Sunday, March 31, 2013

Hoppy Easter

We started our rainy Easter morning with an indoor egg hunt:

 
The boys were excited to show off their loot:
 
 
And the Easter bunny dropped off some baskets:
 
 
 
Then we went to church and brunch with friends, then we met up with some buddies for the Museum of Life + Science's Dinosaur Egg Hunt:

 
Digging for dino eggs:
 
Dino egg decorating:
 
And a little bit of museum fun:
 
 
We wrapped with an Easter dinner where we confirmed that Hayes, like his big brother, loves eating corn on the cob:
 
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Saturday, March 30, 2013

Grant's Birthday Rundown

Happy Four(!!) Years to Grant!  Somehow it's been four years since our first little man joined the family.  We started the day off with a family breakfast at Grant's favorite restaurant (and we have no idea why), a local diner called Rick's.  We celebrated the day with lots of present opening like this cute shirt from Ceci and BobBob
 
 
We decided to let the professionals have a go at cutting the boys' hair:
 
 
We had a fun facetime call with Ceci and BobBob so they could watch Grant (with a bit of help from his bro) open the rest of his presents from them:
 
With Grant's birthday so close to Easter this year, we did an egg hunt for one of his little Lego sets while Hayes napped.
 
After we caught Grant trying to pocket some magnetic tiles like the ones below at a friend's house, we decided if he thought it was such an amazing toy that he wanted to steal it, then it'd probably be a good thing for his wish list.
 
Last week, Grant declared he wanted to be Spiderman on his birthday (after we wouldn't let him dress up as Spiderman for a rock star party), so when the Saturday weather turned out to be amazingly nice, we invited some neighbors over for a cookout and told them costumes were welcome.  Another one of Grant's requests was to eat picnic-style.  This is the scene we found after Grant told our neighbor Ema, "I'll show you the moon."  (It may not be totally clear in this picture, but he brought out his glowing moon and its remote control for her.  Apparently four year old Grant has some moves.)
 
Thankfully, the neighbors helped us eat this (Grant's choices:) chocolate cake with chocolate/Oreo ice cream and crumbled Oreo topping, or I'd be joining a gym right now...
 
 
Our little princesses, super heroes, and pirate...
 
Inspired by our egg hunt at the library, we did our own little Cascaron hunt (fortunately, Walmart sells them already made, so all we had to do was hide them)

...and Grant was one very happy four year old!
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Friday, March 29, 2013

Playtime

Can you tell the boys were just a tad bit excited to open their Easter package from Migi?
 
She added a couple of villains to their lineup, so they immediately set up for a Good Guys versus Bad Guys battle:
 
Somehow, when the battle was over, both of my boys ended up in jail:
 
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

School Birthday

Hayes and I went to "Block Party" at Grant's school because they were celebrating the March birthdays, so this was Grant's 'birthday party' at school.  While waiting for the festivities to start, Hayes asked to have his picture taken.  He's been requesting "spiky hair" ever since we spiked his hair for a rock star birthday party.
 
 
 
After school, one of Grant's classmates joined us for making Easter "volcano eggs:"
 
 
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Cascaron Hunt

The boys had a great time at our library's annual Cascaron Hunt.  Cascarons are eggs filled with confetti that you smash onto the heads of friends (or whoever happens to be nearby)...not a stretch to see why these boys enjoyed it, is it?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Saturday, March 23, 2013

CPK EB

Our California Pizza Kitchen had a Habitat for Humanity fundraiser called Breakfast with the Easter Bunny, so we signed up to check it out.  The boys are still mascot-wary, so they never got too close to the bunny, but we still had a great time and enjoyed some delicious breakfast pizza:
 
 
Daddy had to be a buffer:
 
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Thursday, March 21, 2013

Hot Dogs

When I heard the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile was in town, I marked my calendar and made sure we didn't miss it.  We'd hardly left the house all week, thanks to Hayes' Mega Cold, but I just had to show the boys the magic of the hot dog on wheels, so we bundled up and ventured out long enough to get Oscar Mayer Weinermobile whistles and walk around it a few times while I attempted to get pictures.

 


Whistling with the Weinermobile in the background.  At least they couldn't run away while I was taking these: