A Little of Everything

Garbage trucks are worth climbing for. 

He’s either reading or painting by 7am. I mean, why waste time? Or let me drink my coffee first?

Michelle brought me Polish pottery as an early birthday present! 

If he sees the ear muffs, he MUST wear the ear muffs. 

Getting some OT in. Working on balance, body awareness, motor planning, etc. 

Playing with a friend who will be in Augustine’s class next year. They had a lot of fun together. 

And Lewis played with the dog. The whole time. 

Holes

“Once upon a time there was a place where it never rained. The end.” -Holes

The boys have a big project going on the mud area. Nine holes. Rain catchers. Rain paths. The goal is to engineer rain  water into the holes until they are full. It has yet to rain enough. 

Nope. Wasn’t a school assignment. Yep. Totally counting it as school time. 

“I’ll be in the mud are working on the holes” is my favorite thing to hear right now. 

Big Kid

My first baby is getting so grown up. 





I really like that time at the end of the day when it’s just he, Logan, and I. 

Elias’ Laws

Elias informed me that he decided to make some laws. 

1. Everybody has to eat ice cream.

2. Levi has to be cute.

3. Everyone has to drink through a straw. 

4. You have to not have a baby bite you because you’ll get hurt. And it hurts like heck.

Simple Pleasures

All this boy needs is a pair of his very own headphones and he’s happy. 

He can listen to his Wonderbooks from the library 100x and the rest of us are happy not to. 

He listened all afternoon on Easter.  (He sticks the iPod in the headphones because it looks like he’s a dispatcher.) He walked around dancing...

he cuddled on laps...

he made a cozy spot on the chair...

he stretched out on the bench...
he jotted down some notes...

and he got some art work done.  I had to convince him that wearing them to bed was a safety issue.

Happy Easter!

Filling Easter baskets is just as fun as filling stockings at Christmas. I much prefer getting them something they have on their wish list as opposed to a ton of candy. 

Everyone was up bright and early bursting with excitement...except for Lewis. Lewis always sleeps in. Augustine got new headphones and a Mini Perplexus maze. 

He emerged eventually. Lewis wanted a bug vacuum for Christmas, but I told him to consider how many bugs would be around in the winter. He thought it would be more fun to wait until Easter. I jumped when a spider crawled out of the CD folder as I was preparing to fill Elias’ iPod, and Lewis vacuumed it right up!

Levi got bubbles and chocolate bunny crackers. He probably ate half a box today...oops.  He’s living his best life despite 8 food allergies. 

Elias has been wanting his own headphones and (knock off) iPod. His big brothers both have one and he’s old enough now to notice. We loaded it up with songs from my old CDs and he was a happy 90s music camper. 

I didn’t get a picture, but Grandma Kathleen gave each boy some candy, a little notebook, and a spray bottle. They LOVE spray bottles and played with them for hours. 

The boys also like the idea of Kinder Eggs. They are always equal parts excited and disappointed. The candy is so good and the toy is always *almost* fun. 



G&G invited us over for snack and a very fun egg hunt.

Coins and candy are very exciting to find!.

They each got about $1 in coins, and Lewis was so pleased with how easy it was to make that dollar!

So. Many. Chocolate. Bunny. Crackers. 

Holy Saturday

We tried a new technique of dying eggs this year and it was fun. The eggs turned out great. 

Whipped cream swirled with food coloring. Soak eggs in vinegar for 2 minutes, pat them dry. Roll the eggs in the whipped cream and let them sit for 10 minutes. Rinse. Dry. 







Last year we made Swiss Easter bread. This year we tried our hand at Italian Easter bread. The loaves didn’t hold their shape, which is the same problem I had last year, but last year I didn’t know that bread flour was a thing. This year my head just wasn’t in the game and I used all purpose. Oops. 





It does taste good, but I think we’re still searching for our favorite Easter bread. 

Augustine spent the afternoon making Croatian nut bread with Grandma Susan. It’s a nice bake.

We spent some time outside, watched a movie, and ended the day with a family walk. Elias loves that the ants are making hills and he can watch them work.