Here Comes Peter Cottontail!

My kids are soooo freakin' cute! Oh.. you already knew that?! Well, one can never say or hear that too many times!

(Notice Evie's new haircut? We took 4 inches off of the length and cut lots of layers around the face.. it stays so bouncy and pretty now!)

I dressed them in their new Easter outfits and took some pictures at home and then Joe and I took them to see the Easter Bunny at the mall. This was Evan's FIRST visit with the bunny and I was afraid that he may be nervous but he was pleasantly suprised by the bunny and looked up at his face and smiled.. playfully stuck his tongue out.. and smiled pretty for pictures and video. Evie, of course, loves the bunny as well.








Joe took a couple of videos but I thought I'd just share this short one..


And here are a couple of pictures of me and my kiddos!




So Easter is just a week away! We have no big plans.. in fact I was just asking my mother-in-law if anything was going on with the family.. she said.. "nope! Wanna come over?" So I guess that's what we are up to! We do have an Easter Egg Hunt here in Mahomet that we registered Evie for on Saturday before Easter.. so that should be fun... IF the weather isn't freezing cold with snow.. you never know here in the midwest. We've had two days of 60 degree weather followed by today, which is cold, rainy and windy.. feels like 30 degrees.. I have no clue what it really is.

Anyway.. hope everyone has a nice week and a great Easter!

(And thanks to my friend, Hope for helping me pick out the outfits for the kids! Even if you did put Evan's back because you didn't like it and didn't even ask me if I wanted to keep it! LOL That was too funny! Glad I kept it! He got lots of compliments on his tie at the mall today!)

Later all!

Sick and Tired

No pictures or videos today... just feel like venting for a brief moment.
Last Thursday night Evie started with a cold.. hoarsy cough which left her without a voice the next day (that was nice) ;) and now a slight runny nose.. she seems to be getting better.. but no amount of handwashing, covering mouth, even to the point of making her wear surgical masks around the house, could prevent Evan from getting sick. :( He is miserable.. again. At least he is sleeping through the night with it but when he wakes he cries and cries.. he hates having his nose suctioned.. but I have to do it. He seems tempermental.. one moment he's happy.. you lean over to kiss him or mess with him in the slightest, he throws a tantrum. It just boils down to him being tired of being sick. And I'm tired of it too.. Joe informs me this morning as he's leaving for work that he can't lean in to give me a goodbye kiss because he has this cold of theirs.. HELLO!!! I get coughed and spit at all day long by two kids! AAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!! I told him that I think Mother Nature has a way of taking care of other mothers so that they can care for their ENTIRE sick families. Luckily, I seem immune to all of their sicknesses.. it better stay that way.. or I might just snap! LOL
But what do I do? I can't NOT send my daughter to school.. (where all of these illnesses are harvested), just to MAYBE stay germ free for a few days.. we just may have to go to the grocery store where everyone else who is sick goes.
I need a vacation.. someplace warm.. where the colds and flus and bronchitis don't flourish.
My friend, Kylla is taking a cruise soon.. think I may stow away in her suitcase.

Speaking of teeth.....

I should start off by telling you that my baby boy has TWO bottom front teeth now...

But this post isn't about Evan.. imagine that!

My Evelyn has gotten her 6 year molars in the past couple of days! Last month, I saw what looked like two vampire bites on her gums behind her back teeth on the bottom.. I thought it was a canker sore until I noticed it on the other side of her mouth as well. Then within a few days they were white bumps.. and now on her left side almost a full tooth! I called the dentist last month and asked the receptionist and they seemed clueless.. they said that sometimes kids get extra teeth.. I explained that she already had 20 teeth.. they weren't phased.. so I didn't worry. I asked a few friends and finally, I think it was Kylla, who said that she talked to some other friends who said it would be her 6 year molars... sure enough.. that's what they are!

Anyway.. I tried to take pics of them.. (I know.. teeth aren't exactly photogenic) but I was amazed at these big ole teeth.. my camera just couldn't capture it in her dark mouth but my Flip Video could!

Now I know.. you're probably getting tired of videos arlready but I'm telling you, this camera is so quick and easy to use... I can't pass up the opportunities to share this stuff!

So.. Here's a small snippet of Eve's mouth for ya!

Lunch with friends

We had a playdate/lunch with a bunch of friends yesterday at a local pizza place..
This video has Evan, Evie and Mama's buddies in it!
You may recognize yourself or one of your kids in this! And by the way.. Rhylan's smile is so adorable!

Dinner conversation

Well.. this was after dinner... Evan was being a sweety and I captured enough smiles that I wanted to share this video.. don't mind me being silly... that's just the way I talk to Evan Wevan :o)

Inside fun.. on the beach?

Evie just loves her Tinkerbell umbrella that she got for Valentine's Day from her grandparents. Yesterday, during a huge snow storm, I told her that we had to leave to go pick up baby brother from Grandma's.. Evie had a blanket sprawled out on the floor and her umbrella open laying on it's side.. she was laying underneath of it.. I tried to get her moving so that we could go and she said, "Oh No! I was just getting comfortable on the beach here under my umbrella! It's so cold out in the snow.. I wanna stay here on the sand and sun where it's warm!" Well.. I found it hard to argue with that! I got underneath of it for a few minutes and enjoyed the salty sea air. LOL (Vivid imaginations in this house!) Then we bundled up and left the "beach" behind to go out into the snow.

So today, Evie invited bro for a little play under the umbrella. He thought it was pretty cool.






Stay warm everyone! However you do it!

Some candids of my baby boy

Does this guy look happy? This picture is TOO FUNNY!
He didn't want to wear the hat frontwards.. if I turned it around, he was okay with it... smart kid! And oh so fashionable!







And here are a few from Monday Mania this morning.



Again.. not so happy.. but Evie always cheers him up!