Preparing For Easter

Yesterday was packed full of Easter festivities with Grandma and Grandpa Zink. I had to work so I missed out on most of them. The day began with a trip to McDonald's to see the Easter Bunny, then it was on to Tim Horton's for a rained out Easter Egg Hunt (but Will got two bags of candy), and then a trip to the fish hatchery.

Will And Easter Bunny At McDonald's

Grandma and Grandpa Zink With Will At Fish Hatchery

Will And Grandpa Zink

In the early afternoon Bill and Will took a walk to a nearby school for the volunteer fire department egg hunt. Before the hunt began it was very chaotic with kids running all over the place. One of the fireman got out a megaphone to go over the rules. Will listened very well to the rules and then repeated all the rules to his Darth Vader container. Once he got all his candy he ran back to Bill to find out if any of the candy he got had Prize written on it. Sure enough, he won one of the prizes for his age group. He was so happy!

Awaiting Easter Bunny

Easter Bunny Arrives In Style

Eagerly Waiting For The Hunt To Begin

Ready, Set, Go

Will Thrilled About The Prize He Won

After the school egg hunt everyone waited for me to get home from work and then we headed over to Great- Aunt Donna's and Great- Uncle Bruce's for another egg hunt.

Grandma Zink And Witney

Witney With Her First Easter Egg

Friday we got the kids dressed up for a trip to go and get their pictures taken with the Easter Bunny. We were not sure what Witney would think of the Easter Bunny. She was not phased by him at all and was her normal smiley self. Will on the other hand was a little more hesitant. He had no problem running up and saying hi and giving him a high five. But when we told him he had to sit on his lap for a picture, he got a little nervous. But we were able to get an adorable picture of them with the Easter Bunny and they each got a small stuffed bunny.

Holding Hands

Coloring Easter Eggs

Today we decided to color Easter Eggs. Will was really excited to have daddy design a lot of them with crayon before we dyed them. Then all he wanted to do was eat the eggs. I kept telling him that we had to save them so the Easter Bunny could hide them. We did let him eat a few of them, but he would only eat the white part. I got stuck eating all the hard boiled yolks.

Last Saturday it was a gorgeous day. Once I got home from work we decided to take a walk to Martin Rd Park.

Trying Out My Big Girl Seat

On Friday April 8 we went to Will's 3 year old zoo class. Today was Counting With Animals. It is the last class that we can attend until next fall.

Yankee and Doodle, Sun Conures

Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches

Witney Getting Sleepy

Approves Of The Big Girl Seat

6 Months Old And Waterbabies

It is so hard to believe that 6 Months ago yesterday Witney was born. It seems like it was last week; where has the time gone? She continues to bring so much joy to our lives as she is the happiest baby. Will was a happy baby too but I feel like Witney is smiling 95% of the time. She has also started to make this pouty face where she sticks out her lower lip. It is adorable.

I Am 6 Months Old

Such A Big Girl

Yesterday was also Witney's 2nd day of Waterbabies. We are hoping she will follow in Will's footsteps and be a fish in the water. So far she seems to really enjoy it. Now that Grandma Wallace is retired she is able to come with us to swimming.

Our Bathing Beauty

Grandma Wallace And Witney

On Sunday April 3 we decided it was time to get in the Easter Spirit. We took the kids to the School of The Arts Easter Extravaganza. It was very cute and Will got to participate in his first Easter Egg Hunt of the season!

Getting His Face Painted

Easter Egg Race

Easter Bunny Dance

Witney Sleeping Through Most of the Event

We have really been struggling with bedtime with Will since about 2 weeks before Witney was born. It has developed into me having to sit in his room until he falls asleep, which can be anywhere from 15 minutes to almost 2 hours. Needless to say it has gotten old. A few weeks ago I came up with an idea of making a Big Boy Chart, and for each night that Will allows me or Bill to leave the room while he is still awake, he gets a letter the next morning. And once he spells his name we get to do something fun.

Will's Completed Big Boy Chart

He completed the chart the weekend of the Easter Extravaganza, so we used that as our fun event. We offered to take the letters off and start over so that we could do another fun event, but Will said he wanted to just keep the letters on his chart.