Friday's light itinerary included playing in the backyard. This was followed by a play date with Gina and Atticus at the Mountlake Terrace pool where they had open swim and then an Easter Egg Hunt in the pool. The kids loved all the pool toys that were out during the open swim. The favorite was floating mats that stretched across the pool that they could walk on and then jump into the water. I could not keep them off it even though it required McKenzie to jump 2 plus feet from the edge of the pool to get onto the mat. My children are destined for extreme sports and I'll be along for the ride, holding my breath all the way.
Here's McKenzie preparing to gather the eggs from the pool. Such a fun activity for the kids!
Ben preparing for his favorite pool activity - jump!
After swimming we all came back to our house and met up with more friends, Rachel, Keaton and Katie and Cody for a pizza and cookie making party. In total we had five kids three and under with four of them boys! We sure did have some fun but I also learned some lessons like don't bother picking up before a play date and to have premade food so I could concentrate on the fun. We started off with some treats for our friends just in case there was any doubt that we weren't going to get enough sweets over the weekend.
Here's the crew minus Keaton who McKenzie insisted on holding as much as possible. Cody is 2, Atticus will be 3 in May, McKenzie will be 4 in June and Ben is 2. Ben is only 25 days younger than Cody and might possibly be 25 pounds lighter. These two are complete opposites in size but very similar in their sweet personalities.
McKenzie and her favorite little guy Keaton. She was holding him and told Rachel that she could babysit. She is 3 going on 16, I guess!
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| Photo Courtesy of Gina |
Ben was so excited to have friends over to play in his room that he got a bit out of control and turned into "The Dumper"and his friends barely made it out alive after he dumped two huge bins of Legos and GeoTraxs on them.
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| Photo Courtesy of Gina |
McKenzie practicing pumping by herself on the swing. This is such a happy day for a Mom when your child starts to do things on their own. Especially if you have to run across the playground to catch your other child who is trying to jump off of various parts of the playground equipment.
Ben climbing everything he could find then yelling for me to "Look" and 'asking "Jump?"
After lunch and naps we headed out again to meet up with our friend Kim and her dog Muki to play some ball. These two can't get enough of Muki and luckily for them she's handles all the attention very well.
Another good night of sleep after all that fun in the sun and then it was Easter morning! The Easter Bunny hid eggs all over our house starting on the stairs. Here's the kids opening and eating their eggs as they found them.
McKenzie finding the Easter Baskets. I couldn't believe it took them so long to find them. They were sitting on the dining room table.
After we found the baskets we got dressed and headed out for Yakima to visit Great Grandpa Z with the rest of the family. Here's McKenzie, cousin Claire and Ben ready for the egg hunt!
Too cute McKenzie with her basket of eggs.
Little man trying to shake an egg out of a tree since he couldn't reach. He tried everything to get that egg out, shaking, climbing, jumping finally his sister came and got it down for him - so sweet!
2 comments:
Based on the amount of activites and sweets I think Easter is the new Christmas. But, I love every minute of it.
Also, I can't get enough of Kenzie at the pool. Look out Mom, it's going to be a wild ride.
Wow!! You guys did have a packed weekend! I'm tired just thinking about doing all that stuff with two little kids!
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