Our next door neighbors had a driveway put in last week.  When we came home from dropping Poppy off at school, Sam and I pulled up a few chairs and we had a front row seat to the most exciting show Sam has ever seen.  This kid lives for all things trucks.  He still doesn't say mama, but he can definitely say "TRUCK!!!" (even though it sounds more like "uck").  

He seriously sat there for almost 3 hours.  He stared at the trucks.  He talked to the trucks.  He drooled over the trucks.  

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Nature walk with Grandma this morning...

We checked out a few non-fiction books about birds from the library last week and Poppy is suddenly super into nature and animals.  She asked Marc if he could take her to the forest this morning so she could look for more birds.  They had a great time...

Finally getting around to posting some pictures from Easter...

At the easter egg hunt at Aunt Jeanna's...

  Poppy was so excited that she found the "golden egg"...

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Easter egg hunt with the cousins at Uma & Upa's house...

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Have I ever mentioned how much Sammy loves his dessert?  Cupcake face...

Or have I ever mentioned how much he loves his blankie?  This is a common scene around here...

 It's a Sammy-monster!

And these two are peas in a pod.  Inseperable...

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A quick game of soccer with Ty...

 Until Sam took a little break to look for airplanes...

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Dumpling day!  Getting ready for someone's 5th birthday...

We've been kinda busy around here lately.  And really tired.  Sam had a hard time adjusting back to sleeping by himself in his room once we came home from vacation and he has been keeping me up all night and getting up toooo early in the morning.  And if he hasn't been waking me up, Poppy and Marc are waking me up with their coughs.  Every night for over a week.  But as of yesterday, Sam finally seems to be back on track, and hopefully Marc and Poppy are getting over their coughs, so this mama should be coming back to life soon...

Here's what we have been up to...

We did a fun craft to decorate paper easter eggs.  First, you cut out large easter egg shapes out of thick paper.  Then fill a tray with shaving cream... 

smooth it out a little bit...

dribble a few lines of different colors of paint and then gently run a chopstick to marble it...

smoosh the paper easter eggs into the shaving cream/paint mixture...

when you pull it out, you'll have peaks of shaving cream and paint...

and then you take a squeegee and gently scrape the shaving cream off...

and you are left with this cool marbled easter egg!

we have these beauties hanging all over our house now...

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we re-organized kitchen cupboards (which is always so much more fun with my two little helpers)...

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Sam and I made these cupcakes while Poppy was at school yesterday and then when she got home, Poppy decorated them...

didn't they turn out cute?!...

we brought out easter cupcakes over to Poppy's cousin's house for an easter egg dyeing party...

and an easter egg hunt!  At first, Sammy wasn't sure what this was all about...

but once he caught onto the fact that there were treats inside of the eggs, he took off running...

Lots more easter egg hunts and family parties to come this weekend...