Easter was fun this year. We started off the day with an Easter egg hunt in the backyard. Kara immediately found her first egg and popped it open (there was a Peep inside) and got the day off to a sugar-filled start. Emily was more interested in the birds and watching Kara run around than anything else. Later in the afternoon, we headed over to Aunt Amy's house for another egg hunt and dinner. Emily was kind of getting the egg hunt thing by the end. There's always next year!
Emily is cutting her third tooth (for what seems like the fifth time), so she hasn't been sleeping very well recently. She's also battling about her 100th cold of the season, which is fun. Emily is starting to talk more recently. She now says "dog", "bye bye", "Mama", and "baby". She also developed quite a few hand signals to communicate her wishes to Mommy and Daddy. She is also developing a very bothersome habit of throwing food (which is something Kara never did). Most of the time she just drops her food or sippy cup off the side of her high chair, but occasionally she flings food pretty far. We're hoping she grows out of that one soon.
Kara recently gave a presentation to her preschool classes about herself. Mommy was able to get video of the presentation (see the videos below). Part 1 is pretty short, but Part 2 is quite long. Fair warning.
We also did an overhaul on the backyard. The grass mostly died last summer while we were in Florida, despite Lu's and Grandma and Grandpa's best efforts. We hired a company to put in a new side fence, level the yard, lay sod, and install a sprinkler system. Now we just have to upkeep! Both girls have been enjoying playing in the grass.
Some other big news is that Daddy got a new job. He is now working for Sierra Nevada on the Dream Chaser propulsion system. The job is much closer to home (it's about a 10 minute commute) and doesn't require any travelling. Let's hope the project is a success!
Kara quotes:
Mommy's hair is just black. That's not a cloud of bats, it's just Mommy's hair.
There's a boiling pot of dead skeletons in the principal's office. You do not want to go there!
Kara plays make believe and tells stories almost non-stop these days. A particularly interesting one started off with "a boy is reading a bedtime story with three, no, ten chapters. It starts with a girl named Kara drawing a picture...." then she sat down and started drawing. She continued to narrate what she was doing around the house as the chapters in the book, for quite some time. It was pretty neat to watch!
Link to pictures
And here is a link to our landscaping project pictures.
