Easter Part 2

Easter Egg Hunt at Grandma's

On Your mark, get set...

Go!!!

This egg hunt had better organization and a higher egg to child ratio. Thanks to Jared and Marie (and others?) for stuffing and hiding the eggs.

So this is what is suppose to be in an egg!

What?

Is this above or below my knees?
(if you are older than four you can only get eggs above your knees)

Peggy and her mom.
Peggy made sure that the adults were not left out. We all got cups full of the "good" candy. Yum!

Ashton enjoying his spoils.

Lucas has learned to eat his quickly.

After the candy, Ryan and Lucas decided to venture after the dog.

Ashton still enjoying his spoils.

Ryan came back for more "memes" or "cho 'c lit"

Helping unpack after a fun weekend

A toddler post gggg vnn bbgfhghghg

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I guess this is what I get for leaving the window open.

Easter Part 1

Easter
We did Easter baskets at home the week before Easter, mostly for the safety of that little critter in the front of Jesse's basket.

Jesse's basket. That is a Hex crab in the front, they move when you make a loud noise and they also scuttle away from bright lights.

Dad I want to play with that toy!

An attempt at hiding an Easter basket. Plain sight would have worked just as well. He really wanted that Hex bug. In an attempt to distract Ryan I asked him if he liked trains. That is what he is saying "whoo whoo"

Bear and Ryan discover the train. Bear has become Ryan's new best friend. It gets complicated when Bear needs to do everything Ryan can do. Like thread beads onto a pipe cleaner. I only have so many hands.

Playing with his new train

Mom, in case there was any doubt that Ryan doesn't like trains... I think you're safe. Again he is saying "whoo, whoo"

Easter Take 2
Wabash Indiana, Honeywell Center

Making a little paper basket.

I want this sticker here, please.

Ryan decided that he really wanted to see the Easter Bunny. Luckily Aunt Marie and Cousin Ashton had patiently waited in line and we maybe cut to go with them. Thank you to the man behind them :) Ashton is demonstrating the proper attitude one should take toward the Easter Bunny.

Once Ryan got closer he decided that Easter Bunny's are not such a good idea after all. The Easter Bunny settled for a high five.

On to the crazy egg hunt.

Grandpa look, a helicopter!

Dropping Eggs from the helicopter. They said that there were 10,000 eggs between the ground and dropping them. Later they told me there were about 1,800 kids there. Do the math on that one.

Note; we are near the front of the toddler section and Ryan is pretty much the only one under three...A few seconds after this picture was taken all chaos broke loose. Ok not that bad, but Jesse said it looked like a bunch of locust eating across a field. Ryan and I got to the front. I set him down and he managed to get two eggs before the swarms came and took the rest.
As a consolation, a guy with a kid who may have been too old for that section came running up behind me. Then he tried to stop and he slid and became covered in mud. And missed the eggs he was going for. All that for a few plastic eggs and pieces of paper for free goldfish or a small wrapped chocolate. It was a little scary out there, some parents are crazy, me thinks.

Ryan did learn a new word "eeegs" He was perfectly happy picking up discarded halves of Easter Eggs. He would even pick them out of puddles and pour the water out. At this point he didn't know eeegs can have "cho colat" or "treeeets" in them.

The staff did a wonderful job and even offered eggs to kids who didn't find any. They had no idea that so many people would come. Some kids had grocery bags half full of eggs. That is a lot more than the 5-6 eggs per child you should have calculated early. Next year perhaps we will try a smaller egg hunt.

Chocolate, Sugar Fun

Last weekend we decided to visit the South Bend Chocolate Factory and go on their free tour.

If you want some chocolate, you need to wear your hair net.

Waiting in line to receive our free sample. Nearly perfect chocolates are good enough for us!

Here we are.

Yum!

Where did my chocolate go?

Please mom, can I have another chocolate?

A rabbit as big as Ryan.


Ryan decided to brush up on his investment knowledge. It's not really a posed picture. He really wanted to look at it and then started to flip through the pages.

This weekend we went with our housing complex to Sugar Camp Days. It is a celebration of Maple Syrup. What gets better then that? They had cooking demonstrations, juggling, horse drawn wagon rides, baked goodies, maple cotton candy, maple caramel corn, crafts and ice sculptures.

Looking at the horses. The ice sculptures are in the background (not as exciting).

Pancake breakfast with sausages, milk and maple syrup. I was told the maple syrup comes from the park. Ryan liked it so much he tried to drink it out of the little cups it came in. And they had run out of forks so we ate with spoons and knives ;)

Ryan thought this dog was the best part of the whole day.

Making a pioneer button toy. I was impressed with how carefully and meticulously he scribbled on it. Never got any sharpie on his hand.

Mom, does this look good?

Our last stop was to the nature center were we saw some bees.

At this point I should probably have uploaded out ultrasound pictures, but they are all in a long strip on our fridge and I'm lazy. But we're going to shake things up a bit and have a girl. Jesse knew about half way through the ultrasound. I again was a little lost and the technician moved the camera thing around. Ryan just stared past me at the monitor completely mesmerized, not moving or saying a word. Baby looks good and she is spot on growth wise for the number of weeks I am (was).

Update... and a guess

First of all, it is no longer snowing or freeze/thawing. The weather has been warmer like the high thirties :)

Really big icicle outside our building. It kind of blends in with the electrical wire on the side of the building so it isn't as long as it looks, but still really long. They had to come a few times this winter and knock them down.

Why we didn't make it to Ben's endowment. And we were very sad :(

It has stopped snowing and we can see mud and some grass.

Jesse has learned how to engineer giant bugs out of Legos.

The first batch

These ones are big enough to ride

Ryan is looking super handsome in his church clothes. He is loving nursery and barely says good bye before running in. Big change from his first few weeks.

Ryan has a big boy bed. I'm sure you can't see anything in this picture, but he's there I promise. He loves his bed more for playing than for sleeping, but he still sleeps in there alright.

Ryan's post Valentine's Day romantic gesture. I was making the bed and Ryan found one of his old church toys (flowers in a plastic jar from our wedding) and dumped them all over the bed. Cutie isn't he?

Bubbles... Ryan loves bubus and will push the chair into the kitchen anytime you are washing dishes. Or any other time Jesse or I are doing something in the kitchen. Ryan will yell bellper bellper (helper). He will ask for his apron to be put on and he will stir or shake spices, dump measuring cups or push the start button on the bread maker. He's a helper alright :)

Ryan loves stikies (stickers) and will search the desk trying to find a piece of paper to stick them on. Sometimes he settles for his forehead, this happens more than one might think.

Trying to get a picture of him is quite the chore. Usually he wants to see the beebee and will run to the other side of the camera and sit on my lap to see him.

Ryan likes to plug things in; baby monitors, vacuums, fans, power strips, AV cables, Wii nun-chucks, headphones anything. There is one outlet in our house he can get to and luckily it has a light switch attached to it. He will drag the vacuum from the living room into the bedroom just to get to it and plug it in. He likes to plug the nun-chuck into the headphone jack and then pretend to shave his hair. He also likes to open up the Wii controller box, take our the controller and point it at the TV and shake the controller. When Ryan isn't plugging things in, he's climbing, building or playing with something with wheels. He's learning to say prayers and will kneel on the ground and fold his arms for a few seconds before Jesse leaves in the morning.


Good thing Ryan is learning to occupy himself because...

he'll have competition soon. Anyone want to make a gender guess?