Happy Easter (4 years and 2.5 years)

Our daycare has developed a PTO again.  I think it's a great way to be involved in the school.  I feel it's important for me to be involved. I like getting to know more of the teachers and planning fun activities for the kids.  We organized a school dance.  It was supposed to be for Valentine's Day but the day it was scheduled it was a snow day so it was rescheduled for the end of March.

Brian took pictures at the dance for all the families.  Pictures are very important to us.  Brian does a really great job taking pictures.  Austin likes to be like his daddy and he had "his" camera around his neck and helped take pictures too.  It's an older camera Brian doesn't use anymore, but it still is a $500 DSLR camera so Austin looks quite legit holding it.  He understands he needs to be careful with it and always wear the strap.  The kids had fun dancing around.  When it was over, Austin said he wanted to do it again.  That makes it all worth it!

Our city did not have a community Easter egg hunt this year.  However Kaitlyn's family did and invited us over.  Austin and Sydney loved collecting the eggs.  At first, Sydney did not know what to do.  Then she got the hang of it loved it.  Austin collected the most but we evened it out in the end.

An outlet mall had an Easter egg hunt.  Kids went into stores and collected eggs.  They had fun doing that.  They would run to the store.  They also had an Easter bunny outside for pictures. We stood in line for the Easter bunny.  Kids in front of us were scared of him but Austin and Sydney ran up to him and got their picture with him.  It's great that are not scared of him.  It was cold that day but everyone still had fun!

On Easter morning the kids woke up and went to find their Easter baskets.  Austin found his basket first under the slide.  Then Austin helped Sydney find her basket on the coat rack.  Then after it warmed up a little bit they went outside and found eggs and some outside toys of Pogo stick, chalk, and a T-ball set.  After dinner, we went down to my parents for dinner.  They got Easter baskets there too.  The kids had a great Easter.

Lake Farm Park has a spring program for little kids.  I took them for a half day program with my local mommy group.  The kids could have milked a cow but they were too scared.  They learned about spring and planted a plant.  They saw baby animals.  We had a packed lunch there too.  After it was over they played in the inside playground.  It was a neat educational program.

We had some opportunities to go to Sky Zone too.  I took them one day for an hour and Brian took them there too for an hour another day.  Austin liked playing basketball.  Sydney enjoyed jumping on the trampolines.  They burned a lot of energy and were tired afterwards.

We also took the kids to the IX Center indoor amusement park.  It was really good for them.  They had several rides they could both ride.  It's interesting because there is only a certain window they both can ride the rides before they are too big.  Austin and Sydney had a great time there.  I am so happy we took them.