Daddy's Birthday!

It was such a beautiful day last Saturday. A perfect day for the zoo. Dan and I had hoped to go to dinner and a movie, just the two of us, but when our babysitters were all gone on spring break, we decided to do a family thing...and what a great idea for a great day. We spent the morning having a great breakfast and making cupcakes. We went outside for a bit before naptime just so we could make the most out of the awsome weather. I had cabin fever bad and was so excited to get outside to play.

At lunchtime, we frosted some cupcakes and brought the candles out. I was absolutely floored when Josiah started to sing the "Happy Birthday Song". He sang "birthday, to you, birthday to you". Practically melted our hearts. I think that was the best gift Dan could have gotten from Josiah.

And then we were off to the Zoo!!!

Whoever put the playground right outside the zoo where the kids could see it, was crazy! For one: kids are tired when the are done walking the zoo and seeing all there is to see. Second: They cannot resist the playground and have a fit so that they can go play on it. Third: the kids are now even more tired and they refuse to leave the playground. Josiah had the biggest tantrum I have ever seen out of him. He had only taken a short nap and then was super tired!! Not a great combo. But we still had a great time!

After the playground and the zoo we were off to dinner at a Japanese restaraunt. Josiah actually ate the food we put in front of him, none of which he had seen before. I was very proud of him. On the other hand, I will not take him to an expensive restaraunt for quite some time, his food added quite a bit to the bill. Such is life and I know that beofre I know it, we will just have to deal with the fact that we can't bring a tub of dinner everywhere we go :)

Who's leading who?

Easter Part 1: The outside Easter Egg hunt on Sat.

Since the weather forecast for Sunday was not very good and Saturday was really nice with the sun shining and all, that we decided to hide the plastic eggs during Josiah's nap for him to find when he woke up.

Dan and Josiah killin time waiting for Cousin Jack to come over for the Egg hunt.

Getting ready to go outside for the hunt!

Mama and Daddy hiding Easter eggs in the snow for the first time. (yes these pictures are posed and Dan really didn't want me to take it, but I made him ;)

I think they had fun finding the Easter Eggs. Josiah did much better than I thought. He kept losing his eggs out of his basket and I would grab them and rehide them (in an attempt to kill time waiting for Jack and to make it last longer). But he got mad and yelled at me "No, No, Mama" So I stopped doing it :) They had fun though!

Cousin Jack and Aunt Cindy (sorry this picture is so dark, I couldn't lighten it up much more without distorting the picture.)

Grandma helping Josiah open the eggs.

Josiah discovering that there was chocolate in the eggs. I think he would have eaten it all or at least every other one, if we hadn't put it in a baggy:)

A snow ball fight ensued after the hunt was done and after the candy had been tapped into. Papa started it and we eventually all joined in. That was fun!

After we had all recovered from the Easter Egg hunt, we all headed to the Community Center to go swimming. What a great day!!!!

Easter Part 2: Easter Morning

He had done such a good job looking for his Easter basket the day before that I thought he would get right to it on Easter morning. But no such luck. he was doing everything but looking. So took a picture of a couple of the distractions.

We finally set the Easter Basket up on the chair and he kept running past it...I think being silly at this point. But he was super wound up and having fun.

Bubbles, trains and balls...what more could a kid ask for in an Easter Basket (besides candy of course :)

After Church family pictures. Unfortunately, our camera is on its way out and has been taking some really poor pictures lately. So most of these pictures are not very good and I didn't have time to doctor them any. But they are good enough for my blog :)

Trying to get a picture of Josiah all by himself on the couch was near to impossible, so we just started snapping pictures of him doing his thing.

Easter Part 3: Dying Eggs

Not sure I would do this again with a 2 year old in a place not my own. I was so worried that he was going to stain things that I had a hard time helping him to enjoy the fun of it. But it was still fun. Next year will be much, much easier and better (I think ;)

Easter Part 4: Searching for Dyed Eggs at Home

We ran out of time at Grandma and Grandpa's to actually hide and find the eggs that we dyed. So I brought them home and we looked for them on Monday morning. He didn't know any different. But he was so tired from the weekend, that we finally woke him up (mostly by accident) at 9:00 am and I don't think he fully woke up until 10:00am. He did search and find most of hte eggs by himself (with a little bit of prodding in the right direction of course ;)

March 17th

Josiah's shirt says "Kiss me, I'm Irish" which he is (1/32nd), so I figured it would be ok to put him in it. I got myself a new t-shirt and combined they cost me under $5. Not bad for 2 new t-shirts. :)