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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A weekend of fun!

The past weekend was filled with tons of actions.  The cousins came down for a visit.  Not if that was enough, Kayla also had her last soccer game and soccer party.  The kids had a blast.  I love watching Jonah and Kayla interact.  The two have so much fun together.  Christian and Meredith are starting to bond (and it is adorable).  The weekend started out with some fun in the jeep. Poor Monda…the kids decided to try and run her down.  I think she finally had to hide between the cars to get away.  They had a blast!

 

      

Next, was the soccer game and end of the season party.  I think my kids won the award for the messiest cupcake eaters.  Go Christian and Kayla! I think it took several days for the green to finally come off her hands.

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After the soccer game, Monda and I took the kids to Jump n’ Climb. They all had a blast. Actually, we all had a really good time.  The kids talked Monda into climbing up one of the play areas and going down the slide.  Yah! All I have to say is after I heard her scream while coming down, I decided it was in my best interest to stay in the ball pit with Meredith.  This slide was no normal slide.  Two stories tall (maybe even taller) and straight down.  Christian, Kayla and Jonah LOVED it!  I think they went down the thing at least 100 times.

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Overall, it was a great weekend.  Kayla and Christian were TOTALLY exhausted the next week.  I think it took them several days to catch up on the much needed rest and relaxation.

Texas Weather…

Sunday February 21st, it was beautiful.  High 78 degrees.  So, how does it snow ALL day two days later.  Crazy weather.  Well, the kids sure enjoyed it.  I had to wake Kayla up Tuesday morning for school.  Normally, she lays there complaining that she is still tired.  Not, this morning.  Instead, I asked her to look out the window.  She gazed out the window, rubbed her eyes, looked out the window again, and then jumped out of bed doing a crazy snow dance.  “Lets go Mommy! lets go play in the snow!”  I could not get her dressed fast enough. She had a great time playing in the snow before school. After school, she played in it more.  Attacking me with snowballs.  I tried to get her to make a snowman.  However, she just wanted to run around and throw snowballs.  Christian was not sure about the snow at first.  He wanted to stay in side were it was warm.  However, after watching Kayla for a few minutes, he started running around trying to pick up snowballs and throw them at me.  His snowballs consisted of getting snow on his hands and rubbing it off on my legs. 

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21 months old..

Wow, my little guy! He is growing up so fast. The past couple of months have been amazing.  My little boy is no longer a baby, but he melts my heart everyday just like the first day that I met him.

Christian loves to dance and sing. 

He loves to torment his sister (great!).  Just tonight, Kayla told him to throw the ball to her.  He pointed in another direction and said, “There.”  “No, over here!” says Kayla.  Christian looks at her, smiles real big and points behind him and says “There!”  Needless to say Kayla got very frustrated and Christian just grinned real big.  Great!

We believe, Christian will be left handed.  He draws left handed, kicks a ball with his left foot, uses his fork with his left hand.

Christian loves to read books and points out EVERYTHING in the pictures.  I mean everything…from the grass to the clouds, from the stars to the sun, from the pages numbers to the letters.  We cant miss a thing.

Christian eats NON STOP.  Today he had five mini pancakes, a banana, two (yes two) P&J sandwiches, Doritos, grapes, 3/4 of  a New York strip, carrots and chocolate flavored fish.

Christian loves to pretend that he is a monster and tackle you (if he keeps eating like he did today, I am if he tries to tackle me). 

My favorite…Christian still loves to cuddle and give kisses.   From day one, he loved to be held.  Even today, he wants Mommy to hold and cuddle him.  Every night, we read and rock.  One of my favorite evening rituals.

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My little mermaid…

During the first part of January, Kayla had her first official swim lesson.  After listening to her say over and over that she wants her hair to be long (like a mermaid) and watching her hold her breath and try to swim in the bath tub, I felt it was time to let her enjoy being in the water and learn how to swim.  I signed her up for group swim lessons at the YMCA.  I may have created a monster…everyday she ask to go swimming.  Tonight Jon asked Kayla what she wanted to be when she gets older.  Her response, a princes (shocking) and a professional swimmer (what? where did that come from).  We are know on our second round of swim lessons.  Her goal, as she tells me after each swim lesson, is to swim like them (the high school swim team that practices in the big pool).