One more month…

31 more days and my little boy will be two years old.   I love every minute with him and cherish every hug and kiss.  This month he has grown by leaps and bounds.  He is talking more and more.  He has started to tell me, “I love you!”  (Melt my heart.)  The other night, Christian came down with a fever.  I held him and patted his pack.  Later that night, he rolled over and started patting my chest and hugged me.  (Melt my heart.)  Even though he is very loving, Christian is still ALL boy.  Christian loves to play ball, loves to hit, loves to tackle, loves to eat.

Easter Day 2010

Have you ever wondered why we celebrate Easter with eggs.  Well, the other day I came across a little girls explanation as to why…”it must be because eggs are a symbol for life. We hide the eggs like Jesus was hidden from us in the tomb by death. When we find him, we receive a wonderful gift of grace when we find the egg (life) we get a present. It's supposes to help the kids understand.”  I hope that one day my kids are explaining this wonderful explanation to their kids.

Easter Day 2010 at the Schneider home was a wonderful day.  The kids and I woke up, got dressed and headed to church.  Kayla sat with me in “big” church since all Sunday school classes were canceled.  I loved having her there with me.  It reminded me of my childhood.  Sitting there next to my Memaw, drawing on offering envelops and trying to sing the songs with the choir.

After church, we headed home to see if the Easter bunny had arrived.  WOW! 50+ eggs were in are front yard and two large baskets were waiting for the kids.  You should have seen Christian and Kayla’s faces.  They could not get out of the car fast enough.  Jon and the kids ran around searching for the eggs.  Kayla picked up as many eggs as she could and waited to open them until she got inside.  Christian did not care about waiting.  I think he finally made it inside with a little less then half the chocolate that he found.  Thank goodness  the Easter Bunny hid money in half the eggs and candy in the rest.  Otherwise, Christian would have had a chocolate overload.  Kayla on the other hand got so excited at how much money she got and could care less about the candy. 

After counting the money and putting it in the piggy banks, Jon made us  lunch and then it was nap time.  After naps, I decided to take the little ones to San Gabriel Creative Playscape.  They had a blast.  We played hide-n-seek and ran around until we were ALL exhausted.

Overall, we had a great Easter Day.  I hope everyone had a blessed Easter Day.

      

Up to My Neck in Easter Eggs

I think five Easter Egg Hunts in a 4 day span is way to many (and that is NOT counting Easter day hunt).  What am I going to do with 100 plastic Easter eggs?  I hate throwing them all away.  I always keep them and tell myself…next year I am going to use these rather then buying new ones.  However, it never fails, I go out and buy a couple dozen more eggs.  I guess in a couple of years, I can host my own community Easter Egg Hunt.

This years, hunts started out like the previous years.  Kayla only wanted to pick up the PINK ones and Christian did not care about finding the eggs as much as opening them up and seeing what was inside (and then proceeded to eat it).  Kayla soon realized that if she just picked up all the ones that she could, she would fill her basket and have more treats.  So, by the end of the Easter fun, I was thankfully not stuck with ALL pink eggs (only 2/3 were pink).

Enjoy the pictures from three of the five hunts…

Easter Egg Hunt #1

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Easter Egg Hunt #2

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Easter Egg Hunt #3..Christian would not get near the Easter Bunny.  He just stared at him (which I really don’t blame him, he kind of scared me).

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