Journey to Parenthood

Saturday, April 14, 2012

A little trip to the Science Center

I LOVE that our kids EARN things, and when they do they pick educational activities, like trips to the Science center as

their prize!

Sunday, April 8, 2012

It's Easter!

The Easter bunny hopped on over to our house to leave little Easter eggs all done the hall....FILLED with M&M's

The led in a path ALL the way to the Easter Baskets, which were hidden in plain sight.

Next year, I HOPE the Easter bunny hides the baskets, that is one of my fondest memories of being a child was wandering the house aimlessly searching for my Easter basket. I hope my little ones are able to do that, and remember it always, I as will.

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Easter Apple Hunt

We took the trip up to Middlefield's Lyman Orchards for the Annual Apple Hunt. Generally we choose this event over the other "hunts" because of the healthy treats we receive ALL the apples we find AND try to select apples with stickers in order to win prizes.

Here is Katrina wandering around the field, AFTER finding her SIX apples (all by herself).

Jonathan was our little CHAMPION apple hunter. Not only did he find a LOT of apples, roughly 6 lbs, BUT he also gave many, many, many apples away to other children who he thought were sad or didn't find any apples. SO PROUD of him!

Friday, April 6, 2012

Going to visit the Easter Bunny

This year we took the trip over to the park and rec's Easter Village to meet the Easter Bunny with R.J, Dani and KK.

Jonathan's and Katrina's FIRST visit to the Easter Bunny. I think I speak for both Matt and myself when I say that I feel like we dropped the ball A TINY bit, in that it was the first visit for both of them at ages 4 & nearly 2.
Although, part of me is happy we kept the "commercialism" out of the holiday for as long as we were able to. It seems that over the last few years, since Jonathan was born really, that we (our entire families included), have gone a bit crazy over these kids on the holidays, so it is incredible ironic that they take the first trip to see the commercialized part of the holiday in the same year that Matt and I decide to start scaling it down.
We don't want to take the joy out, or the fun out, our make our kids MISS anything, we just want them to appreciate what they have and how hard we have to work to provide it for them.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

We MUST rest

I am STILL not giving up on the nap-time for Jonathan. I feel he STILL needs AT LEAST 20-45 minutes to close his eyes and rest DAILY. BUT, ALAS, it is ALWAYS a fight I do NOT want to have... And so, I give him a few books put him in bed and tell him he MUST lie down, read and TRY to rest.
He seems to ONLY fall asleep on Karate days...
Can you guess what today was?

He happened to be napping inside one of our pillow-cases. Not quite sure how that happened.

Monday, April 2, 2012

My little helper

Trina and I spent the day being lazy and making treats.
FIRST up, Rice Crispy Treats - Usually a strange big fail for me. I don't know how I can continually fail and merely melting butter with marshmallow and then mixing with cereal, but I manage. When ever its easy, its usually not going to work out in this house. We PREFER things to be difficult.