aaahhhh the weekend

What would we do without weekends, no stressing to get the kids in bed by 8:00, sleeping in, I live for them and just when you think you've just about had enough. The week starts again.

This weekend was really great. Cole and Callie were so excited about the Easter Bunny. Anybody who gripes about how commercial Easter has become and how it seems like the 2nd Christmas just needed to be up in Cole's room the night before Easter. Seriously how many years do you really have once they get it and our excited about it until they figure it out.

Cole had snuck down for the second time the night before Easter to find Shane and I watching TV, when I took him back to bed he said, "Mom! the Easter bunny will not come until we are all in our bed...what does Dad think that it is the night before St. Patricks day?" (actually honey no it is just March madness)

They had so much fun coloring eggs and they wrote a note to the Easter bunny I asked them if we should leave the eggs out for the Easter Bunny and Cole said no lets just tell him they are in the fridge.

Callie is talking so much and the things she says are hilarious! It is like being a mom for the first time all over again, because we didn't experience the toddler years like this with Cole. When I get her up in the morning and ask her if she had a good sleep she says, "yes, you're right I did." Everything is so exciting to her! Her babysitter Shauna says if we could all have just a smidgen of her enthusiasm for life we'd be set.

The true meaning of Easter

So ever since Christmas Cole thinks that every holiday a guy dressed up as something brings us gifts. He kept asking what the "Valentine Guy" would be bringing us and where do we mail the Easter bunny our list of what we want. So I decided to try to explain to him what we celebrate on Easter. So I told him, "you know how on Christmas we celebrate Jesus' birthday well on Easter we celebrate that Jesus came back alive..." to which he responded, "Jesus is coming back alive on Easter!" (uh oh) "No honey, Jesus came back alive a long time ago it is called being resurrected." (cole responds) "okay so Jesus dies on St. Patrick's day and comes back alive on Easter?" ....."Nevermind honey the Easter bunny comes on Easter"

The secret mission

So last night I was thrilled when at 8:00 both kids were in bed and Shane was at young mens, and it was just me in the quiet. Until I heard footsteps upstairs at first I thought I had just imagined it but it happened a couple of times. When I went upstairs to investigate there was no one in Cole's bed and the stool that is at the landing at the top of the stairs was missing. I then went into Callie's room and found Cole standing on the four legged pedastol stool at Callie's crib attempting to pick her up out of her crib as she was laughing. When I put a stop and returned everyone to there beds I asked Cole what he was doing and he said he was planning a secret mission to sneak Callie and he out and go downstairs to watch an episode of Wow Wow Wubzy without me knowing. I loved it!