Happy Easter Weekend!

Easter weekend this year fell on the same weekend as General Conference.  Megan and her roommate Janae came down to visit. It's always fun to see them :) 

We decided to do Easter baskets on Saturday instead the actual day because as Jim is keeping his work schedule by sleeping during the day, we didn't want to have to rush everything into one quick morning. The kids are young enough that they won't even know the difference. 

(Jim's basket isn't here because his was hidden. I made a scavenger hunt with clues and jelly beans in plastic eggs around the house.)

Jimmie checking out his basket. He got a bunch of fun things that I've been collecting for Easter over quite some period of time. He got a jacket, a water bottle, chocolate bunny, goldfish carrot, chocolate egfs and a Daniel Tiger book called "Big Brother Daniel" that talks about adjusting to having a little sister. 

But of course, his favorite thing was the little chocolate eggs. How exciting! Haha. 

Reading on his car

Enjoying his new water bottle so that he doesn't have to steal mommy's all of the time :)

Lorelei was pretty pleased with her basket items too :) 

We also decorated and colored eggs Saturday morning. This was the first time that Jimmie could really participate. It was funny because he normally helps make scrambled eggs. So naturally he took the eggs and would not only try and bang them on the table but proceed to try and crack it open with his thumbs in typical egg cracking fashion. It was pretty entertaining. He colored on the eggs for a few minutes but once he figured out that the cups changed the colors of the eggs, he wanted to throw them all in at once. And yes. I do mean throw.  They didn't all fit in the cups but that's okay.  We now have several plain colored eggs.  

Here are some that actually got decorated.  I did a Daniel tiger one for Jimmie. 

Checking out all of the eggs. 

Snacking on some Peeps

Jimmie has loved this little bunny today. I took it out from his pile of stuffed animals and explained the Easter bunny to him. Since then he has been cuddling with it and treating it like his baby. He will carry the bunny upright against his shoulder and pat the bunny on the back like he's trying to burp a baby. Hahah wonder where he learned that...

He sure loves to love his little sister. His new favorite things are trying to pick her up, tickling her feet, and holding her. He's gotten a lot better with not hitting her. It still happens but for the most part, it's getting fewer and fewer. 

"I'll pick her up, Mommy"

"Okay she's too heavy. I'll just tickle her and talk to her."

"Thanks for helping me hold her, Mom!"

Lorelei is making the "I'm not sure about this" face because sometimes Jimmie gets a little excited and too rough with her.  Sometimes he bites her nose too...

But generally she's pretty happy about hanging with her brother :)

Megan and Janae came over after the first session of conference. We made some spring & Easter sugar cookies together with Jimmie in between sessions. 

They were delicious! And it didn't seem to matter where we put them…Jimmie always found them and would start eating them.

She was a great help with Jimmie during the second session in helping to keep him entertained :) the big coloring book was a giant hit. 

Jimmie enjoyed playing with the girls outside for a bit

Megan captured this moment…This is how Jimmie asks to hold Lorelei.  It'll happen at least 5 or 6 times a day :)

Sunday morning we decided to make some Easter Bunny pancakes for the first time.  They were pretty fun :)

Jimmie has been getting up super early recently (like 5:30-6:15). Jim's still up from his night shift schedule at that point so I can sleep. 

So, we opted to do the egg hunt after he woke up from his nap.

I think Jimmie quite enjoyed finding all of the eggs we'd decorated the day before.

He was really good at it! 

Though, he did need some help and direction sometimes.

Looks like Lorelei really enjoyed the egg hunt, too ;)