Easter Cake

Not much going on really today. Max helped me make and decorate this cake for Easter Sunday. He's got a full chicken pinata (well, full of raisins, goldfish and granola bars, but still...). We have easter eggs with PlayDough and some candy ready to hide for him. He already found one of his Cars toys and opened it before I had a chance to see what he was doing. But, we have some moon sand and some sidewalk chalk too. The Easter Bunny is going to find us at grandma and grandpa's house this year. Happy Easter!

Tinkerbell???

Yes, yes, yes...Max is wearing a tutu (a/k/a Tinkerbell costume). We played at Victoria's house today and while he was hesitant about the tutu, he did put it on...okay, it took an Oreo bribe but now I have blackmail!

Duck Pond

Yesterday, Brenda invited Max and I to join her and Victoria at the duck pond to feed the ducks and have a picnic. The weather couldn't have been better. Our two munchkins played so well together and fed the ducks. They ate their sandwhiches like champs and ran around the cow statues and played ring-around-the-rosie. At one point, they even said they wanted to go night-night and laid down on the steps of the pond. We are going to meet them at the park in a few minutes for another gorgeous day!

Black Eyed Peas

I was fortunate enough to get to go to Dallas a few weeks ago to see the Black Eyed Peas in concert. Was a very entertaining concert indeed! The show was great and we had pretty awesome seats. Fergie came out and sang some of her own stuff too. Just a lot of fun to jump around and dance. I picked some stupid shoes to wear and by the time we got in the cab to go back to the hotel I was barefoot, but totallly worth it. Here are a few of the pictures we got. (well, I'm having technical difficulties with loading pictures...check back in a bit!)

Easter Egg Fun

Victoria and Brenda came over this morning to dye some Easter eggs and play. Victoria of course used the Cinderella stickers and Max went with Toy Story. Max was more interested in dipping his finger in each different tub of colored water and tasting it whereas Victoria would get it on her hands and then wipe it off. He toggled between Bugs Bunny cartoons, eggs and trying to re-dress Victoria's little Cinderella doll (well, he would take the clothes off and then I'd have to put them back on). They had a good time today. We miss not seeing them at swim class every week so it was fun having them over today.

Water Safety

This week begins water safety week at Max's swim class. Today they worked on life jackets and proper entry/exit from a boat and learned that it's not okay to jump in and try to "save" someone who is in trouble. They are supposed to throw something to the victim and then run and get a grown up and say "Help. Help. I need help." Max did it pefect the first time through. Then it was time for the mom's to come inside and watch. It was his turn and this is the event:

Ms. Ashleigh "Ok Max. Help me. I need help."

Max - no words, just jumps in, realized it was wrong and made a bee-line for the wall, got out and tried again. Manages to throw his lifejacket to her, gets up and runs to me and says "Okay. Can I have my toy now."

Mom: "What do you say first?"

Max: "Please may I have my toy now?"

He did have to do it all over again and on attempt number 3, he got it all right. Threw his lifejacket to Ms. Ashleigh and then ran to me and said the magic words: "Help. Help. I need help."

Easter Egg Hunt

We spent some of the morning yesterday playing with my MOPS group and their kiddos at the park. We ended with an Easter Egg hunt for the kids. Max only came away with 2eggs but his consolation prize was the big sugar cookie with blue frosting. He had a great time trying to climb in the trees and the rock wall.