Best Friends in the making...

My childhood best friend brought her little girl over to play. We hope our girls will be best friends too...

Lazy mornings...

Kay and Marissa snuggled in bed this morning.  It was wonderful...

Stealing snuggles...

Craig cracked the code on how to get a busy three year old to sit and snuggle for more than 10 seconds. Have the Easter Bunny bring nerds. Kay ate the whole box...one...nerd...at...a...time...

Before nerds, Kay was giving us tickets to "ride on the train" (kitchen table) to Admiralty station.

She found it...

Marissa has officially found her thumb. She has found it and sucked on it several times. Here we go again....

Sister fun

Kay showed Marissa how to play in the exercauser.

Sleepover!

Kay loved packing her suitcase to have a sleepover with Grandma. Craig and I loved having some one on one time with Marissa.

Five under 5 = One busy House!

We celebrated Easter at my brother's house.  Between our two families we have five kids under the age of five right now.  Charlie (age 4), Kay (age 3), Natalie (age 2), Darby (age 10 months), Marissa (age 5 months). Both girls are wearing Easter dresses my mom made for me when I was little.  We were not able to get together on Grandma's 60th birthday so we celebrated over the weekend.  The kids had a blast dying Easter eggs (complete with old t-shirts from Uncle Scott).  A few of them survived after being dropped onto the ground repeatedly!  The Easter Egg hunt was also a big hit.  Charlie found the "golden egg".  Good thing as he talked about it all weekend leading up to the hunt.  The littles (Darby and Marissa) enjoyed watching the chaos from the sidelines. 

Craig took Friday off work so we could spend some extra time as a family.  A 4.5 hour drive turned into a 8 hour drive after having to stop at urgent care for Kay.  She was not acting herself and by about 10 am on the drive she said her "ear hurt".  She quickly got worse so we took her to urgent care before the holiday shut everything down.  Poor girl had a double ear infection.  One of her ears ended up rupturing on Saturday and she started to feel much better once the pressure was down.  Craig and I have done a lot of traveling with kids and one thing we can say for sure... it is ALWAYS exciting.  You never know what to expect each trip.