You've Been Egged!!!

Yes, we took our children Egging!!!  hehe  Not what you are thinking!  I found this idea on Pinterest and had to do it!  I told my friend Emily about it and finally found a day that worked!  I wanted to get this post done early so you can try it for yourself!  It was sooo fun and the kids LOVED it!!!  Next year will be even better!  So this is what you have to do!

Getting all the eggs filled with treats for our friends!!!

You are supposed to leave a dozen eggs at each house filled with yummy treats!

 All 4 kids loaded and ready to Egg our friends!!!

Working really hard at finding good hiding spots for all the eggs.

When you get to your friends house you need to hide all 12 eggs.  Then you ring the doorbell and run away!  We choose to hide and run out after they started finding he eggs.  The website I got it from hid in their van down the street and never told their friends who did it!  That might be better for older kids!  Our kids just wanted to see their friends and play :)

Peeking out to see how Avery was doing!

Avery with all her eggs!

Jaxon and Austin with all their eggs!  These two were a blast!  Austin ran out of the house and yelled "Look easter eggs!!!"

Jaxon was great at finding eggs and also leaving some for his brother!

I think Austin found one!

Our last stop was Jordann's house!  These two had lots of fun playing together!  So sweet!











I would totally recommend doing this with your kiddos!!!  Ours had a blast!  If you go to this website http://sunscholars.blogspot.com/2011/03/egged-easter-tradition.html  you can find the "You've been egged" sign and a cute poem that explains what you are supposed to do now that you have been egged!  We got the ball rolling in Cedar Falls!  Watch out you might be egged next!!!  Happy Easter!

Ahnie is 11 Months Old!

We are walking!!!

One month and we will have a 1 year old!!!  Better get all my ideas together from pinterest!  I am getting very excited to get all her birthday things ready!!  We are going with the Very Hungary Caterpillar Theme!

This past month was again filled with firsts and very fun!  Ahnie started taking steps at 10 months and 2 days!!!  She would walk just a couple steps if we stood her up in the middle of the floor and held out our arms.  By the end of the month she was walking everywhere first then when she would fall she would just crawl the rest of the way.  She is up to 8-10 steps!!

"All Done"

She is also very animated now!  She thinks everything is funny!!  I just love her belly laugh that AJ can always get out of her.  The other day we were at Target and AJ would grab her hand and shake it and say "Nice to meet you Ahnie" then kiss her hand.  She thought it was sooo funny!  She now will do puppy when you ask and sometimes will make a "mmmm" sound for cow.  She loves to wave Hi and Bye and blow kisses.  She also reaches her arms out if she is walking to you and will reach up for you to pick her up!

We are now up to 3 teeth and the 4th is poking out!  Wow, does she get every symptom in the book when she gets teeth!  She doesn't eat well, gets a diaper rash, won't sleep, is fussy, drools and even a runny nose.  It is a very big ordeal when we have a new tooth coming in!  And we still have a long way to go since we only have 3 teeth...

The last first is not a fun one but she got the stomach flu for the first time.  She came down with it right before I was going to head home from visiting my parents during spring break while Brett was in California.  So we decided to stay another night and it was the best decision I could have made!  I was very thankful for my parents during that time (and always).

Pushing her new stroller!!

This past month Ahnie has been able to play outside a lot and I can say we have a few pairs of pants that are her outside pants!  With her mainly crawling she ruins pants so quickly now while we are outside!  I am so ready for her to walk!!  She loves being outside and on the move!

She really likes filling things up and dumping them out right now!  I got out our Sunshine Market from DT the other day and she loves the little shopping cart that comes with it and all the pieces!  She also loves walking with her new walker I got for her!  It is a baby stroller and she even finds her babies to put in the seat!  So sweet!



Our baby girl is really starting to grow into a little girl.  She is so fun and makes us laugh so much each day!  We could not imagine life without her in our family!  I love thinking back to 1 year ago while I was very pregnant and wondering what life would be like with 2 kids!  It is wonderful and I wouldn't change anything!  Except to slow down time :)

Caught Red Handed

I asked Ayden to watch his sister when I went down to do a load of laundry I came up to find Ayden playing on our Kindle Fire (the one thing that is off limits to him if we are not helping him).  I love that Ahnie is trying to give him the case...like here if your going to use it you better put it in the case!  

I am sure these two will get in lots more trouble together as the years go on :)

Hawkeye Sign

Today we were going to Walmart and the light was yellow.  AJ said "Mom, look at the Hawkeye sign"...I asked where and by that point it was a Tiger (red) sign.  Then I realized he was talking about the stop light.  We still see colors in terms of sports but if you make him say the color we finally know the right color for red, green, blue, and yellow.  So we talked about what each color means when mommy is driving so he was telling me what to do ex: "Its packers, go, go, go!"  "Tiger sign Mommy stop!"  While we were on our way I hear "Oh no Mom!  That was Tiger!  You didn't stop" and when I looked back at him his hand was on his forehead. I was probably the 3rd car back when it changed so I was pretty confident that I didn't run a red light but it was pretty funny how concerned he was!

No, No Ahnie

I think we have our work cut out for us with our precious little girl!  She is starting to swat at us and it hurts!  So I will tell her to be gentle then she smiles, giggles and does it again!  So I take her hand and say NO at her with out smiling (which can be very hard) and she giggles even more!  I remember when Ayden was at this stage he would get very sad if we said No to him like that!  Not sure what this means but she is so cute when she does it I can't help to laugh sometimes!