Late Easter

Easter morning this year was really fun, but we had a mini photo crisis, which is why it has taken me so long to post pictures. The girls volunteered at the city Easter egg hunt this year, so the kids woke up at 6am to see their Easter baskets. Since it was early, we didn't really worry much about taking pictures, and planned on taking more pictures at the egg hunt. When we arrived, we realized we forgot our camera! Ben and Nate drove home to get it, but by the time he returned (only 5 minutes after the hunt started) all of the kids had picked up the eggs! Eva was pretty tired at this point from waking up early, and wasn't really interested anymore. I still planned to take pictures of Eva and Nathan in their cute Easter outfits, but then they were both sick on Easter Sunday! So, next year I will do a better job, but for now here are a few pictures.
When Nate and Eva discovered candy inside the plastic eggs, they reacted differently. Nathan carefully tried to open each egg, while Eva gathered as many as her arms could hold and ran to her dad to open them for her!

Eva liked Nate's Easter basket better than her own, which was interesting since she picked almost everything in her basket out herself the week before Easter!

Eva's Mess #3

Of course there have been many messes since our last messy post, but this one was pretty good. Today while I was in the shower, I knew something was going on because Eva wasn't bringing me toys and lotion from under the bathroom sink every five seconds. I checked on the kids to discover that Nathan (being a helpful brother) figured out the child lock on my desk drawer and Eva found a marker - a sharpie, to be exact. After I took it away and Eva threw a fit, I told her we were going to have to wash her off, so she climbed into the bathtub with all of her clothes on!

I love taking the kids outside to play! Until this year Nathan didn't like to play outside, but now that he is more steady on his feet, he is all over the place using his walker or walking toys for support. Eva loves to run around and sing, make faces, and jabber and then stop to make sure I am watching. I think I will take way too many pictures of them outside this year . . .

Eva likes to play Peek-A-Boo behind our fence. It was just too hard to get good pictures because she moves so fast, and as soon as I get into place to shoot she sees that I have "found" her and moves to the other side of the fence!

If we are outside and Nate sees a puddle, he will use his fastest walker-walk to get to it and then he will stomp and crawl around in it.

Sneaky Nathan

Nathan, has been watching the secret agent episodes of Backyardigans, and now uses his finger to tell us to be quiet. He also uses it to make sure that nobody talks during moment of silence (at meals we call the blessing moment of silence for "political correctness" in the group home).

Cute Videos of the Kids-

Eva is such a little girl, and has started to accessorize by stealing Mom's clothes, makeup, brushes, and hairbands. The funny part is, when you buy Eva her own stuff, it's just not nearly as interesting. As you can see, she sometimes doesn't get the difference between putting something on her head, and wearing it.

We've tried to get Nathan on video, and sadly this is best of 6 takes, he was just too excited to see himself on the computer, and he likes watching us make the signs more than doing them himself. You can tell Nathan is distracted, because he was late on the sign to say "It wasn't really so," Normally he loves wagging his finger at us, even doing it the line before, but that time he was a line late!

Eva is such a ham, she lives with too many girls that hang on her every antic, and it shows in this video. She sings, nods, claps, plays peekaboo, and makes sure that we are watching the Eva show.

New Pictures

Last week we had a couple of days where it was 60 degrees (right before it snowed on Saturday) and we took Nathan and Eva outside to play. Eva loved it! Nate gave us mixed reviews. At first he enjoyed walking around, but he can crawl faster than he can walk, so after a few minutes of crawling around in the driveway he decided he didn't like it so much because his hands were all full of tiny rocks. Eva wanted to stay outside and kept running away when I started to get cold and was ready to go inside!