coloring Easter Eggs

Today Ryan and Ava had a special date coloring Easter Eggs - They both loved dropping the eggs in the different colors and then adding stickers when the colores had dried. They took turns and were so patient! And what do you do once Easter eggs are done? Have a dance party of course!

Unconditional Love

"Mommy, I love you. And even when I am grown up and in college, I will still love you."

Road Rage

Ryan: Mommy, why are all of these people not going if it's a green light?" Me: "Ryan, the traffic is just backed up a little bit so they can't move." Ryan: "These people are acting like they have never gotten in their cars and driven before!"

20th century kid

"Ryan, we are flying on the airplane next week but I'm not sure I can bring the DVD player, it might be too big."

"That's ok, Mommy. Just bring your Ipod and I can watch movies on that!"

Last morning together

Stories with Grandma

Playground!

After naps today, we took advantage of the warm spring like temperatures, and headed to a local playground, where the fun continued!

Storyville

After the Home Depot workshop, Grandma, Ryan, Lizzie and I continued on to a local branch of the Baltimore County Public Library that is the home to "Storyville." Storyville is a wonderful play area for kids at the library - it has play areas for just about anything you can imagine! There is a pretend grocery store, puppet theatre, kitchen, doll area, laundry/cleaning, grill, pretend garden, post office, and the list goes on. There are also books everywhere for the kids to read while they play. We could have stayed there all day and the kids were in constant motion the entire time we were there. We feel so lucky to live near such a great (and free!) place!

Just like Papa

Today we all went to Home Depot, where Ryan and Lizzie attended a kids workshop. They each were able to choose a project to work on and thanks to a lot of help from Papa, Grandma and Daddy (I documented the event), they came home with 2 new creations - Lizzie made a butterfly house, and Ryan made a race car. Lizzie wasn't too sure about the experience at first, but Ryan dug right in and donned his goggles right away. They both ended up having a great time!

Cousins

Last night, after much anticipation (and much traffic!), Ryan's Grandma, Papa and cousin Lizzie arrived in town to visit for a few days. We were all so excited to see them, and Ryan was extra excited to have a few days with his cousin, Lizzie, who is only 3 days older than him. Lizzie's only request for the weekend? "I want to eat breakfast at the Mickey Mouse table." So, that's exactly what they did today, on their first morning together, before getting down to business and playing in the basement. I think it's going to be a fun weekend for these two!

Happy Valentine's Day!

The Valentine Ryan made me in school:

In case you can't decipher it, he wrote "Ryan Loves You." Above that is a picture he drew of our family. Daddy is on the left, Mommy is on the right, and Ryan is the smaller figure drawn in between and below them. Should I be offended that in every picture Ryan draws of our family, I am always drawn the largest? :)

Hallmark Holiday

Ryan and I have been discussing Valentine's Day a lot lately - he picked out Toy Story Valentines for his friends at school and a special Princess card for his girlfriend, Ava. I explained to him that Valentine's Day is about love and is a time to tell people that you love them. This morning while I was making my coffee for work, he was watching TV and yelled to me - "Mommy, Valentine's Day ISN'T about saying I love you!" I said to him "Yes, it is. Why do you say that?" He yelled back "On TV they said it's not the time to say I love You!" I assumed he misheard or misunderstood something on TV and I corrected him "No, they are saying it IS the time to say I love you." "Oh" he said, but didn't sound too convinced. This afternoon, I was running on the treadmill listening to Pandora Radio, and a Hallmark commercial came on. It started out: "Valentine's Day is NOT about saying I love you...." I should have known better than to doubt Ryan!