holy week

We have had a great start to the spring season!  Last weekend was jam-packed with a birthday party, a wedding, and a special trip for Andrew!  The week before we made a trip to the mall to visit a very special bunny...

Andrew almost likes this as much as the bunny!

Waiting for the bunny to arrive...

Happy Easter!

Andrew informed EB that he wants Hop for Easter (the movie).  He isn't asking for much else...besides jelly beans.  Because he is convinced that Easter bunnies poop jelly beans (if you've seen the movie, you know what I mean!)

Last weekend we attended a very fun 5th birthday party for a very special little mermaid...

These two have also known each other their whole lives... and Norah is another one of the sweetest little girls I know.  I have known Norah's mommy since I was in Kindergarten!  So it is certainly going to be fun sending these two off to Kdg in the fall!  How does time fly that fast?  Oh my.

Me and my special girl at the party.  Kerigan please stay just like this for a few more years, okay?

Before church on Palm Sunday

And who doesn't need bunny shoes?  They are an Easter staple!

I was so proud of my little man parading around the church last Sunday with his palm.  He was so excited!

Look at his sweet face holding up his palm during the "Hosana" song (third boy back on the right)!  It was too cute for words.  And yes, I'm the crazy mom with the giant camera at church... but I wasn't the only one!  (Craig says that doesn't make it okay!  Ha!)

I love his face- he was concentrating on something!

I seriously blinked and he just grew up!  He looks soooo big here!

Andrew has been super into coloring pictures lately.  When he gets to day care first thing in the morning that is the station he runs to.  He'll start getting excited in the car and say "I LOVE coloring!"  I am amazed just recently how good he really is at drawing pictures that really look like something!  He brought this dinosaur home the other day and I was pretty impressed!

In honor of his love and obsession with dinosaurs, after church we had lunch and took Andrew to a very special dinosaur exhibit!

He was definitely in his happy place!

It was called "Discover the Dinosaurs" and it was great because the kids actually got to touch them and sit on some of them!

This picture of him cracks me up because it just shows how excited and thrilled he was.  

It was time for Kerigan's nap but there was no way she could sleep with all this excitement!

She wasn't scared a bit and just rode along and stared at everything!

Andrew was so cute with his little scavenger hunt paper.  He loved looking at it and finding the dinosaurs on it.  He was very serious about it!

Posing with his scavenger hunt paper!  (I had a hard time getting him to put it away in the pictures!  He didn't want to let go of it!)

After too many pictures he started making silly faces and acting crazy when I tried to take his picture!  Ha!

A life size replica of a T-Rex!  Way cool!

Ha!

Then of course you could pay more money to play for 10 minutes on the jumpy houses and slides...

On the way home Andrew kept saying he needed a bath to get the germs off him!  Ha!  I had to chuckle...I've taught him well!  Craig just shook his head and said he was being brainwashed.  I said, "that's my boy!"  and I was extremely proud.  Ha!

Really though, these things were too cool not to let him play!  I'm all for him having fun... but I really do wish I could wash the kid in bleach sometimes!

It has been such beautiful weather lately I just can't get over it.  It really doesn't even feel like we had winter!  We barely had any snow this year, and such mild weather for this time of year.  The other night we grilled out and it was too beautiful NOT to eat on the deck!  (See, I told you Craig was a big dork and doesn't care what goes on the blog!  He even tries to ruin my pictures now!  Ha!)

I can't believe how fast time is flying.  Andrew only has 26 more days of preschool.  His class is doing an "ABC" countdown to the end of the year.  Fun things every day!  Yeah, then he "graduates" and will begin Kindergarten next fall.  I am pretty sure a box of kleenex won't be enough on the day of his preschool graduation.  The teacher always has so many neat things planned, I just can't wait to see it all.  But I guess I can wait... ya know?  I have so many thoughts on this topic that I'll have to share another time.

For now, I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter!  And even with all the bunnies, eggs, jelly beans and train rides this time of year brings... we won't forget what Easter really means.

And Jesus Christ our Lord was shown to be the Son of God when God powerfully raised Him from the dead by means of the Holy Spirit.  Through Christ, God has given us the privilege and authority to tell Gentiles everywhere what God has done for them, so that they will believe and obey him, bringing glory to His name.

Romans 1: 4-5

Happy Easter!

sibling love

Andrew and Kerigan have been having so much fun playing together lately.  Andrew enjoys the fact that she's a little older now, can crawl, and pretty much smiles whenever she sees him.

They like to "wrestle" with each other.  Andrew sometimes needs to be reminded that she is just a baby and to be gentle, but she is tough!

She is not usually phased by the things he does, which include squeezing her cheeks!

Sometimes, when she gets into his stuff, he'll take her by the legs and drag her across the floor.  She's not as fond of that!  Ha!

When he is on the couch she usually crawls right over to where he is and wants to be with him.  Most of the time, he likes to have her get up there with him and they "play."  He likes to lay down and have her crawl on him.  She usually slaps around at his face and head and he just giggles and encourages her!

Kerigan is loving TV lately!  Whenever his shows are on, she usually enjoys watching with him.  Here they are watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.  That is a favorite lately.

Cheese Mama!

Getting Bubba's head!

These are the sweetest little faces I've ever seen!

This was one of those beautiful evenings, before it actually started getting HOT!  We took the kids out to play and to the park again.   Andrew has these outdoor toys he loves to play with and these darts that he likes us to throw in the air.  Well, I just had to share this because it was so funny.  I took a turn at throwing the dart in the air and it actually went on the roof and didn't come back down!  Andrew looked dumbstruck!  I told him what happened and that it must be stuck.  He goes, "God dang it!"  (wonder where he's heard that before... Craig??)  Ha!  Then he looked thoughtful and said excitedly, "Maybe SANTA will get it down!"  I laughed so hard.  It was pretty stinkin funny.  Maybe Andrew... if it's still there next Christmas!

I just love the way she looks at him...

Pure sibling love... (let's hope it lasts!)

Kerigan actually went down the slide (I held her!) a few times.  She wasn't thrilled but she didn't hate it, either!

I think this summer she's going to really love coming here.

I just love this.  He's famous for dumping all of his toys on top of her!  Then they just sit and hang out together.

It is really just too cute for words...

Can you see Andrew's masterpiece behind him?  He loves to line his animals up in a circle around the edge of our coffee table.  He was so proud of it!  Then he tells me to leave it there when he goes to bed!  Ha!  So Craig and I try to maneuver around them, it's really fun.  Ha!

She hasn't given up getting into these baskets of books.  I am trying to decide how long I'm going to torture myself rather than just moving them.

This just reminded me too much of another little stinker I once knew...

Seriously?  He did the exact same thing.  And yes, I moved the baskets back then!  Actually, we moved the whole darn coffee table!  It went to the basement for about 4 years!  I was so excited to get it back out when we redid our family room a little bit last spring (before the little miss joined us!)  I just refuse to move it back down again!  Ha!

A little spring cleaning and organizing brought this up from the basement, and Kerigan loves it!

She crawls back and forth and plays with all the little buttons and toys.  She is the perfect age for it!

Couldn't resist this face... and those big blue eyes!

We had some other fun friends come to play over spring break!  This is baby Jack.

Andrew and Lilly have known each other all their lives and now they are a big brother and big sister to these two sweeties!  It is just the best!  Alissa and I are enjoying the clothes swapping!  We've decided to swap other things too, like toys and strollers!  It's worked out really nicely.

Lilly is just one of the sweetest little girls I know.  

Just for fun...a blast from the past of Lilly and Andrew!  So sweet!  We'll have to get a picture of Kerigan kissing Jack like this someday!

Ga Ga and Papa came over to celebrate daddy's birthday a few weeks ago.  Do you love how Kerigan is smushed in the middle?  She was asleep, and Andrew was determined to wake her up!

I always have to share funny stories about my husband, because let's face it... he is stinkin funny.  My mom brought his present wrapped in this Betty Boop sack.  We were all laughing about it (she said it was all she could find at home and she didn't want to go buy one!  Ha!)  I went to take his picture and he made this face.  I told him it was going on the blog, and you can see his expression didn't change so he didn't care!  Ha!

Andrew was star of the week last week at his preschool.  He got to choose a special guest to come and visit his class.  He chose Ga Ga and Kerigan!

He was so excited to have them come and introduce them to his friends.  My mom said it was so much fun.  They all read a book together and she brought them all suckers.  I was so sad I couldn't be there, but I was thrilled my mom was able to go!  It was a special day!

Andrew is such a proud big brother!

But he never wants me to forget when he was a baby too!  (I was getting ready to feed Kerigan one night and he jumped up on the boppy before I could get to her!)  He'll always be my baby!  And I hope he always wants to be!