April Favorites

Here we go: my favorite Instagram and Project Life pictures for April.

 

Both Tyler and Kyle did the Easter coloring contest this year for Wray's grocery store. Sadly neither won, although Tyler does have a history of winning.

Tyler put two birthday gift cards together and bought this Minecraft Lego set from Toys R Us.

Arrrrrr! Hands off my coffee cake!

And just to break up the pirate eye. This face.

April 2nd was World Autism Awareness Day and Tyler and I were wearing blue for the cause.

 

Story time. I love how Tyler is trying to read a book to himself while I read out loud to him. Not really. I made him put it away. What I really love is how the cat always sits front and center when I read. 

♥ Carmelita ♥

 

Also this month I got a new phone. A Samsung galaxy S6 and the front facing camera has a nice high resolution. Yay! Here's to better Project Life pictures because I use the camera on my phone almost exclusively. Plus it's voice activated, so all you have to say is cheese, capture, shoot, or smile and it takes the picture without having to press any buttons.

It's also National Poetry Month and the library has a cute creation station set up in the window of the children's section with all kinds of words to use to make small poems.

 

Here's what we left in the window: The cat comes to story time. Not so much a poem as a true statement.

In the grocery store Tyler was trying to teach Kyle how to do a pirate eye. "Nope! You closed both eyes!".

The boys playing with Kyle's power wheels truck.

 

And my favorite outfits for April....or what turns out to be the only three I took pictures of this month.



Easter Festivities

When I went to the parent/teacher conference (the last of Tyler's elementary years..gah!) right before spring break, Mrs. James was telling me about the other girl in her class that shares the same birthday as Tyler and how her parents decided to change her name to Lily at the last minute because she was born so close to Easter. I honestly have no memory of that Easter, but when I looked it up on the calendar I saw that it had been on the 27th that year...two days before Tyler was born. And as the years have passed, Easter has bounced around, but has never landed on his birthday. Until Tyler turns 38 in 2043, when Easter and his birthday will fall on the same day. Luckily I won't have to worry about planning birthday parties anymore by then.

 

This year Easter landed one week after Tyler's birthday, which was also the last day of spring break before heading back to school. I thought we'd have all kinds of time to dye eggs, but somehow it got put off until the night before.

 

I bought two different egg dying kits this year. A traditional kit with color tablets that you dissolve in water and another kit that had liquid paint and mini rollers, which I thought would work better for Kyle. Turns out traditional is the way to go. The liquid paint and roller situation was super messy and the paint stayed wet and tacky on the eggs. Kyle actually preferred the traditional method, so I'll just stick with that kit in the future.

Early morning delivery from the Easter bunny.

Then an egg hunt in the afternoon.

My absolute favorite plant in our backyard is the King Arthur when it's in full bloom in the spring, so of course I had everyone gather in front of it for pictures.
 

 

For dinner we had ham with the usual sides and I made some carrot cake cupcakes for dessert. The ones with buttered popcorn jelly beans on top were mine...obviously. Yum!