Easter and Spring

***Disclaimer...this was written in April and posted in May.***

We had a wonderful Easter with our family over for brunch in the morning.  The kids spent the night at Grandma and Grandpa's house the night before so Chris and I had a relaxing morning getting everything ready for the meal and it allowed the Easter Bunny LOTS of time to hide baskets and eggs!

The kids had a GREAT time searching for eggs outside and I think I can speak for everyone when I say it was really fun to watch them run around.  The Easter Bunny hid about 75 eggs, so they were everywhere.

We've been getting outside as much as possible even during our super, record setting, rainy spring.  The rain doesn't stop us!  It's included searching for painted rocks as that's the newest fad in Tacoma.  We've painted a few, also, but haven't hid them yet.  We've gone to the zoo nearly every week since we got our membership at the beginning of the month.  It's definitely a fun and easy outing.  I'm so proud that both kids can walk for such long distances and I don't have to rely on the stroller anymore. 

Chris and I have been working on building a new bed for ourselves, KING SIZED!!!  It's almost done and then next week we'll have a couple of days to paint Miss Zoë and Mr. Oliver's rooms so we can move our queen sized bed into her room (lucky girl).

Chris took Oliver to his 2 year wellness check and he weighed 31 pounds (75th percentile) and was 35 inches tall (80th Percentile) and right on track for everything.  What a healthy boy!  And, in Zoë's health news...I took a shower at the beginning of naptime last week and as I got out Zoë came in and said "Mama, I need your help.  There are beads stuck in my nose."  I laughed so hard.  I would have NEVER thought SHE would have shoved anything up her nose and was immediately reminded of when my sister shoved an earring back up her nose when she was of a similar age.  I had an appointment made with her pediatrician to go have them taken out (because I didn't want to shove pony beads up even further into her nasal cavity) when a friend sent me a suggestion she found online.  I put my mouth over hers, closed one nostril as best I could, and blew a sharp puff of air into her mouth and the bead popped right out!  So.  File that away for later.  What a nut.

That's all for now!  The weather is getting nicer (we had our first impromptu BBQ last night with Bailey's family and the pool will open at the beginning of June and then we'll be ready for a summer of fun!).