Evening at the park...

The three of us enjoyed a nice evening at a park near our house after dinner. Paisley was tickled with this slide :)

We have lots more Easter pictures that I have yet to go through and get posted, I'll catch up soon. Everyone is busy enjoying the Spring weather. Mike's semester will be wrapping up in a month and he'll have a little break before taking one class during the Summer 1 session in June. Paisley will finish up at her school in May also and we have plans for a few summer classes and 1 camp at her new school too. Busy, busy!!

Happy Easter!

Paisley has enjoyed 4 easter egg hunts this year, what a week it's been! On Sunday, March 27th, our neighborhood HOA had a great hunt and Easter event at our neighborhood park - complete with petting zoo and all. I'll post pictures from that event soon, I'm kinda working backwards.

On Monday, Paisley's class had their own hunt, and then Paisley hunted eggs with Grandma and Grandma Fay on Wednesday. The pictures below are from our picnic and fun afternoon at our church yesterday. There was a huge area of egg hunting, and Paisley squeeked in with the 2 & under crowd and had a blast. There were also 6 different bounce houses set up & Paisley visited all of them, several times...

Paisley has really enjoyed the events surrounding Easter this year - what a difference a year makes at this age! This morning, the easter bunny left Paisley a basket full of treats, most of which were Clifford related.

When Mike and I woke up, Paisley was already awake, reading books in bed (a frequent practice for her). We went in to check on her & found that she took all of her new Clifford books out of her easter basket and took them back to bed to read. Nevermind about all the candy, etc. :)

We all got dressed and headed to church to celebrate that HE IS RISEN! It's been a great Easter.

Happy Easter everyone!

ABCs

Paisley is doing well with her ABCs... We caught her practicing today on video.



She's still a little unsure of the K L M N O part. And at the end, when the song says "Now I know my ABC's"... Paisley says "Now MY know my ABCs". Funny stuff.

Notice the Clifford books on the ground. She's OBSESSED. And when I say obsessed, I mean it to the fullest extent possible. She's now accumulated, with the help of her parents and grandparents, 4 Clifford stuffed dogs, countless books (must be up to 20 or 30 now), just about every library book that involves Clifford that we can check out at any one time, and plenty of Clifford episodes recorded on the DVR at home. I need to gather all of the Clifford stuff and get a picture of her with it.

Clifford comes on PBS kids at 8 AM and 3 PM every day. On the days that it is possible, her schedule HAS to include the watching of these episodes. Any other time of the day, we read Clifford books over and over again. She's even gone so far as to ONLY use the RED crayon when coloring, because, well duh, that's Clifford's color.

As I mentioned, she's learning her letters, etc. She knows that mommy's name starts with a C and she also knows that Clifford starts with a C. Sometimes she gets very confused because she can't figure out how Clifford and mommy can share the same letter.

I think this is the start of something that could potentially turn into the type of obsession her Dad suffers from with Star Wars. I might need to direct her efforts toward other things soon to save myself from the craziness later in life. :)

Short video of the snow activities...

Snow Day!

Well, it is a snowing. Paisley, Cassie, and I decided to get out in the front yard and enjoy the snow a little by building a snowman! We got about 8 inches- probably the most I've ever seen here. Paisley did help a little, but mostly she was interested in eating snow- she is just 2 ya know.

Valentine's Day Prep

Making some yummy heart-shaped sugar cookies to celebrate Valentine's Day! Paisley enjoyed helping, eating the dough, and making a crazy mess.

I think she was getting a little bored.

But, alas, her mood quickly changes.

Here's some of the finished product.

Potty Training...

It hasn't been going well so far, probably because we haven't been very consistent with our efforts. But, tonight, Paisley went potty on the big girl potty. Praise God, even if it is a small miracle. For reference in terms of "baby book" type milestones, she's just over 2 and a half.

Day one in what I know will be a looooong journey, but I'm proud of her! :)