Making cookies

This is how Ella felt about baking cookies, she had a bit of a hard time taking turns with her friend Turner. She is used to taking turns with her sissy, but when it came to sharing once again, she was not down with it. Ella is so flexible and adjusts so easily to new situations that this was a surprise for her feathers to be so disrupted, but she did spend a great deal of time in timeout this particular day and wouldn't calm down until we hugged her and told her it was okay. Such a silly girl!
Here Ella is stirring the batter
Ava's turn
here are the Strawberry Milk Chipsters we made, we got the recipe from Picky Palate food blog and thought it would be a fun kid recipe, so alas I made them and the recipe is on my blog: http://www.mmhotrecipes.blogspot.com

Ava dumping ingredients in
Ella taking a turn (notice the tear dripping down her face)

Ava was great at taking turns
Finally the cookies were made and we all had a great time making them!

water colors

Ava likes to carry around 2 sippy cups... EVERYWHERE... she's a mess!
Ava and Ella painting with their water colors!
ella painting
Ava painting Daddy a picture.

Walk... walk and walk some more!

Lately the girls and I have been going on morning walks. They love to point out all the cars, trees and birds they see. As you can imagine is it quite the chat considering those are all in excess in our daily walk!
Peek-a-boo, I see you!
That is my precious red headed face, I love this smile!
Take us on a walk please!
Do you see this goof ball above? During her nap, instead of napping, she decided to do this to her shirt... this is how I found her... I tell ya, it's just shenanigan after shenanigan around here!

Picnic Lunch

Sometimes you gotta break up the day with a little picnic outside. All you other stay at home mom's know what I mean... the days tend to run together if you don't change it up a little, so this day we ate outside.. and it was good!
This baby ate the middle out of all her Jelly sandwiches, she drove me nuts!
Priceless... jelly all over the face... then she wanted to "Wash hands please?"

Easter Egg Hunt & Easter Day

For starters I love to decorate for each holiday, I'm pretty crazy, right down to now I'm into buying the cookie cutters and making sandwiches for the girls in the shape of whatever cookie cutter I have for the coordinating holiday... crazy right? I know, but I think kids like this kinda stuff and gotta have fun little traditions right? :)
Ava loved this purple bunny, this was right before we went to church, she didn't care about her new pairs of shoes or her bubbles or her goldfished stuffed Easter Eggs, all she cared about was this stinkin bunny~!
See how happy she was about it~!
Kept giving it hugs
Now on to Ella, as you can see Ella has her cry face on... she is even making sounds for sympathy... I know you can almost hear them from looking at this picture.

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This was right in the middle of the Easter egg hung Ella found the car hidden on the side, she convinced all her friends to join her.. but not Ava, she wanted to get all those eggs in HER basket... she is my child.
Here Ava is counting her eggs....
Gotta get em all~!
Ella hunts for a few and then takes a break~
Time to eat cupcakes... Thanks auntie KK for making these delicious cupcakes for Easter~!
Ella was awful concerned about the frosting on her hands.. she kept say, "wash hands?"
The girls loved blowing bubbles
Ella wanted to pop them~
here Ella is making sure she had a few eggs in her basket~
Ava learned quick to not leave her basket unattended... she needed to carry it place to place... that was the quickest way to get the eggs~

Ella


Bubbles~


Finding the Easter eggs.
Ella going to put her eggs in the basket

Ava went to all lengths to fetch her eggs~ I love these babies

We had such a great Easter, we enjoyed learning about everything and reading all the bunny books and Easter books, but most of all we thank Jesus for dying on the cross for our sins!